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The Dann Sisters, and the Continuing Struggle Against the Theft of Shoshone Lands |
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Written by becca
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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Mary Dann, a Western Shoshone grandmother who refused to concede her tribe's ancestral lands to the federal government, died in an accident on her ranch in Nevada on April 22, 2005. Dann, whose age was reported to be in the early 80s, and sister, Carrie, represented a decades-long land rights struggle. The Danns and other Western Shoshones say they never ceded 26 million acres promised to the tribe in an 1863 treaty.
The Danns fought against efforts to distribute a $140 million trust fund for the alleged loss of the land. They lost the battle in 2004, when President Bush signed into law a bill to hand out the money.
The sister never gave up, however, refusing to accept the government's jurisidiction over their family's land in Nevada. Carrie Dann, the more outspoken of the pair, vowed to carry on the fight. In their ongoing battle with the United States over ancestral land rights, the Western Shoshone people scored a victory in Geneva last in March 2006 before a United Nations committee on racism.
In a strongly worded finding, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, or CERD, called on the United States to halt the destructive land-use practices it has allowed on some of the 60 million acres the Western Shoshone claim as theirs until a settlement is reached on the status of that land. The area stretches across most of Nevada and parts of Idaho, Utah, and California.
Now, the tribe is engaged in a battle to halt the testing of "bunker-buster" bombs by the US Department of Defense. One of the tests proposed is code named "Divine Strake. For a wikipedia article on the test and its current status, click HERE |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 23 June 2007 )
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Seed Sovreignty in Northern New Mexico |
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Written by becca
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
A strong stance is developing in northern New Mexico in support of small and traditional farmers, and to revive and promote
traditional agricultural techniques and crops. The small farmers, the fruit growers, herb growers, and traditional
wildcrafters of NM have long been facing hardship from pressures ranging from racism and economic gentrification, to
the patenting of traditional crops by corporations, to climate change and the assault on traditional acequia systems.
Tesuque Pueblo has invested a lot of time, money and energy recently into creating a focus on traditional and alternative
agriculture, and permaculture. They're building a seed bank, and a knowledge bank in their community (and the broader
community of growers) by offering classes, developing sharing networks, and bringing speakers and people with
experience who connect this issues to others effecting our lives and the lives of future generations.
After urging by the Traditional Native American Farmers' Assosciation and others in the community, Santa Fe County
adopted a resolution supporting seed sovreignty, which can be read below.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 March 2007 )
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Written by becca
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Saturday, 17 February 2007 |
Claude Marks, co-producer and founder of The Freedom Archives will be
showing his film "Legacy of Torture" in Portland on Sunday, February 18th,
3 pm at New Born Tribe Community Center, 3525 NE MLK (at Fremont) in
Portland. Featured also are Floyd Cruse, former Minister of Information of
the Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party, and Kent Ford, former
Portland Panther and father of Patrice Lumumba Ford.
"Legacy of Torture" was produced in 2006 by The Freedom Archives to
document torture used in the interrogation of members of the Black Panther
Party in 1973. Five Party members were subpoenaed in 2005 to testify in
front of a federal grand jury, and were jailed when they refused to
cooperate. In January of this year, these five men plus three others were
seized and charged with murder. They are currently being held on bond
ranging from 3-5 million dollars.
Free the Panther 8!
For more information on how to support, visit http://cdhrsupport.org
Donations will be accepted for legal defense funds.
Presented by Portland Indymedia and The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 March 2007 )
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