By Brenda Norrell
Indigenous Peoples are under assault throughout the Americas, with represssive police actions of Mohawks in Canada, Lakota in South Dakota and Zapatistas in Chiapas.
Mohawks in Tyendinaga are asking for support, following the arrest of five persons defending their land on Friday. Yankton Sioux are also defending their sovereign land from an assault and occupation by South Dakota State Police. Police arrested more than a dozen people protesting a hog farm on Indian land.
Meanwhile, walkers begin the Citizens Walk for Human Dignity, from Tucson to Phoenix, on May 2, to bring attention to the racism, vigilante patrols and raids in Arizona and along the US/Mexico border.
The Longest Walk, northern and southern routes, continues as a prayer walk across America to bring attention to the defense and protection of sacred places and Mother Earth. American Indian Movement cofounder Dennis Banks and Jimbo Simmons, member of the International Indian Treaty Council, are leading the southern and northern routes. Both will be at the Kansas Capitol in Topeka on Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 10 am.
For information and updates, please go to:
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
Listen online to the Longest Walk and UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at:
http://www.earthcycles.net/
