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Reporter's Notebook: Brenda Norrell

South Dakota Police Illegally Arrest Yankton Sioux on Sovereign Land

Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 2, 2008 at 12:13 am

Police from the South Dakota State Police and Charles Mix County Sheriff's Department illegally arrested 40 Yankton peacefully protecting their sovereign land from the construction of a disease-producing large-scale hog farm in the heart of their community, one-half mile from the Yankton Head Start.

While women, children and young men stood in peaceful protest, more than 50 police patrol units arrived and sharpshooters were stationed on a rooftop.

The people of Iowa became ill from the poisonous gasses emitted from crowded corporate hogfarms. Now, Long View Farms of Hull, Iowa, is acting in disregard for federal, state and tribal law, with the backing of the Sheriff's Department and South Dakota State Police. Long View Farms has speeded up construction at the site, in violation of a tribal court order and in disregard for all federal and environmental laws.

Watch the video of the arrests, listen to the interviews and support the Yankton defending their land at the site, located on the main highway to the Yankton Indian Nation headquarters.

New video from Yankton protecting sovereign land


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8199688675421229154&q=Oyate+Duta+Awa+Yankapo&ei=mSMaSIOPB4SY-wHyqdi-AQ
Listen to interviews from Yankton, Longest Walk Talk Radio:
Earthcycles on the web (Yankton 5-01 and 4-30)
http://www.earthcycles.net/
Photos and updates at Censored News:
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

About Brenda Norrell

Personal Website
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

Biography

Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 27 years. She is currently based in Tucson and covers Mexico, the U.S. borders and the West, focusing on Indigenous Peoples and human rights. She cohosted the five-month Longest Walk talk radio across America, with American Indians walking for sacred Mother Earth and publishes Censored News.

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