A campus map can be found at: http://www.augsburg.edu/about/map.html.
The Foss Center where Winona will be presenting is #4 on the map.  Free
parking is in Lot L (by the football field).

WINONA LADUKE’S BIO
ENVIRONMENTALIST – POLITICAL ACTIVIST – WRITER

Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues
of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. She lives
and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a
two time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green
Party.  .
As Program Director of the Honor the Earth, she works nationally and
internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and
environmental justice with Indigenous communities. And in her own
community, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project,
one of the largest reservation based non profit organizations in the
country, and a leader in the issues of culturally based sustainable
development strategies, renewable energy and food systems. In this work,
she also continues national and international work to protect Indigenous
plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering.

In 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame,
recognizing her leadership and community commitment. In  1994, LaDuke
was nominated by Time magazine as one of America’s fifty most
promising leaders under forty years of age.  She has been awarded the
Thomas Merton Award in 1996, Ms.Woman of the Year ( with the Indigo
Girls in l997) , and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which in part
she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. The White Earth Land
Recovery Project has won many awards- including the prestigious  2003
International Slow Food Award for Biodiversity, recognizing the
organization’s work to protect wild rice from patenting and genetic
engineering.

A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written
extensively on Native American and environmental issues.  She is a
former board member of Greenpeace USA  and is presently an advisory
board member for the Trust for Public Lands Native Lands Program as well
as a boardmember of the Christensen Fund. The Author of five books,
including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations and a novel- Last
Standing Woman, she is widely recognized for her work on environmental
and human rights issues. .

More information about Winona and what she is involved in. . . .
http://nativeharvest.com/
http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=79
http://www.honorearth.org/aboutus/composition/staff/winona.html
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/laduke_winona.html

Videos of a couple of Winona’s lectures . . .
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5457902744333882976
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6122716298868119754&hl=en

Jennifer Simon
American Indian Student Services
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Campus Box #307
Minneapolis, MN 55454
(612) 330-1144
Fax (612) 330-1695
simonj@augsburg.edu

Jennifer Simon
American Indian Student Services
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Campus Box #307
Minneapolis, MN 55454
(612) 330-1144
Fax (612) 330-1695
simonj@augsburg.edu

11/10/2008

Request For Donations On Pine Ridge

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Organizers are looking for the following items to be donated: canned food, water, blankets, diapers (all sizes), baby formula, wood, propane, lamp oil, candles, flashlights, batteries (all sizes), matches, kerosene, gloves, toilet paper, baby wipes and soap.

If you have something to donate, you can drop items off at the Crazy Horse School in Wanblee. You can also call one of the following phone numbers for more information: 462-6784, 462-6580, 454-1452 or the Office of Economic Development in Pine Ridge at 867-5771 or 867-5600.

This year has been an extremely difficult walk for those out there honoring and remembering the ancestors.   So, please, try to show them your support.  If nothing else, please send supportive emails to waziyatawin@gmail.com

Henana

Pidamaya ye

—–Original Message—–
From: Minnesota Indian Affairs [mailto:MINN-IND@LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Waziyatawin
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:51 PM
To: MINN-IND@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Dakota Commemorative March, Please Help Circulate, updates will follow

“Manipi Hena Owasin Wicunkiksuyapi”

(“We Remember All Those Who Walked”)

Dakota Commemorative March

November 7-13, 2008

On November 7, 2008 we will begin a 150-mile journey in honor of the Dakota men, women, and children who were forcibly removed to concentration camps at Mankato and Fort Snelling in November 1862.

The Route: The march will begin at 7:00 am from the Lower Sioux Agency Interpretive Center, Redwood County Road 2.  The tentative route and schedule is provided below, but this is subject to change.  The website should be consulted for updates and changes, http://www.dakota-march.50megs.com/index.html.

November 7th: Redwood Co. Rd. 2 to 305 St., left turn onto gravel road 305^th St. (continue across Redwood Co.Rd.11. and across MN Hwy 4).  305^th St. becomes Redwood Co.Rd.8. Continue SE on Co. Rd. 8, across MN Hwy 4.  The road then becomes Brown Co.10.  Continue on Co.Rd.10 until the intersection with 290^th St.

November 8th: Leave at 7:00 am to begin march on Brown Co.Rd.10,continue to MN Hwy 29, turn left on Hwy 29, then turn left again on 210th St.(gravel road) to KC Road (gravel road).  Turn right on KC Road to Broadway (in New Ulm).  Turn right on Broadway.  Follow the curve to the left, then turn right on Minnesota Street. Continue on Minnesota St. to 20th South St.

• PM –We will have dinner at Joe Morales’ house (12627 County Road 102, Hanska, MN 56041) and then sleep at Turner Hall (1st South and State Street).

November 9th: Caravan will meet just past the turn-off onto Hwy 68 (take Highway 15/68 out of New Ulm and a left onto 68) at 7:00 a.m.  March will proceed from there, following Highway 68 toward Mankato to its intersection with Highway 169.

• PM –Evening meal and sleep site at the Centenary United Methodist Church (downtown Mankato across from Post Office)

November 10th: Caravan will meet at 7-Mile Creek Park on Highway 169 north of Mankato at 7:30 a.m.  We will continue on US Highway 169, and then take the left turn-off to MN Highway 93 all the way to Henderson.

•Marchers will be hosted in Henderson at the New Country School with meals at the Joseph R Brown Interpretive Center

November 11th: Begin march at 7:30 am in Henderson on MN highway 19 to Henderson Station Road (gravel road).  Curve to right on Scott Co.Rd.51, right on Hwy 1, then left onto Hwy 169. Continue North on US 169 to Jordan.  For lunch we’ll stop along Hwy 169 at Belle Plaine Trail (10.3 miles from Henderson).  After lunch we’ll carpool caravan through the road construction and resume walking on Hwy 169 at Emma Krumbees.  We will continue to the Jordan town sign. Hwy patrol escort.

November 12th: The march will begin at the entrance to Jordan (where we ended the evening before) and veer off to the right to go through the town of Jordon, past St. John the Baptist School on Broadway.  Continue on Co.Rd. 282, then we’ll go left onto Co.Rd.17 (Marschall Rd), then right on Co.Rd.42 to Dakotah Parkway in the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.  Continue on the road that leads to Tiowakan.  Hwy patrol escort.

November 13th: Caravan to Cub Foods parking lot at the intersection of Hwy 42 and MN Hwy 13 at 8:30 am to begin march.  We’ll follow MN Hwy 13 as it joins 169 and travel through the Savage area.  We’ll stop for lunch at the turn-off near Famous Dave’s.  After lunch, we’ll carpool caravan through the major highway intersections (across both 35W and 77 exits).  Just past the stoplight at Silver Bell Trail, we’ll resume walking on MN Hwy 13.  We’ll turn left on Mendota Heights Rd (Sibley Memorial Highway) and then turn North onto MN Hwy 55 across Mendota Bridge. Walkers continue down from the bridge into Fort Snelling State Park concentration camp site. Car caravans go across the Mendota Bridge and exit west onto MN 5,continue past the airport exit, and exit Post Road.  At the top of the exit ramp,cars turn left,across the freeway,into Fort Snelling State Park. Hwy patrol escort.

•Closing Dinner will be held at St.Peter’s Church in Mendota (1405 Highway 13, Mendota, MN 55150-0679)

Instructions for Marchers:

The Beginning of the March: The march will leave on November 7, 2008 at 7:00 a.m. from the Lower Sioux Agency Interpretive Center on Redwood County Road 2.

What to Bring: If you plan to use the accommodations we are arranging, please bring your own bedding, towel, and personal hygiene items.  We have a supply of 6″ foam mattresses available for those who wish to use them and these will be available on a first-come basis.  The mattresses will be transported from location to location by truck.

Transportation: We usually have plenty of drivers in a caravan behind the walkers, so if you need transportation to a vehicle drop-off or pick-up point, we should be able to assist you.

Meals: We have arranged for three meals a day for all of the marchers.  While we do our best to provide a balanced meal for the marchers, we cannot accommodate special diets.

Cell Phone Contacts: Waziyatawin at 320-444-5643, Gwen Griffin at 507-382-1960.  Please note that in the past our cell phones have not worked during sections of the march.  That means we may not be able to return calls until we can find a place where there is cell phone reception or when we reach our destination for the night.  Because this is a spiritual walk, we want to keep cell phone conversations to a minimum.  If you are trying to find the marchers en route, please consult the itinerary for the day and trace the course of the route described on the website.  This is usually the best way to find us.  Please only call if you have tried all other options.

We look forward to seeing you in November!

For further information, or to send donations, contact Waziyatawin at 320-564-4241 (home) or 320-444-5643 (cell) and waziyatawin@gmail.com or Gabrielle Tateyuskanskan at PO Box 183, Waubay, SD 57273, (605)947-3419.

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Jim Anderson seeks support for Day Four, September 4, 2008

My Relatives and Friends,

Last night a change in this country took place that not too long
ago many people said would never happen. An African-American was
elected to the White House and by a major landslide, which gives
him a mandate by the public to fulfill his promises. This landslide
indicates the people have placed their hope with this man they call
their president for a change in this country.

HOPE. There have been times if I can even recall what it really
means to have hope that justice is right around the corner. I’ve
been mislead and disappointed so many times that I would soon
see justice and to have it denied upon a technicality in legal
appeals. Or like what happened eight years ago. Everyone placed
their hope and trust with a couple named Bill and Hillary, but we
were betrayed at the last minute. I know that many of my friends,
family and supporters were crushed. I began to feel the weight
and pressure of a lifetime being unjustly imprisoned began to
crowd me into a corner of my cell and then in my mind. But, it
was this thing that has been our battle cry for so many years,
“In the Spirit of Crazy Horse”. I remembered what he stood for and
remained a warrior until his last breath. It is a strength that we
stand upon when we are right. We were right to be in Oglala and we
were right to be prepared to defend ourselves. What wasn’t right is
that a jury never got to hear any of this testimony, and the rest
of the trial was a product of the fabrication and then manipulation
of the FBI. This spirit of Crazy Horse is a spirit of being in total
resistance to the wrongs perpetuated towards your people, community,
family and yourself. Some of us called it outrage, but that is just
merely an emotion without resolving the issue. It is when we make
a conscious choice to try and balance the wrongs in this society
that we are being compelled by this spirit of resistance to stand
in defense of the wronged.

That spirit cannot be conquered, and I refused to submit and give in
when it appeared there may be no hope. It was because of the letters
of support and encouragement from so many people that I continued
on for another eight years. And now people seem to feel there is
a change blowing in the wind and that the election of Obama is a
manifestation of that change.

I sincerely hope so, because I am now 64 years old and coming up
on my 33 year of being confined and fighting for justice and my
freedom, Obama may be my last chance at securing my freedom. If
there is one thing I learned from earlier campaigns on my clemency is
that he won’t just be able to do it by himself. He is going to need
your support in the form of public opinion on the case. That isn’t
going to happen until we can create education and awareness on the
circumstances of my case across this country and send letters. Be
a Branch Support Group to help create public opinion. My case
has to be a national issue on justice denied, it may sound easy,
but it isn’t. The FBI has been an opposing force in attempting to
discredit my cause and that of Native people since they focused
their attention on the American Indian Movement in the 1970′s. When
it appeared that Clinton might actually grant clemency, the agents
went and demonstrated at the White House and utilized their resources
to create doubt in the mind of Clinton.

So in the national awareness goals of the branch support groups it is
going to be your challenge to keep the public interest focused. It
is also another hope that with a whole generation of people who
were born after my wrongful conviction that there will be a renewed
source of energy and actions.

One point that I would like everyone to focus on right now is a
“30 year law” regarding my sentence and parole. At the time I was
convicted, the guidelines said:

“Any prisoner, .shall be released on parole. after serving thirty
years of each consecutive term or terms of more than forty-five years
including any life term, whichever is earlier: Provided, however,
That the Commission shall not release such prisoner if it determines
that he has seriously or frequently violated institution rules and
regulations or that there is a reasonable probability that he will
commit any Federal, State, or local crime.” 28 U.S.C. section 28
U.S.C.  4206(d)

I’ve served more than 30 years of this sentence and have been
considered a model prisoner And the likelihood of committing any
crimes is non-existent due to my age and the humanitarian work I’ve
pursued to help my people since my incarceration. According to this
law, they have to grant me a parole to my next sentence. But as we’ve
learned from the past, we cannot take anything for granted so your
letters should be focused on this law to the parole commission and
congressional leaders. If the commission complies with the letter
and spirit of this law, we will have made a significant step towards
my freedom and we will need to maintain and increase this momentum.

The Committee and I have been discussing several ideas and projects
to make this a pro-active campaign. We are currently rebuilding the
former LPSG’s into LPBSG’s. This is necessary due to a breakdown
with the former Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. I had to turn
to my sister and niece to help me rebuild my defense committee
from scratch. We had no files, records, and merchandise. We have
not been able to make contact with the former coordinator of the
LPDC. We are still hoping to resolve this issue, but until then we
needed to keep moving with the campaign.

We still need all of our former contacts and supporters to reconnect
with us and to update the information so that my Committee can
handle correspondence and contributions. We need everyone who has
supported me to contact the LPDOC and sign onto our listserv so
that you can be updated with information on progress or activities
needed in my campaign.

I will need everyone to work with my Committee and clear any action
with the appropriate people within the Committee. It is important
that we all work together cohesively, instead of scattering our
efforts or resources. We do not intend to discourage ideas or
creativity, but we would like to incorporate such ideas into a
unified larger effort and not act prematurely on some plans we may
have not disclosed due to timing or details being worked out.

Some of the projects we have discussed are conducting rides, walks,
runs and events across the country to create this awareness of my
case. We are initiating efforts to ask bands and artists to host
fundraisers in their area. We’ve talked about strategies we could
undertake to further my cause, but a lot will depend on how quickly
people come to form my BSG and start organizing in their area.

I also understand that some of us have personality issues with
other people. I hope that many of you can pray or find a way to
rise above this obstacle and work together for one common purpose. I
would like to see so many of my supporters come together in a show
of solidarity. If there really is a change in the air, we will
need each other to bring about change in so many other areas. For
me it has been about our culture and right to be who we are, but
foremost it has been the children and the next generation. WE were
supposed to leave a better world behind for them and how much have we
accomplished? I know that somehow and someway my sacrifice will not
be in vain and that the years I’ve endured this pain of loneliness
and suffering in confinement will make a better world for those
children and coming generations. That along with my freedom is my
hope, but I will not be able to fulfill it without you. So take a
few minutes and educate yourself on the injustices of my case. It may
shock and outrage you, but you can do something about it, so join us.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,

Leonard Peltier

Subject: Michael Moore’s comments

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Friends,

Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair.

In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea. The racists were present throughout the campaign and in the voting booth. But they are no longer the majority, and we will see their flame of hate fizzle out in our lifetime.

There was another important “first” last night. Never before in our history has an avowed anti-war candidate been elected president during a time of war. I hope President-elect Obama remembers that as he considers expanding the war in Afghanistan. The faith we now have will be lost if he forgets the main issue on which he beat his fellow Dems in the primaries and then a great war hero in the general election: The people of America are tired of war. Sick and tired. And their voice was loud and clear yesterday.

It’s been an inexcusable 44 years since a Democrat running for president has received even just 51% of the vote. That’s because most Americans haven’t really liked the Democrats. They see them as rarely having the guts to get the job done or stand up for the working people they say they support. Well, here’s their chance. It has been handed to them, via the voting public, in the form of a man who is not a party hack, not a set-for-life Beltway bureaucrat. Will he now become one of them, or will he force them to be more like him? We pray for the latter.

But today we celebrate this triumph of decency over personal attack, of peace over war, of intelligence over a belief that Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs just 6,000 years ago. What will it be like to have a smart president? Science, banished for eight years, will return. Imagine supporting our country’s greatest minds as they seek to cure illness, discover new forms of energy, and work to save the planet. I know, pinch me.

We may, just possibly, also see a time of refreshing openness, enlightenment and creativity. The arts and the artists will not be seen as the enemy.

Perhaps art will be explored in order to discover the greater truths. When FDR was ushered in with his landslide in 1932, what followed was Frank Capra and Preston Sturgis, Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange and Orson Welles. All week long I have been inundated with media asking me, “gee, Mike, what will you do now that Bush is gone?” Are they kidding? What will it be like to work and create in an environment that nurtures and supports film and the arts, science and invention, and the freedom to be whatever you want to be? Watch a thousand flowers bloom! We’ve entered a new era, and if I could sum up our collective first thought of this new era, it is this: Anything Is Possible.

An African American has been elected President of the United States!

Anything is possible! We can wrestle our economy out of the hands of the reckless rich and return it to the people. Anything is possible! Every citizen can be guaranteed health care. Anything is possible! We can stop melting the polar ice caps. Anything is possible! Those who have committed war crimes will be brought to justice. Anything is possible.

We really don’t have much time. There is big work to do. But this is the week for all of us to revel in this great moment. Be humble about it. Do not treat the Republicans in your life the way they have treated you the past eight years. Show them the grace and goodness that Barack Obama exuded throughout the campaign. Though called every name in the book, he refused to lower himself to the gutter and sling the mud back. Can we follow his example? I know, it will be hard.

I want to thank everyone who gave of their time and resources to make this victory happen. It’s been a long road, and huge damage has been done to this great country, not to mention to many of you who have lost your jobs, gone bankrupt from medical bills, or suffered through a loved one being shipped off to Iraq. We will now work to repair this damage, and it won’t be easy.

But what a way to start! Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States. Wow. Seriously, wow.

Yours,

Michael Moore

MichaelMoore.com

MMFlint@aol.com

People on the walk need some food, if you can help, go to this website. I wll be posting more information asap.

Blizzard blasts western South Dakota
Associated Press

High wind pushed tons of early November snow into huge drifts in portions of western South Dakota as a blizzard continued an eastern trek on Thursday.

A National Weather Service observer reported 38.5 inches of snow just northeast of Deadwood in the Black Hills.

“It’s a raging blizzard out there,” said Jeff Schild, a meteorologist with the NWS office in Rapid City.

The snow came down – sideways might be a better description – at a rate of 3 inches an hour overnight. It’s slacked off to 1-2 inches an hour, Schild said late Thursday morning.

“It’s still rolling here. It’s still going on,” he said. Wind gusts of 60 mph were still being reported late Thursday morning.

More than 100 schools and businesses were closed in the region, according to a Rapid City television Web site.

Interstate 90 was closed from Murdo west to the Wyoming state line.

Other portions of Lawrence County, reported almost 2 feet of snow by midmorning Thursday.

Spearfish reported 12.5 inches of snow and drifts 6 feet high on Thursday.

In Shannon County, in the southwestern corner of the state, 20-foot snowdrifts were reported on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation early Thursday.

As for electricity, the Nebraska Public Power District said a power line running in northwest Nebraska failed late Wednesday, cutting power to Pine Ridge. Repairs have begun.

In the tiny Butte County town of Hoover, a National Weather Service observer said it was the worst blizzard she’s seen in her 32 years in the village. Six-foot drifts were blocking doorways, the observer said.

The blizzard was moving east Thursday, and safety officials predict treacherous road and weather conditions would hit the central and eastern portions of the state, prompting more road closures.

In Rapid City, streets are clogged with drifts and police report cars getting stuck all over town. Mayor Alan Hanks said that even some police vehicles were victims of the snowdrifts.

• All state offices in the Black Hills area were closed Thursday.

Reporting points near Rapid City checked in with 8 inches of snow by the middle of the morning. And downtown Rapid City reported a 78-mph wind gust late Wednesday.

Capt. Kevin Karley of the South Dakota Highway Patrol said Rapid City is socked in. “If this storm continues at its current pace, the same conditions can be anticipated across almost the entire state.”

> contact your tribal chairman to halt the enbridge clipper pipeline
> expansion through leech lake.
>
> http://energyfacilities.puc.state.mn.us/Docket.html?Id=19203
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2006/02/02/enbridge-pipeline060202.html
>
> Minnesota Opponents line up against Canadian oil pipeline
> http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/18/oilpipeline/
>
>
> Here is an information piece that IEN has on the tar sands – that
> feeds the pipeline (attached)
>
> the crude oil that flows through this pipeline is blood money at the
> expense of the Aboriginal rights of the Cree, Dene and Metis in
> northern Alberta.
>
> this pipeline flows through northern MN. leech lake is one tribe
> where this pipeline flows.
>
> call if need more info.
>
> tom g.
>
>

Dakota Concentration Camp

Fort Snelling State Park

Mni Sota Makoce

The Oceti Sakowin along with the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community hosted a Wokiksuye Wicohan – a feast of Thanks Giving – on Sunday November 2 at the Dakota Concentration Camp at Fort Snelling State Park to honor the Dakota Ancestors that were imprisoned there and eventually removed from the State.

Originally the DNR had planned to host an event featuring a white author and detailing what they called “a factual, objective account of the Internment Camp and the experiences of its inhabitants.” And said that they were ‘exploring another side of Minnesota’s Sesquicentennial commemoration’…

Upon hearing of the now cancelled event Dakota Elder Clifford Canku stated “They keep raising their own spokespersons to speak for us” and the idea was born for the Oceti Sakowin and MMDC to put on an event by and for the Dakota People.

The event was recorded by Mona Smith of Allies Media Art in conjunction with the Minnesota Humanites Center.  The speakers included Phyllis Red Day, Clifford Canku, and Mike Simon all of Sisseton; Faith Bad Moccasin and Melvin Grey Owl both of Crow Creek; Chris Mato Nunpa of Upper Sioux and Sheldon Wolf Child of Lower Sioux as well others.

All and all it was a very moving event and we know that the ancestors were pleased – they showed their appreciation through the beautiful fall day, the shared history and good feeling that was in each and every heart as we left the Concentration Camp.

Monday November 3, 2008

11:00 – till food is gone

· $5.00 Ham dinner, potatoes and gravy, peas, and cake for dessert

· $3.00 Chili and fry bread dinner

· Bake sale! Cookies, cakes, etc………..

Where: Little Earth Gym

2501 Cedar Avenue