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What Does Justice Look Like? Our World In Depth with Dakota Activist and Scholar Waziyatawin

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 14:43
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Waziyatawin, Dakota author and scholar of indigenous peoples’ history, describes some of the key events around the founding of the state of MN 150 years ago.  Waziyatawin shares the struggles of the Dakota people to retain their lives, land and identity and gives an indigenous perspective on the current environmental crisis. Cohosted by Eric Angell and Karen Redleaf.

 

PHOTOS: Reclaiming Sacred Dakota Land at Camp Coldwater

Submitted by bradley on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 10:30
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On September 2nd, members of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the Dakota Oyate reoccupied Coldwater Spring and the surrounding land in Minnesota. The Coldwater Spring site is an abandoned property of the United States Department of the Interior's defunct Bureau of Mines. Dakota people consider the spring as essential to their spiritual lifeway and the surrounding land as a part of their homeland of B'Dote. Dakota people believe that they will be better stewards of the land than either the United States or the State of Minnesota has been.

Formal Complaint Regarding 1858 Event at Upper Sioux Agency State Park

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 18:29
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On Saturday, August 16, 2008, Dakota people gathered at the Upper Sioux Agency State Park to challenge the park's colonialist representation of history during their celebratory event "Yellow Medicine Agency in 1858." Police arrested two Dakota women, Waziyatawin and Autumn Cavender-Wilson, charged them with disorderly conduct, and took them to Yellow Medicine County jail.

Mother, daughter taken into custody after protesting re-enactment

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 10:27
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Mother, daughter taken into custody after protesting re-enactment
By Tom Cherveny
West Central Tribune
Article Last Updated: 08/18/2008 08:19:31 AM CDT

UPPER SIOUX AGENCY STATE PARK — A mother and daughter were taken into custody when they protested a historical re-enactment at the Upper Sioux Agency State Park on Saturday.

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