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Wounded Knee History/Future

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Wounded Knee, A Wound That Won’t Heal Did the Army Attempt To Coverup the Massacre of Prisoners of War? By Richard W. Hill. Sr. Last Edit: Oct 7, 1999 Claudia Iron Hawk Sully testified that the actual numbers of Indians killed at Wounded Knee numbered 2 or 3 times than usually reported. She told of some children who were hiding in a small cave after the first attack. The soldiers discovered the cave and told the children to come out as they would not be harmed. When they did crawl out they were hacked to death with sabers. High Hawk, who witnessed this crawled back into the...

Building Sustainability Camps

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Our camps are learning intensive experiences. The first summers at Wounded Knee have thrown mainstream Americans together with Israeli nationals, Scottish, African and English nationals from different class and race backgrounds together with third generation Lakota Wounded Knee and residents. This has created a challenging and invigorating clash of cultural perspectives, heart deep relationships, hard experiences and hopeful potentialization. Sustainability education has everything to do with learning how to learn on every level of our being. In a global climate of world crisis due to...

Sustainability

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To be sustained, is to feel supported. For a community or a person to feel supported, this is to have a situation that can be truly sustained. When a persons body has food, this is to have sustenance for the body. If a community produces food for all its members, this is the group, supporting themselves in having what is required to survive. This, is support. Sustenance. Spiritual sustenance is to have a perspective so gentle and warm, so literally filled with the energy of love, that it feeds your heart, which nourishes your spirit. This is sustaining the soul with love....

Leola One Feather

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This house project is on hold until the family gains more stability or a qualified building crew steps forward to pick up where we were forced to leave off. Anna Mae is my loving two year old grand-daughter. She was born with Down Syndrome. I have witnessed many miracles in my life of now half a century. This miracle occurred for Anna Mae and happened because I really believe in the Creator. Our Lakota word for Creator is Wakan Tanka. I believe that Wakan Tanka is with me all the time, and because I believe this way, I give in this way, all my thoughts and feelings to Creator....

Pine Ridge, SD

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THE ARROGANCE OF INNOCENSE Hidden Away, Out of Sight and Out of Mind By Stephanie M. Schwartz, Freelance Writer Member, Native American Journalists Association This article may be reprinted and reproduced unedited with proper attribution and sourcing for non-profit educational, news, or archival purposes. This is an article of facts about the lives of modern-day American Indians, a topic most mainstream American news organizations will not discuss. It is not a plea for charity. It is not a promotion for non-profit organizations. It is not aimed for pity. It is not even an effort to detail...

About the Founder

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Johanna Parry Cougar ~ Co-Founder of Natural Villages I was born in the Redwoods of California, close to where I live now. My mother, a teacher of English and History, was also a native of California, having received her degrees from UC Berkley. As I grew it was obvious to us that our culture had veered out of control and our natural environment was in serious danger. Knowing much of the history of my own landscape, I learned with a very deep pit- of- the- stomach horror that the greater culture was happily destroying vast regions of profound beauty in exchange for quick wealth and very...