Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Updates from 'Pe' Sla: Help Save Lakota Sioux Sacred Land!'
3 new Announcements:
-
Return the Black Hills!
(Video attached: James Anaya, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) -
Anpetu Waste! Good Day! Many people have asked us, “Well if
you don’t raise enough funds to buy the land at Pe’ Sla? What will you
do with the money?” This is an excellent question. Our main focus
continues to be purchasing the Pe’ Sla land that is being auctioned off
on August 25, 2012. Our contingency plan at this time, is to put the
funds towards purchasing and protecting other lands that may also become
available at Pe’ Sla or in the sacred Black Hills, such as near Bear
Butte, another sacred site that is threatened by ongoing development.
When someone asked me today, how would I feel if Pe’ Sla were to be bought by a developer, and destroyed, or paved with a road…. I couldn’t talk for awhile – I couldn’t speak – there was a pain in my chest, and I cried….the person on the phone thought I had hung up “Hello, Hello”. “Yes, I am here.” How I would feel? How would you feel if your whole way of life was threatened? If a place that was holy and mysterious was covered up by a parking lot? Bethlehem was an amusement park?
How would I feel if Pe’ Sla was destroyed? It would be a pain that it is difficult to describe..I suppose because I have not felt it before….. It would only be comparable to another Wounded Knee Massacre… or to having one of my relatives killed in front of me… When we say Mitakuye Oyasin..It is a prayer…it is a way of life. It is not something we just say. We are all related, and Pe’ Sla is our relative and should be treated as such! Hecetu Ye! Sara Jumping Eagle
-
The Turns Around Wacipi (Pow-Wow) Blanket Dance held this
weekend at the home of the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes in
Poplar, Montana, raised $150 towards the Fight for Pe’ Sla, sacred site
fundraising efforts! Pilamaye! Thank you! Mitakuye Oyasin – We are All
Related!
Keep our Oyate (people) in your thoughts and prayers!
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Post a Comment