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Protect the Sacred - Honoring Ceremony by Chief Rueben George & Chief Darrell Bob

Honoring Ceremony by Chief Rueben George and Chief Darrell Bob
Gathering to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects, January 23 - 25, 2013
Ihanktonwan Territory, South Dakota


A CALL FOR UNPRECEDENTED UNIFED ACTION TO PROTECT MOTHER EARTH

At the Gathering to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects, we joined in solidarity and unprecedented unity and:

• Honored all Indigenous First Nations, Tribes, Allies, and the Enduring Unity of the Oceti Sakowin, the Great Sioux Nation, and commemorated and honored the 150th Anniversary and reaffirmed the January 23, 1863 Peace Treaty between the Ihanktonwan and Pawnee Nations that was witnessed by the Ponca Nation and the United States Government. This Treaty has never been broken for more than 150 years.

• Notified President Obama and the U.S. Government that the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline would be a further grave abrogation of the January 23, 1863 Treaty and possibly other related treaties and would have very regrettable consequences. For instance, on December 21st 2012 by Resolution, the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council also stated they were "vehemently opposed to the construction of the TransCanada/Keystone XL Pipeline Project on any Aboriginal or Treaty lands."

• Held a Ceremonial Grand Council to Affirm a Unifying International Treaty between Indigenous Peoples and All Our Allies Who Seek to Protect the Sacred from the Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline. This International Treaty builds upon the Save the Fraser River Declaration, Rights of Mother Earth Accord, Indigenous Leaders Spiritual Declaration, the Sixteen Guiding Principles for Building a Harmonious World, the Coastal First Nations Declaration, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

• Built the Foundation for a Spiritually-Grounded, Principle-Centered Interdependent Campaign for Unprecedented Unified Action to Protect Our Sacred Mother Earth.

JOIN AN UNPRECEDENTED CALL FOR UNIFIED ACTION TO PROTECT SACRED MOTHER EARTH - SIGN UP AT WWW.PROTECTTHESACRED.ORG

Links

Protect the Sacred
http://www.protectthesacred.org

Four Worlds International Institute
http://www.fwii.net

Some Day Fire Productions
http://www.somedayfire.org
http://www.youtube.com/somedayfire

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Comment by Sister Rosemarie Stevens on February 16, 2013 at 11:01am

Remembering with gratitude my time and ceremony with the Tekakwitha Conference there in Washington and visit to your people and Long House and grand salmon feast you served all 1600 of us from all over the U.S. as well as the ceremonies and teachings of so many wise elders.  Honoring with you these great chiefs and spiritual elders, Leonard Crowdog and all the ancestors.  Joining my prayers to yours in the Tar Sands effort... Blessings

Comment by Fritz Kuehn on February 16, 2013 at 7:23am

Brings tears to my eyes to see my friend Rueben honoring our great Sundance Chief and spiritual leader Leonard Crowdog once again in ceremony. It is good to see all these leaders here united and supporting one another. 

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