Protect the Sacred - Idle No More Round Dance Featuring the Maza Kute Singers

Idle No More Round Dance Featuring the Maza Kute Singers
Gathering to Protect the Sacred From Tar Sands Projects, January 23rd - 25th 2013
Ihanktonwan Homelands, South Dakota
www.ProtectTheSacred.org
A Call for Unprecedented Unified Action

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.

* Round Dance Songs by the Santee Sioux Maza Kute Drum & Singers
* Treaty Signing Sacred Songs by the Haystack Butte Drum & Singers

LINKS

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

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

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