dear native americans off Pine Ridge, don't give up your dreams. There are people who are thinking of you, respects you and want to help you. (not all white people are bad) But never give up your religion and habites. Deep respect and love from Belgium X
I have to keep reminding myself, “This is still an illusion, isn’t it?”
“Balance IS: The absence of excess {aggravating} stimulus! ~ and comes from truth spoken or done.” ~ “Boss”-gear
“Do not allow ‘Thwarting’ to cut ahead of you in line; to cut in front of YOUR inspiration.” ~ “Boss”-gear
"When you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing, it rests softly inside your being with no judgment, no guilt and no imbalance. You just KNOW!” ~ “Boss”-gear
You know what?The corrupted gov is going to make the ENTIRE country exactly the same soon.Who is really behind it all?I am certain of only this,it is up to each one of us to heal the Hoop of all Nations;tyranny knows no racial limits now...global genocide happens because we didn't pay attention to the alleged"least" of us all.End the division,unite under the Tree...all my tears can't return what was taken;we must make use of the lessons and unite our hearts and minds together for this generation
@MagicalOillusions We can't do what the blacks do.They give them what they want.And kill us and put our leaders in prison.Like Leonard.PeltierHe has been there for 30 years for something he did not do.They don't kill blacks,Just Indians.
@mamy101 which is exactly why native people need to come up with a good enough plan that overthrough the corrupt wrong doings. don't ever trust white people
@branni79 so what if im racist? idc we still go through white peoples bs and maybe u should learn how to spell before replying to my comment i had a hard time reading it you sounded like a fuckin monkey with autism when i read this shit
@branni79 im sorry dyslexic monkey idk why ur so upset about my comment? its not like i said "fuck branni79" or anything to upset some ignorant white person who obviously has no life just tryna start drama on the internet. I have breakfast to cook and orange juice to drink Swag. so ttyl
I fail to see how it's the government's fault that there are no jobs in your area. Start a business, move away. There's always a solution. What do you expect though, if you drop out of school? Preserving one's national identity is nice, but lacking education might have something to do with people not willing to employ you.
@JanPospisil42 Don't get me wrong, I'm a socialist and I believe the state should help those in need. But don't you feel a bit of a hypocrite? On one hand rejecting the whites and their way of life, on the other asking for money to fund your freedom. Your children have a choice not to be uneducated drunks. Talk to them, not to the people on the internet, who are far away and don't really care.
They have massive problems and being employed by those off-rez is a very small one in comparison; but it's still funny that you see this in the context of the supposed 'American Dream'.
Alcoholism is rife - after the government introduced it to keep them fighting each other; Diabetes and heart problems are a big issue - after the gov slaughtered all the game/poisoned the rivers/cut down the forests; and there is MASSIVE racism towards Natives.
i live right here in pine ridge were getting bigger n better just takes time but its a process, we as people can overcome the white like we always did .
@beone011 are you saying people decide if they want poverty? The native Americans absolutely don't have a decision, our government doesn't give them any opputunites for freedom.. There are no jobs out there for them to make money.
I am european who has been enormously interested in the culture, history and spirituality of most of Native Nations; in none other civilisation of the world, have I found such incredible wisdom, broad-mindedness, the sense of honour and honesty... I'm not able to express my feelings when I think about what this bloody state, the united states of america, has done to the Indians. When you trace this whole history, it can be compared to what the natzi germans were doing...
My native brothers choose to live this way. no natives are now forced to live on any reser vation!. They dont take care of their own as do the amish, jewish peoples,etc.... What happened to the warrior way of taking care of the people and teaching the young ones? blaming the U.S. gov is stupid and a waste of time
@beone011 you go to the reservations when you refuse to be a part of the problem any longer & you grow up there because that's where your family is. even for a lot of people who do leave.. our warriors come back all the time & help bc they're *real* men. their PLAN is to make us leave our people so we stay weak. problem is you can't break real indegnious pride & you'll never kill the sundance spirit. GO BACK TO THE REZ'S AND HELP YOUR OLD & YOUR WOUNDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! QUIT CHARGING FOR INIPI!!
@beone011 You are wrong I'm afraid; as a Native you should know that most of Indian Nations had absolutely different mentality; they were not able to fit this mainstream focused on making money, greed, calculation - so "american".. Being twice in US, I was in Ojibwe Rez, in Wisconsin. Some lakes with resorts - all belong to white americans, while Ojibwe people are pushed in one corner of the Rez, living in hopeless poverty: whites are so disgusting to take places, even within Indian rezervation
@Luilekkerlandful You are wrong - two visits to a rez makes you an expert?? I think not. money is a TOOL, money is neither good or bad, Living in poverty is a decision, blaming someone or some government in the best country in the world really is a mind/person without enough knowledge/skills to rise above ones personal situation. Living without goals or not using your power to ACT leads to misery. (life 101) it wouldnt hurt to pray to the creator for guidance also.
The genocide of American Indian individuals and First Nations is so pernicious because it is so GRADUAL. This is why I had trouble understanding why the word "genocide" was bandied about -- it sounded like an exagerration.
But, if you understand Eugenics, you'll understand that there are vested interests who regard American Indians as "human weeds." First step: Sequester and isolate. Second step: Deprive. Third step: Relocate the ambitious ones so they can't aid their own people.
(continued)...So, people will scoff at the term "genocide," because they think in sound bites and talking points.
I was always sceptical myself at the use of the word "genocide" until I read a remarkable book by Edwin Black titled "War Against the Weak." It is about the Eugenics movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
To understand the slow death of American Indian nations and people, it must be understood that this particular genocide is one of Eugenic neglect and sequestering.
When we hear the word "genocide," most people in the U.S. will think of the Nazi death camps. Fewer still will recall the planned famine in the Ukraine under communist Soviet Russia.
What has been imposed upon the Lakota people in particular and the First Nations people in general is a slow, but tenacious, form of genocide. So slow, in fact, that the biggest hurdle is convincing people that the relocation of American Indians is genocide.
forgive me if i am naive. I have strong feelings of deep upset about what the invaders of America have imposed on the original people, AND their own poor but I live in UK--far away.
First question, hasn't there been any Permaculture projects there?
oh people of the good heart.thank you 4 all your kind words.but we need your prayers.mony is always nice,but your prayers will stay with us.some times its all we can carry.pilamiyello oyete
What Indian casinos MUST start doing (in spite of facing violence from the mobsters they serve) is to SPREAD PROFITS to ALL indian tribes in the nation! And btw, the American Indian SHOULD be the workforce on forefront of GREEN wave jobs - you are the rainbow people of mother earth! The u.s. govt MUST offer these jobs to YOU as native peoples as but one way to impact your life style. Shame on U.S. for allowing such poverty on indian land. But YOU too have the answers. Become strong again! Peace
the world give the peace nobel price to people like that president of yours who is sending more troops to afganistan and keeps his ass nice and warm in the oval office, and to roosevelt who threw the atomic bombs on japan ....but nobody ever thinks about the great man that is russell means. I hope he becomes president one day ! good luck to you all.
I am white and I agree with you. Russell Means is my hero. I love listening to him speak. He is very smart and listening to him gives me a better understanding of how life should be.
@kelay2004 Dang you need another hero! He beat his elderly father in law on the Navajo reservation while with a navajo women! don't believe all the bullshit.
my feelings goes to all of u,i will go all the way from norway and come to give what i can in both things and support,my mom was there this year and im joining next time
Loved watching the two girls walk away at 4:49 they will be your next Doctors lawyers. Stay up Pine Ridge, Your ancsters Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, and all other Elders are watching over you guys. The Lakota/Sioux will one day rise again.
broken spirits? look in the faces. there is hardship, true. but that doesn't eliminate spirit when it is all you have known since the arrival of the anglo. we have little...but we do not need much. the charity, while appreciated is our form of luxury. why do we need more than enough? just give us a chance to preserve our culture. we don't need your style of life. most don't want it. we have never wanted more than a chance to live. despite the best efforts of whites, we are still alive
Lakota, screw white mans education. Stay loyal to your culture and spiritulism. One day white mans politics will destroy itself and a reckoning will be forthcoming.
The U.S. government is turning on it's own people as well. It is a world of corrupt politics and greedy insane people who could not survive without comforts and know nothing of the land and it's ways.
Stay true to yourselves, your ancestors, the land and great spirit. God is in control and will renew that which was stolen
I did mission work on pine ridge in 2006 and really bonded with this girl by the name Tolia. I cant belive america claims to be such a great country when this is in its shadows I would like to create a fund that will build good quality homes that are sustainable and helth centers. it was so hard for me to live them in that living condition.
This is a beautiful video and the song very nice. Thank for it. Hope the futur of the Lakota nation can be more beautiful. I want to dedicate this song to : Wilson "Wally" Black Elk Jr and Ronald "Ron" Hard Heart. Remember 10 years ago, the June 8 1999. Bad days. I'am french but when i listen this bad day, I go to camp Justice on Pine Ridge in June 2000 to support the Lakota People. Never forgett Tom Poor Bear and the beautiful Lakota people.
I always want to help, where I live the red cross do not accept cloths or other items. They ask you to give it to the Salavation Army. I have a lot of cloths and thing that I could send if they would accept it. It is in very good shape or great shape. I would to help them out. atheina75819 :) 6/12/09
WE should all get behind programs such as the backpacks for the children to go to school with. Instead of giving clothes to red cross or st vinnies we should give it directly to the people who need it most..if our communities got together what a diffrence we could make just by giving and showing WE care. Much love from australia xox
thew indian fund they are supposed to recieve is stolen every year it goes down a dark hole never going where it is supposed it is not grant money but reimbursements for federal use of their resources. poverty is a state of mind once you get the housing and food issues down then you need a direction, i dont look at the film and think the poor godforsaken people.I see abueatiful landscape and things could improve immensely if not for greed of you know who.
But, I think that people need to realize that some of these families here in Pine Ridge have been living like this for generations. They choose to live like this and don't mind it.
They choose to live like this and don't mind it? That's a hell of a thing to say. I see that in your profile you are a Legislative aide. Apparently you are in or tied to tribal government, the people on Pine Ridge who do fine. It's easy to see why you say that they don't mind living "like that." If you lived like that, could you honestly say that you don't mind it?
Well actually I used to live like that. I used to live like that with other people. They don't mind. I didn't mind, I just wanted to survive. And if getting your government assistance check every two weeks for $117 a week was all I could get, then I made it work. I ate and ate and at when I got EBT. I had nothing else to do. And it was virtually free. I didn't mind.
Yes, it is a hell of a thing to say because it is a hell of a thing to SEE.
"I ate and ate and at when I got EBT." Apparently you have difficulty putting complete and coherent sentences together. You ate and you ate. Ok so what? Are you living like a king? Nice of you to downplay the extent of things. And your USED to live like that? Apparently you didn't like that lifestyle otherwise you wouldn't have a "nice apartment."
No, I'm working to the point where I'm okay knowing the fact that I'm working and not draining the government. I never claimed to have chosen to live in poverty. I just was. And I finally found a job. I'm not uneducated.
"I never claimed to have chosen to live in poverty. I just was." Precisely my point. The same applies to the people who live in the terrible conditions on Pine Ridge. They didn't choose to live in poverty either, nobody does. But look at your comment at the top of this thread. You stated "They choose to live like this." So, you didn't choose to live in poverty, but the people (your own people) chose to according to you. That doesn't make any sense. That is all that I am saying.
laziness? are you out of your mind? everything we do is hard. sitting in your living room is a fine place to be when making judgments on people and conditions you don't understand. and to make such a harsh statement in a way that infers we are given anything is beyond inhuman. it's white. the same attitude that made it okay to hand out blankets with small pox. or the systematic slaughter of women and children as a means of stopping future generations from being born. you were our quests.
Well you know, I live in Pine Ridge. I work as the legislative aide for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, I do various work/research for the president and the tribal council. I suffered and worked my way up through school and jobs. I help my people far more effective than most people around here. AND I understand them. I KNOW the people. It IS hard. YOU, least importantly, do not understand.
And now I have to leave my country as the spirits told me I have job to do elsewhere. I am about to go to the US, to one of the Lakota reservations. My skin is white but I see no diference between you and me. Mitakuye Oyas'in. I want to learn from the wisdom of the Lakota, and I would like to help you, if I can. And when one day I can return to my homeland, I will bring what I have learned back with myself. Many white man would understand the natives, they just can't hear your voice.
You are not alone. I am Storm, from Hungary, Europe. Hungarians were once very similar to native americans. And now my country is about to being totally destroyed by the corruption of politics. The quality of our life drops from day to day and our chance to survive is decrasing. You will also not see this in the media. REAL hungarians are now rare in Hungary. Our Government is made out of criminals who live fat and well from our money while we live worse and worse.
They don't want the rest of the world to know that in the middle of the United States is a place that is in most cases worst than a third world country it would expose the corruption in the White mans government and the BIA who in some case is a puppet for the White mans government plus many don't want to know they to worried about their fine homes and cars to actually care about the First Nations peoples
the feds are doing what they have always done broke treatys and lie to the native americans you never see this on main stream tv the owners of the country would not allow it
dear native americans off Pine Ridge, don't give up your dreams. There are people who are thinking of you, respects you and want to help you. (not all white people are bad) But never give up your religion and habites. Deep respect and love from Belgium X
dromer78 1 week ago
I have to keep reminding myself, “This is still an illusion, isn’t it?”
“Balance IS: The absence of excess {aggravating} stimulus! ~ and comes from truth spoken or done.” ~ “Boss”-gear
“Do not allow ‘Thwarting’ to cut ahead of you in line; to cut in front of YOUR inspiration.” ~ “Boss”-gear
"When you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing, it rests softly inside your being with no judgment, no guilt and no imbalance. You just KNOW!” ~ “Boss”-gear
robertedwardfay 3 weeks ago
the white man has broken every treaty
what are native americans going to do? keep trusting them?
no enough is enough.
people can't go on living like this...
MagicalOillusions 3 months ago
You know what?The corrupted gov is going to make the ENTIRE country exactly the same soon.Who is really behind it all?I am certain of only this,it is up to each one of us to heal the Hoop of all Nations;tyranny knows no racial limits now...global genocide happens because we didn't pay attention to the alleged"least" of us all.End the division,unite under the Tree...all my tears can't return what was taken;we must make use of the lessons and unite our hearts and minds together for this generation
flyinshallot 4 months ago
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branni79 4 months ago
the natives need to do what the blacks do when whitey acts up.
if all esle fails raise alittle hell
MagicalOillusions 5 months ago
@MagicalOillusions We can't do what the blacks do.They give them what they want.And kill us and put our leaders in prison.Like Leonard.PeltierHe has been there for 30 years for something he did not do.They don't kill blacks,Just Indians.
mamy101 4 months ago
@mamy101 which is exactly why native people need to come up with a good enough plan that overthrough the corrupt wrong doings. don't ever trust white people
MagicalOillusions 3 months ago
fuck white ppl xD
joshlyons93 6 months ago
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branni79 4 months ago
@branni79 so what if im racist? idc we still go through white peoples bs and maybe u should learn how to spell before replying to my comment i had a hard time reading it you sounded like a fuckin monkey with autism when i read this shit
joshlyons93 4 months ago
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branni79 4 months ago
@branni79 im sorry dyslexic monkey idk why ur so upset about my comment? its not like i said "fuck branni79" or anything to upset some ignorant white person who obviously has no life just tryna start drama on the internet. I have breakfast to cook and orange juice to drink Swag. so ttyl
joshlyons93 4 months ago
Fuck U.S. Government !
what4563 7 months ago
I fail to see how it's the government's fault that there are no jobs in your area. Start a business, move away. There's always a solution. What do you expect though, if you drop out of school? Preserving one's national identity is nice, but lacking education might have something to do with people not willing to employ you.
JanPospisil42 1 year ago
@JanPospisil42 Don't get me wrong, I'm a socialist and I believe the state should help those in need. But don't you feel a bit of a hypocrite? On one hand rejecting the whites and their way of life, on the other asking for money to fund your freedom. Your children have a choice not to be uneducated drunks. Talk to them, not to the people on the internet, who are far away and don't really care.
Best of luck to you anyway!
JanPospisil42 1 year ago
@JanPospisil42 Not sure if you're serious?
They have massive problems and being employed by those off-rez is a very small one in comparison; but it's still funny that you see this in the context of the supposed 'American Dream'.
Alcoholism is rife - after the government introduced it to keep them fighting each other; Diabetes and heart problems are a big issue - after the gov slaughtered all the game/poisoned the rivers/cut down the forests; and there is MASSIVE racism towards Natives.
Lukege15 7 months ago
Is there any way I can help? Even from Europe?
lafko79 1 year ago
i live right here in pine ridge were getting bigger n better just takes time but its a process, we as people can overcome the white like we always did .
dreamer52188 1 year ago
@dreamer52188 OMG I REALLY NEED TO TALK WITH YOU I HOPE YOU SEE THIS ILL WAIT TILL YOU SAY SOME THING THEN ILL GIVE YOU A CONTACT EMAIL OK
TAKE CARE
7thunderstone 10 months ago
@beone011 are you saying people decide if they want poverty? The native Americans absolutely don't have a decision, our government doesn't give them any opputunites for freedom.. There are no jobs out there for them to make money.
gcw8919 1 year ago 2
hold on latinos are coming to help soon
gearofduty2012 1 year ago
Thanks to the f**ktards at Sony and their ©-Enforcement mafia, this video does not play in my country (i.e., Germany). Even using a proxy, it does not work. Thanks a lot, suckers!
eigensinn83 1 year ago
I am european who has been enormously interested in the culture, history and spirituality of most of Native Nations; in none other civilisation of the world, have I found such incredible wisdom, broad-mindedness, the sense of honour and honesty... I'm not able to express my feelings when I think about what this bloody state, the united states of america, has done to the Indians. When you trace this whole history, it can be compared to what the natzi germans were doing...
Luilekkerlandful 1 year ago
@Luilekkerlandful What the nazis did isn't even close to what the U.S. did to these poor people.
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poornima141 1 year ago
we dont come from da suburbs we come from da rez
KrazyMusicChick7979 1 year ago
For those people here who are denying America's slow-motion genocide of the Native peoples, you should check out:
_American Holocaust_ by David Stannard and _A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present_ by Ward Churchill.
As these books suggest, America has its own form of "holocaust denial."
tgdrvd 1 year ago
@lilyodaskittle - Yes!
ofdoubtsandgod 1 year ago
My native brothers choose to live this way. no natives are now forced to live on any reser vation!. They dont take care of their own as do the amish, jewish peoples,etc.... What happened to the warrior way of taking care of the people and teaching the young ones? blaming the U.S. gov is stupid and a waste of time
beone011 1 year ago
@beone011 you go to the reservations when you refuse to be a part of the problem any longer & you grow up there because that's where your family is. even for a lot of people who do leave.. our warriors come back all the time & help bc they're *real* men. their PLAN is to make us leave our people so we stay weak. problem is you can't break real indegnious pride & you'll never kill the sundance spirit. GO BACK TO THE REZ'S AND HELP YOUR OLD & YOUR WOUNDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! QUIT CHARGING FOR INIPI!!
lilyodaskittle 1 year ago
@beone011 You are wrong I'm afraid; as a Native you should know that most of Indian Nations had absolutely different mentality; they were not able to fit this mainstream focused on making money, greed, calculation - so "american".. Being twice in US, I was in Ojibwe Rez, in Wisconsin. Some lakes with resorts - all belong to white americans, while Ojibwe people are pushed in one corner of the Rez, living in hopeless poverty: whites are so disgusting to take places, even within Indian rezervation
Luilekkerlandful 1 year ago
@Luilekkerlandful You are wrong - two visits to a rez makes you an expert?? I think not. money is a TOOL, money is neither good or bad, Living in poverty is a decision, blaming someone or some government in the best country in the world really is a mind/person without enough knowledge/skills to rise above ones personal situation. Living without goals or not using your power to ACT leads to misery. (life 101) it wouldnt hurt to pray to the creator for guidance also.
beone011 1 year ago
The genocide of American Indian individuals and First Nations is so pernicious because it is so GRADUAL. This is why I had trouble understanding why the word "genocide" was bandied about -- it sounded like an exagerration.
But, if you understand Eugenics, you'll understand that there are vested interests who regard American Indians as "human weeds." First step: Sequester and isolate. Second step: Deprive. Third step: Relocate the ambitious ones so they can't aid their own people.
quornholio 1 year ago 2
(continued)...So, people will scoff at the term "genocide," because they think in sound bites and talking points.
I was always sceptical myself at the use of the word "genocide" until I read a remarkable book by Edwin Black titled "War Against the Weak." It is about the Eugenics movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
To understand the slow death of American Indian nations and people, it must be understood that this particular genocide is one of Eugenic neglect and sequestering.
quornholio 1 year ago
When we hear the word "genocide," most people in the U.S. will think of the Nazi death camps. Fewer still will recall the planned famine in the Ukraine under communist Soviet Russia.
What has been imposed upon the Lakota people in particular and the First Nations people in general is a slow, but tenacious, form of genocide. So slow, in fact, that the biggest hurdle is convincing people that the relocation of American Indians is genocide.
quornholio 1 year ago
I am willing to start a NATION WIDE campaign to help these NATIVES of this failing country! Blessed BE
DgurlSunshine 1 year ago
I honestly don't think we can help the Indian kids much, it's a fact they are among the most illiterate on earth.
Jtomo1987 1 year ago
@Jtomo1987 due to your government and people with that attitude...we are ALL failures!
DgurlSunshine 1 year ago
zezt as a permaculturist from down under ,I hope that they have had this shared with them, if not maybe we can fix that.
permie11 1 year ago
forgive me if i am naive. I have strong feelings of deep upset about what the invaders of America have imposed on the original people, AND their own poor but I live in UK--far away.
First question, hasn't there been any Permaculture projects there?
zezt 1 year ago
@zezt by invaders you must mean the British and their colonies.
Trenz73 1 year ago
Yes of course. And the Spanish.
zezt 1 year ago
oh people of the good heart.thank you 4 all your kind words.but we need your prayers.mony is always nice,but your prayers will stay with us.some times its all we can carry.pilamiyello oyete
MrBuzzoro 2 years ago
What Indian casinos MUST start doing (in spite of facing violence from the mobsters they serve) is to SPREAD PROFITS to ALL indian tribes in the nation! And btw, the American Indian SHOULD be the workforce on forefront of GREEN wave jobs - you are the rainbow people of mother earth! The u.s. govt MUST offer these jobs to YOU as native peoples as but one way to impact your life style. Shame on U.S. for allowing such poverty on indian land. But YOU too have the answers. Become strong again! Peace
ChristopherLaro 2 years ago
thoese of us that have any strength are so few.
MrBuzzoro 2 years ago
the world give the peace nobel price to people like that president of yours who is sending more troops to afganistan and keeps his ass nice and warm in the oval office, and to roosevelt who threw the atomic bombs on japan ....but nobody ever thinks about the great man that is russell means. I hope he becomes president one day ! good luck to you all.
ckhafagiuk 2 years ago
Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize as a consolation for not being able to bring the summer Olympics to Chicago. Plain and simple.
InfiniteMushroom 2 years ago
bah !!!
ckhafagiuk 2 years ago
truman not roosevelt
chrissyd22 2 years ago
I am white and I agree with you. Russell Means is my hero. I love listening to him speak. He is very smart and listening to him gives me a better understanding of how life should be.
kelay2004 2 years ago 2
@kelay2004 Dang you need another hero! He beat his elderly father in law on the Navajo reservation while with a navajo women! don't believe all the bullshit.
beone011 1 year ago
@kelay2004 wow u need another hero hahahah
KrazyMusicChick7979 1 year ago
Totally approve.
We, Communists of Europe, are with you, people who want to take their independences from their oppressors!
Chomuno 2 years ago
Harry Truman dropped the bomb not FDR, hey but don't let facts ruin a good rant!
grlykool 2 years ago
I am very moved by the Lakota Nation and the work of Russell. I regret not knowing about him and his people's struggles before....
I know there are ways in which my wife and I can be of blessing to the ancient Lakota people...
I would love to learn their language and TEACH IT to their children.
MrBiblia 2 years ago
my feelings goes to all of u,i will go all the way from norway and come to give what i can in both things and support,my mom was there this year and im joining next time
jarleeve 2 years ago
Loved watching the two girls walk away at 4:49 they will be your next Doctors lawyers. Stay up Pine Ridge, Your ancsters Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, and all other Elders are watching over you guys. The Lakota/Sioux will one day rise again.
Dealz1988 2 years ago
broken spirits? look in the faces. there is hardship, true. but that doesn't eliminate spirit when it is all you have known since the arrival of the anglo. we have little...but we do not need much. the charity, while appreciated is our form of luxury. why do we need more than enough? just give us a chance to preserve our culture. we don't need your style of life. most don't want it. we have never wanted more than a chance to live. despite the best efforts of whites, we are still alive
onthetubebaby 2 years ago
Russell Means for PRESIDENT!!!!!
xoxoSTFUxoxo 2 years ago 2
Broken promises, broken hearts. and broken spirits.
jaguar57772 2 years ago 2
Lakota, screw white mans education. Stay loyal to your culture and spiritulism. One day white mans politics will destroy itself and a reckoning will be forthcoming.
The U.S. government is turning on it's own people as well. It is a world of corrupt politics and greedy insane people who could not survive without comforts and know nothing of the land and it's ways.
Stay true to yourselves, your ancestors, the land and great spirit. God is in control and will renew that which was stolen
rayven2012 2 years ago 5
please email me at YouTube
MsCharamut1969 2 years ago
I did mission work on pine ridge in 2006 and really bonded with this girl by the name Tolia. I cant belive america claims to be such a great country when this is in its shadows I would like to create a fund that will build good quality homes that are sustainable and helth centers. it was so hard for me to live them in that living condition.
MajesticWolfRunner 2 years ago 4
This is a beautiful video and the song very nice. Thank for it. Hope the futur of the Lakota nation can be more beautiful. I want to dedicate this song to : Wilson "Wally" Black Elk Jr and Ronald "Ron" Hard Heart. Remember 10 years ago, the June 8 1999. Bad days. I'am french but when i listen this bad day, I go to camp Justice on Pine Ridge in June 2000 to support the Lakota People. Never forgett Tom Poor Bear and the beautiful Lakota people.
Tomcat5766 2 years ago 2
I always want to help, where I live the red cross do not accept cloths or other items. They ask you to give it to the Salavation Army. I have a lot of cloths and thing that I could send if they would accept it. It is in very good shape or great shape. I would to help them out. atheina75819 :) 6/12/09
:) 9:09pm EST
atheina75819 2 years ago
WE should all get behind programs such as the backpacks for the children to go to school with. Instead of giving clothes to red cross or st vinnies we should give it directly to the people who need it most..if our communities got together what a diffrence we could make just by giving and showing WE care. Much love from australia xox
Hottidownunda1 2 years ago
thew indian fund they are supposed to recieve is stolen every year it goes down a dark hole never going where it is supposed it is not grant money but reimbursements for federal use of their resources. poverty is a state of mind once you get the housing and food issues down then you need a direction, i dont look at the film and think the poor godforsaken people.I see abueatiful landscape and things could improve immensely if not for greed of you know who.
xtiml 2 years ago
Ill compassionate trollers here must be CPS caseworkers who have not met their kidnapping quota's >:) 'S
not4playn 2 years ago 3
You couldn't possibly be more insulting.
"Laziness?"
You destroy a people's spirit and you call it "laziness."
TradoBank 2 years ago 2
I liked it a lot.
But, I think that people need to realize that some of these families here in Pine Ridge have been living like this for generations. They choose to live like this and don't mind it.
WarrenWestonEagle 3 years ago
They choose to live like this and don't mind it? That's a hell of a thing to say. I see that in your profile you are a Legislative aide. Apparently you are in or tied to tribal government, the people on Pine Ridge who do fine. It's easy to see why you say that they don't mind living "like that." If you lived like that, could you honestly say that you don't mind it?
Thunderbird2014 3 years ago
Well actually I used to live like that. I used to live like that with other people. They don't mind. I didn't mind, I just wanted to survive. And if getting your government assistance check every two weeks for $117 a week was all I could get, then I made it work. I ate and ate and at when I got EBT. I had nothing else to do. And it was virtually free. I didn't mind.
Yes, it is a hell of a thing to say because it is a hell of a thing to SEE.
How narrow-minded you are.
WarrenWestonEagle 3 years ago
"I ate and ate and at when I got EBT." Apparently you have difficulty putting complete and coherent sentences together. You ate and you ate. Ok so what? Are you living like a king? Nice of you to downplay the extent of things. And your USED to live like that? Apparently you didn't like that lifestyle otherwise you wouldn't have a "nice apartment."
Thunderbird2014 3 years ago
No, I'm working to the point where I'm okay knowing the fact that I'm working and not draining the government. I never claimed to have chosen to live in poverty. I just was. And I finally found a job. I'm not uneducated.
WarrenWestonEagle 3 years ago
"I never claimed to have chosen to live in poverty. I just was." Precisely my point. The same applies to the people who live in the terrible conditions on Pine Ridge. They didn't choose to live in poverty either, nobody does. But look at your comment at the top of this thread. You stated "They choose to live like this." So, you didn't choose to live in poverty, but the people (your own people) chose to according to you. That doesn't make any sense. That is all that I am saying.
Thunderbird2014 3 years ago
Well then perhaps I should've said they've accepted their lifestyle. To be poor. I had no choice, so I just dealt with it.
WarrenWestonEagle 3 years ago
"Freedom is having nothing left they can take from you."
I don't get government assistance and I do EARN some money, but my NET income is FAR below the poverty level.
Originally this wasn't a choice, but now that I tasted this FREEDOM, I never want to lose it.
I learned how to build a house out of DIRT, how to grow food.
I wish I could transfer some of my enthusiasm to the people in Pine Ridge.
I'm afraid they lost their spirit.
No amount of money will fix their problems.
TradoBank 2 years ago
I agree with you. When you're hand-fed by the government, you sort of get used to it and develop a laziness.
That's one hell of a way to eradicate a native american tribe.
WarrenWestonEagle 2 years ago
laziness? are you out of your mind? everything we do is hard. sitting in your living room is a fine place to be when making judgments on people and conditions you don't understand. and to make such a harsh statement in a way that infers we are given anything is beyond inhuman. it's white. the same attitude that made it okay to hand out blankets with small pox. or the systematic slaughter of women and children as a means of stopping future generations from being born. you were our quests.
onthetubebaby 2 years ago
Well you know, I live in Pine Ridge. I work as the legislative aide for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, I do various work/research for the president and the tribal council. I suffered and worked my way up through school and jobs. I help my people far more effective than most people around here. AND I understand them. I KNOW the people. It IS hard. YOU, least importantly, do not understand.
WarrenWestonEagle 2 years ago
And now I have to leave my country as the spirits told me I have job to do elsewhere. I am about to go to the US, to one of the Lakota reservations. My skin is white but I see no diference between you and me. Mitakuye Oyas'in. I want to learn from the wisdom of the Lakota, and I would like to help you, if I can. And when one day I can return to my homeland, I will bring what I have learned back with myself. Many white man would understand the natives, they just can't hear your voice.
xxxHeWancixxx 3 years ago
You are not alone. I am Storm, from Hungary, Europe. Hungarians were once very similar to native americans. And now my country is about to being totally destroyed by the corruption of politics. The quality of our life drops from day to day and our chance to survive is decrasing. You will also not see this in the media. REAL hungarians are now rare in Hungary. Our Government is made out of criminals who live fat and well from our money while we live worse and worse.
xxxHeWancixxx 3 years ago
They don't want the rest of the world to know that in the middle of the United States is a place that is in most cases worst than a third world country it would expose the corruption in the White mans government and the BIA who in some case is a puppet for the White mans government plus many don't want to know they to worried about their fine homes and cars to actually care about the First Nations peoples
guardianwolf01 3 years ago 14
@guardianwolf01
I agree....... the government is FULL OF SHYT!!! they should reconize the Nations first people.... WE Natives were tha first ones here...
ARealStonaBabe 1 year ago
the feds are doing what they have always done broke treatys and lie to the native americans you never see this on main stream tv the owners of the country would not allow it
wilddixieman 3 years ago 8
Great video, I wonder why the main stream media doesn't cover what is going on in these Indian reservations.
AppalachianAmer1can 3 years ago 5