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An Indian Prayer Christmas Day

An Indian Prayer Christmas Day Larry Kibby Great Spirit Grandfather, I send these words to you, To Father Sun, Grandmother Moon, To all of my relations, To Mother Earth, And to the Four Winds The Sacred Seasons of Life. Grandfather, Today you gave The breath of Life To an Indian Child, In a most Sacred [...]

How Native American Drums Play A Spiritual Role In Indigenous Culture

Read original article by clicking link below How Native American Drums Play A Spiritual Role In Indigenous Culture Native American drums are undeniably the most loved Native American instruments among Native and non Indian people alike. Drums for hundreds of years have always been at the center of Indian lifestyle, forming what is the channel [...]

Johnny Cash: Foe of hypocrisy

President Nixon to Johnny Cash: “Johnny, would you be willing to play a few songs for us,” Nixon asked Cash. “I like Merle Haggard’s ‘Okie From Muskogee’ and Guy Drake’s ‘Welfare Cadillac.’” The architect of the GOP’s Southern strategy was asking for two famous expressions of white working-class resentment.

“I don’t know those songs,” replied Cash, “but I got a few of my own I can play for you.” Dressed in his trademark black suit, his jet-black hair a little longer than usual, Cash draped the strap of his Martin guitar over his right shoulder and played three songs, all of them decidedly to the left of “Okie From Muskogee.” With the nation still mired in Vietnam, Cash had far more than prison reform on his mind. Nixon listened with a frozen smile to the singer’s rendition of the explicitly antiwar “What Is Truth?” and “Man in Black” (“Each week we lose a hundred fine young men”) and to a folk protest song about the plight of Native Americans called “The Ballad of Ira Hayes.” It was a daring confrontation with a president who was popular with Cash’s fans and about to sweep to a crushing reelection victory, but a glimpse of how Cash saw himself — a foe of hypocrisy, an ally of the downtrodden. An American protest singer, in short, as much as a country music legend.
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CIA Knew About Iran’s Secret Nuclear Plant Long Before Disclosure

This summer, as the Obama Administration prepared to confront Iran with proof of its undisclosed uranium-enrichment plant in Qum, CIA Director Leon Panetta ordered his staff to work with European intelligence agencies to compile a comprehensive presentation about the facility. Although the Iranians had taken great pains to keep the facility a secret, building it into a mountain 100 miles southwest from Tehran, the CIA had known about it for three years.

House to vote on recognition for Virginia Indians

A kernel of corn can be steeped in meaning.

Distributed by Virginia Indians to members of Congress this week, the dried kernels are a reminder of an old debt the nation owes its natives. Indian-supplied corn kept the first colonists alive.

Corn also symbolizes a nod. Some tribal matters are still decided using a kernel for “yes” and a dried pea for “no.”

Going the distance

It was May 1, 2008. Exhausted but inspired, Western junior Enrique Lopez used every ounce of energy he had left to complete the final stretch of the Peace and Dignity Journey, a run that began in Alaska, ended in Panama and covered more than 5,023 miles.

Lopez, along with 15 other participants, ran from Eklutna, Alaska, to the Panama Canal in a seven-month run called the Peace and Dignity Journey. Lopez said the run occurs every four years with a different prayer-based theme each year. Some past themes included a prayer for elders (1992), children (1996), family (2000) and women (2004) in honor of sacred sites and indigenous communities throughout the world, he said.

On May 21, Lopez gave a presentation about his experience at the Fairhaven Auditorium using a culmination of photos, video, thoughts and observations.

Bad water in Black Falls

WINDOW ROCK — For some elderly Black Falls, Ariz., residents, last week’s Navajo Environmental Protection Agency conference was their first opportunity to have a voice in Window Rock — a chance some didn’t want to miss.

The community located in the former Bennett Freeze area has struggled for years to find a source of safe drinking water, with residents often traveling 50 miles to Flagstaff on unpaved roads to haul water.

In February, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Indian Health Service extended a waterline and constructed a safe water-hauling point in the priority area to serve residents near four unregulated wells contaminated with uranium.

Follow the Science on Yucca

The administration’s budget for the Energy Department raises a disturbing question. Is President Obama, who has pledged to restore science to its rightful place in decision making, now prepared to curtail the scientific analyses needed to determine whether a proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be safe to build?
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It is no secret that the president and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, who hails from Nevada, want to close down the Yucca Mountain project, which excites intense opposition in the state. The administration has proposed a budget for fiscal year 2010 that would eliminate all money for further development of the site, and Mr. Reid has pronounced the project dead.

But the administration at least claimed that it would supply enough money for the Energy Department to complete the process of seeking a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, if only to gain useful knowledge about nuclear waste disposal. Unfortunately, the budget released this month looks as if it will fall well short of the amount needed.

Shundahai Network Co-Founder speaks to Obama about CBT

Mateo Peixinho and Barick Obama, Mateo gave him a copy of Corbin Harney’s book “The Way It Is” and explained who Corbin is and that he had worked with him on trying to achieve Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The book was a signed copy and it made us cry to give it up, but we thought that’s what Corbin would want. Corbin was a spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone people and later in life he dedicated himself to ending nuclear testing and stopping the Yucca Mountain project. He said that the nuclear contamination was shortening the life of all the living things