The Ihanktonwan Oyate/Yankton Sioux General Council of South Dakota passed key resolutions in April to affirm their opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline.
According to Native News Network, an April 4th Resolution declared that consultation with tribes by the State Department in regards to the pipeline project has been flawed and has not lived up to standards established in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
On April 4, 2013, Cultural Survival's Deputy Executive Director Mark Camp was interviewed on WBAI 99.5 FM on First Voices Indigenous Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse about the role community radio plays in Indigenous language revitalization. If you missed it listen here.
Protests are ramping up again against the Keystone XL project after the US Department of State released a draft of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) covering the pipeline route from Nebraska to the Canadian border. The proposed pipeline remains under review at the State Department, and will take comments for 45 days. Obama recently announced
By Terrance Hall
Smokin’ Fish. 2011, 81 minutes. Directed by Luke Griswold-Tergis & Cory Mann (Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc).
By Dana Benner
Nothing screams Hawai’i more than the lu’au. Every year countless people experience the numerous commercial lu’aus offered on all of the islands, but how many of those people understand what the lu’au, or as it is called by the Hawai’ian people, ‘aha’aina, means to the Hawai’ian culture. In many cases, the modern lu’aus that draw many tourists, only very slightly convey the true meaning of the event.
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