Tag Archives: Sioux

Upside-Down Flags, Standing Rock, and the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest: Background and Basic Facts

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Here are the basic facts.  There’s an oil boom in North Dakota in a region called the Bakken oil fields, which produces high quality oil, so pure that some workers up there have put unrefined Bakken crude oil straight into … Continue reading →

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Havoc, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Dogs of War

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The violent confrontations splashed across the media in the last few days recall not just another Avatar-esque confrontation between militarized resource-exploiting corporations and local indigenous inhabitants– and yet another ironic use of an appropriated Native name– but also the sordid … Continue reading →

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Occupied Lands: The Great Sioux Nation

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

This is the first installment of a multi-part series looking at lands that were ethnically cleansed of Native Americans, focusing on what has become of those lands today, and what has become of the people that lived there.  The Sioux … Continue reading →

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Federal Court Victory for Oglala and Rosebud Sioux Children

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The Geneva Convention defines genocide as “…any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily … Continue reading →

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Rosebud Sioux Declare Keystone XL Pipeline an Act of War

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Stephen Carr Hampton

This is getting interesting, especially since the current planned route passes thru their reservation. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/rosebud-sioux-tribe-house-vote-favor-keystone-xl-pipeline-act-war/

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On this date… November 3, 1875… Washington, D.C.

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On this date in 1875, President Ulysses Grant contrived a war to steal the Black Hills. George Bush II contrived a war. He said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but what they really had was oil. The Lakota, or … Continue reading →

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On this date… August 27, 1874… South Dakota

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The Chicago newspaper declared:  “GOLD!  The Glittering Treasure Found at Last…  A Belt of Gold Territory Thirty Miles Wide.”  The article was leaking the news from an illegal US Army expedition into the Great Sioux Reservation. The reservation, delineated by … Continue reading →

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