Stephen Hawking's comment about Native Americans

Now my friends,
I, Geronimo Rubio, don't know to much about these so called "Aliens from Outer Space" (Illegal Aliens From Outer Space The Cat From Outer Space) coming down here and owning the planet as in this interview with Stephen Hawking's. But I do agree with his statement about the "Murdering Christopher Columbus" (Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise: Second Edition (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) (Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism) and how it was "Not so good for the Native Americans" of this country.

The renowned and brilliant Stephen Hawking made a statement that included the Native Americans and the impact upon us made by Columbus in a worldwide press covered interview. Thought you might like to see this. Wonderful to have some truth come out and speak to the entire world for a change!!!
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Here's an excerpt of the article and the highlighted quote in red print. Link to the entire article is at the bottom:

Volcanoes, tornadoes, wars and earthquakes, melting ice caps and disappearing glaciers all are not bad enough these mad, latter times; now, planetary Uber brain, Stephen Hawking tells us not to count on any heavenly encounters of the extraterrestrial kind to pull this weary race's fat out of the fire.

Hawking tells the London Times, not only are alien races mathematically certain, they're just as likely too to be marauding remnants of dead planets, desperately seeking an island of refuge in a very large sea. He suggested, should Earth be visited by such a crew, the results would be far from welcomed, saying;

"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."



To read the whole article online, link is:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7107207.ece

 

Water Alert ! Indians under seige!

Dear friends Geronimo Rubio,

Here is a letter from Laura Furtman about more atrocities being attempted by those who wish to destroy Sacred Native Lands yet again. We are "First Nation, American Indian, Native, Indigenous". This was (And as far as I am concerned still) our land and we have to protect the Sacred Sites of our Ancestor's. Please read the letter and help where you feel your able too. "May the Great Spirit protect our Sacred Sites and Our People from those who would trespass on our lands"
Sacred Sites of the Indians of the American Southwest: Of the Indians of the American Southwest 
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Dear friends of Roscoe
I don't do this very often, but this is a call to rally the troops.

As you likely know, folks in Michigan's far North in the Upper Peninsula have been battling Kennecott for nearly five years now. Kennecott/Rio Tinto proposes to blast a portal to its new metallic sulfide mine through a sacred site to the Ojibwe known as Eagle Rock, Migizi Waasin. Recently, it seems, Kennecott (the same company that mined at Ladysmith and is proposing to mine in Aitkin County, Minnesota as well as in Michigan) made a big mistake and arrested a citizen for sitting on a stump with her dog on public land, close to Eagle Rock. The company has a pending lease for the property, but it is conditioned on the company first receiving all necessary permits to mine. One permit (from the EPA) has not yet been granted, so the land lease is not valid (not that it would be, really, even if they had all of their permits).



The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community has taken a strong stand for the land, for the water (the proposed mine site is about ten miles from the shores of Lake Superior) and the sacred site. Right now, about 5 of them are perched atop the site of the mining company's proposed portal. They welcome visitors to the site (you do not have to trespass, you can meet them at the end of the road). They need food, blankets, prayers, spiritual support, emotional support and legal support. If you have suggestions or ideas, if you would like to come for a visit, if you need a place to stay or a little funding for gas, please call me (715-296-0821) or my friend Teresa Bertossi (906-273-0040).

Here's a link to stories about the issue we face:

http://standfortheland.com/ This is a blog recently put up just for the issue.

http://headwatersnews.net/

http://miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/543341.html?nav=5006

I thank you from my heart for your help ... in whatever form it might take.



Sincerely,

Laura Furtman
   

Youth suicides epidemic on tribal reservations - Mental health

Youth suicides epidemic on tribal reservations - Mental health

WASHINGTON - At 15, high school sophomore Coloradas Mangas knows all too much about suicide.

He's recently had several friends who took their own lives, and he survived a suicide attempt himself.

Coloradas, a member of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, lives on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico, where there have been five youth suicides since the start of the school year. All were his friends...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36039795/ns/health-mental_health/?GT1=43001
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Clemency for Leonard Peltier please sign

Clemency for Leonard Peltier please sign

http://www.petitiononline.com/Clemency/petition.html

Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance 

The Trial of Leonard Peltier 

Incident at Oglala - The Leonard Peltier Story 

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse 

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: Songs For Leonard Peltier 

Tribes promote census count

PLUMMER, Idaho (AP) – The crowd chuckled appreciatively when Ernie Stensgar began singing “One little, two little, three little Indians” during a U.S. census rally April 14 on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation.
That’s how some tribal members might feel when Census Bureau workers come knocking at their doors, acknowledged Stensgar, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s vice chairman. The suspicion is natural. Broken treaties and a history of past conflicts color how American Indians view the federal government.
Yet, accurate census counts are critical to tribes. Their governments – like states, cities and counties – get federal grants for housing, roads, health care and job training based on census data.
“Standing up and being counted is important,” Stensgar said.
American Indians and Alaska Natives have the lowest census participation rates among all racial and ethnic groups, said Duane Wakan, a tribal participation specialist for the Census Bureau.
In 1990, an estimated 24 percent went uncounted. National campaigns helped improve counts during the 2000 census. But the nation’s Native populations were still underrepresented by about 12 percent, Wakan said.
Inland Northwest tribes are working with the Census Bureau to boost participation rates. Wednesday’s rally on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation included a dinner, powwow and a question-and-answer session with census officials from Seattle.
On the Colville Reservation, households that turn in census forms are entered in a drawing for one of four 52-inch flat-screen TVs. The incentive appears to be working, said Michael Finley, chairman of the Colville Tribe, in a phone interview.
“I get calls from people who say, Hey, the census person hasn’t come to my house yet,’ or I haven’t gotten my form in the mail,”’ he said.
On the Coeur d’Alene Reservation, census workers will go door to door to collect information through May 29. The personal visits were triggered by the tribe’s low census participation in the past, as well as the reservation’s rural character, said Roberta Armstrong, a tribal regional technician from the Census Bureau.
Many people get their mail through a post office box. But the U.S. Census Bureau wants to count them at their home, Armstrong said.
Molly Zachary, who lives in Worley, Idaho, had already received a visit from a Census worker. But she learned Wednesday that she needs to amend her form. Zachary didn’t realize that she needed to list two grown children and a son-in-law who live with her but weren’t at home during the census worker’s visit. Her daughter and son-in-law are in Oregon for an extended stay to care for an elderly relative.
Members of the tribe who live in urban areas also need to participate in the census, said Paulette Jordan, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s census liaison. About 60 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives live in large cities.
To date, about 65 percent of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s households have participated in the census. On the Spokane Reservation, where census workers are also going door to door, participation rates have been high as well.
Denise Abrahamson, a member of the Spokane Tribe and a census crew leader, credited the hiring of local people for high participation rates. Many of the census workers are tribal members.
“You’re not opening your door to a stranger,” she said.
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Information from: The Spokesman-Review, http://www.spokesman.com
Written by BECKY KRAMER, The Spokesman-Review Monday, 19 April 2010 10:35