#the black hills

[virtie333]

I'm not sure I'll get anything written tonight, but that's okay...

It was a busy, but wonderful, day. I've determined that a low-stress job with regular hours is why I have more energy to do the things I love.

[rjcity1]

It's up and it'll blow your mind.

[joy-haver]

“The Black Hills are a holy place to the Lakota Nation.

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 pledged that the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills, would be “set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Lakota Nation.” The US military was obligated by law to keep settlers and prospectors from trespassing into the Black Hills. But law is meaningless if it is not enforced. The Fort Laramie Treaty has never lost its legal validity. But after the discovery of gold in the early 1870’s, the treaty was broken.

The Black Hills were opened for settlement and illegally stolen from the Lakota Nation.

These are our Holy Lands.

After 100 years, it's long overdue for the treaty to be honored, and for the United States to restore our sacred sites to us and stop robbing the minerals from the holy earth as they have been doing for more than a century.

AIM, myself, and many natives for generations have fought for the return of the Black Hills, even though we had been so intimidated, and so much violence done to us. Back in the 70’s, the FBI tried to tell us that as a colonized people, we had to lay down and follow their rules. They did not understand that they were on our holy lands, and that they were not following their own rules.

Under Article 6 of the Constitution, treaties are the supreme law of the land. In order to abrogate (or, invalidate) a treaty, congress must make a clear statement of intent to terminate the treaty. The treaty of 1868 was never abrogated. Even the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Black Hills were never lawfully taken from the Lakota Nation.

We have never stopped fighting for the Black Hills.

And we never will.

I also have a message for the young natives out there.

I know a lot of you are suffering.

Know that we love you. We need you.

You are a part of us. Learn your language. Learn your culture.

Who you are, and who we are, has always been a good thing,

And we need you to keep living and being good on the earth.

Don’t despair. Resist despair. And stand with us for the land, for the water, and for the people.

In the spirit of Crazy Horse,

Leonard Peltier.

Statement from prison. Dec 5. 2023

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submitted to “Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff”

Episode: Lakota Resistance to the American Empire, Part Four.

Read aloud by Miriam

Transcribed by me, punctuation and line breaks inferred.

[titleknown]

Honestly, I've always thought, were we to return the Black Hills to their original native owners (As we should) so they can get rid of the big stupid colonizer heads amongst other things, we should make a smaller tourist trap elsewhere called Mount Shame that's a fiberglass sculpture of a "mountain" with our shittiest presidents on it that people can throw rotten fruit at.

Andrew Johnson (Sabotaged Reconstruction) would definitely be on it, as would Andrew Jackson (Genocide president) Woodrow Wilson (supercharged our imperialism and helped bring back the Klan), Nixon (Nixon) and Ronald Reagan (The source of most of our modern problems).

If you're wondering where Dubya is in all this, since he's still alive, we'd drag him to the top of Mt Shame and burn him alive, Mussolini-death-style, and leave his corpse up as a warning to future generations.

[thomaswaynewolf]

[whatsy0urdream]

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[abyssofsydney]

Hey y'all, I'm Sydney.

I'll start out by saying that if you are reading this, you most likely have stumbled upon one of the more boring blogs out there. Here you will find pictures of myself, family, nature, animals, rv living, & I'm sure a lot of memes. You will absolutely find sarcasm, along with venting, positivity, & cuteness; probably some sadness, and definitely anxiety seeping from my posts.

If you're still reading, let me introduce myself a little more. I'm 27 & from a small farm town in Mid-Michigan. I'm married to a great man who travels for work, so we currently live in our camper in South Dakota & lemme tell ya, it’s been quite the experience thus far. We have three awesome rescued fur babies with us, Sage, a pitty with a licking problem, Sadie, a sassy bluetick coonhound, & Momma Kitty, a golden house cat that’s afraid of the world. I recently finished up my college semester and only have one more class to take before I have my bachelors in business administration. I have no idea what I am going to do with this degree, but hey, I got it.

I struggle a lot with mental illness and have been treated professionally multiple times. I feel that my life is ran by my anxiety and depression sometimes, & I have struggled significantly, resulting in severe agoraphobia. Last year I was unable to leave my living room, let alone my house, as I felt I was truly going to pass out and die. Along with the anxiety & depression, I suffer from PTSD from multiple incidents that have occurred in my life & one day it all just hit me like a brick and I couldn't do anything.

I try very hard to be positive and live a healthy and productive lifestyle. I find myself retreating to my bed when the days are rough and I need to force myself out of this habit. There's too much to experience in life for me to be stuck in my own head and home. My grandma's recent passing really enlightened me to this. I struggle to be positive, even though I have so much to be happy & grateful for. I feel that often I can't speak my mind or even understand & put into words my own feelings. For an adult, it seems silly for how distant I can be from my own emotions. Which is probably why my husband is my only friend.

I still struggle with my mental health, I still don't drive far or often, I still rely on my husband probably way too much, & I still struggle with agoraphobia & positivity.

But...

I traveled 1200 miles from home with just my husband and our pets to explore what else the country has to offer. I began driving alone for short distances & even going grocery shopping on my own (big anxiety trigger for me). And the one I think I am most proud of is that I climbed a freaking mountain. Well, technically it's a large hill, but saying that makes it sound so pathetic, & it was not. It was a brutal 3 mile hike up The Black Hills, which even included some rock climbing. I still can't believe it. Me. Sydney freaking Cook. Climbed a gosh dang mountain. If I would have told myself any of this a year ago, I would have laughed in disbelief.

Each day I'm changing, growing, becoming more me. I discover more & more of myself with each destination I arrive to, & for a mentally ill girl who thought she never could do these things, I think that's pretty neat.

Here's me on the day of our hike to Little Devils Tower.

[prairie-tales]

The Black Hills of South Dakota. Must be them there hills what Doris Day sang about in 'Calamity Jane'.

[cain-the-mediocre-at-best]

[goryhorroor]

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[virtie333]

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[evvvangeline44]

regulus may have been james gay realization but who was REGULUS gay realization? dorcas. yk why? cus all the guys in his class had a major crush on dorcas diva meadows EXCEPT regulus and he never figured out why till he saw james potter on a broom in a quidditch match and then it hit him. thank you for listening.

[thomaswaynewolf]

[oddleen]

I'm back from the dead because shut up they're so cute together.