BREAKING NEWS STORY:  BLOCKADE IN WHITE CLAY, NEBRASKA AND ARREST OF PROTESTERS IN MARCH FOR JUSTICE

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Marching for 'Justice' members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe along with members of 'Deep Green Resistance' and Mothers Against Drunk Drivers demonstrated against the alcohol establishments in White Clay,Neb. Sunday afternoon, (August 26, 2012) protesting the huge sales of liquor to residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation, which is a 'dry' reservation.  Five members of 'Deep Green Resistance' were arrested around 8 PM Sunday evening by State Troopers and hauled off to Rushville, Neb. in a manure-contaminated horse trailer.

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Chief Little Shell - "Aissance"
Last hereditary chief of the Pembina Band of Little Shell


Chief Little Shell III, or Aissance (Little Clam) was the last of the hereditary chiefs of the Pembina Band of Ojibwe (1829-1900).  Also known as Ayabe we we tung, "He who rests on his way", he became known for his resistance to signing the McCumber Agreement of 1892 when the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa was created and ceded 10 million acres of what is now most of northern North Dakota.

His father, Little Shell II signed the Red Lake Pembina Treaty in 1863 as chief of the Pembina Band. This treaty also known as the Old Crossing Treaty acknowledged the existence of the Pembina Nation Chief Little Shell Band.  Based around present day North Dakota around the Pembina River, the band was part of the larger Anishinabe (Ojibwe) which occupied territory west of the Great Lakes.


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CONTROVERSY OVER $48.9 MILLION SALAZAR SETTLEMENT ON STANDING ROCK RESERVATION OVER PER CAPITA PAYMENTS

By Deborah LaVallie

Founder and Editor of The Turtle Island Messenger

The map of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation shows highly fractionated individual allotments shaded in green and tribal lands shaded in yellow.

On April 11^th, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced a $1.023 billion settlement of the U.S. Government’s mismanagement of monetary assets and natural resources held in trust by the U.S. Department of Interior and the U.S. Treasury, in lawsuits filed by 41 federally-recognized tribes.  The settlement ends the long-running disputes and claims that span over a 100 year period, that the Obama administration hopes will improve and move forward the relationship between the tribes and the U.S. Government.

Secretary of Interior, Salazar stated, “These important settlements reflect President Obama’s continuing commitment to ensuring empowerment and reconciliation for American Indians”, and said he is looking forward to working with tribal leaders to further strengthen the government to government relationship based on mutual respect and a shared concern for the proper management of tribal trust assets and funds.

Fifty six million acres of trust lands and more than 100,000 leases are managed by the Department of Interior, which include housing, timber harvesting, farming, grazing, oil and gas extraction, business leasing, rights-of-way and easements and managing around 2,500 trust accounts worth billions of dollars for more than 250 tribes.

Under the $1 billion Salazar Settlement agreements with the tribes, the protracted litigation will end the tribe’s lawsuits for mismanagement of the tribes trust accounts, trust lands and natural resources.  The U.S. Government will compensate the tribes for their breach of trust claims and the tribes will waive, release and dismiss their claims without prejudice. When one of the tribes settles, it is dismissed as a plaintiff.  These tribes can disburse funds to members in any manner they determine, such as a per capita payment, supportive services and so on.

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