Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya)

Kheya Wita. Tanyan Yahi Mitha AkahanyankA.

ThogktekA Kici Unci Makha.
Patitan Inyan Woslal HeOyanke.
Mni Wichoni.
Makha Wichoni kin Wakhan Thanka.

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

People Think Standing Rock Has Come And Gone #NoDAPL #MniWiconi

International Indigenous Youth Council helped steer the Standing Rock Sioux Oyate efforts to halt the Dakota Access pipeline.
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Litigation Updates
July 2016 - Current
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[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

01/06/22 Judge rules against pipeline company trying to keep “counterinsurgency records secret
In a legal fight over public records, press advocates say that Dakota Access pipeline company Energy Transfer engaged in “abusive litigation tactics.” #NoDAPL
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[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

Dakota 38+2: Honoring those who lost their lives striving to survive.

Today riders begin their wintery trek to remember those hanged on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota, upon President Abraham Lincoln’s order. 

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[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

President @JoeBiden signed into law a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that includes #Native communities to improve roads, expand broadband access, and fund sanitation, water rights, and environmental reclamation projects.

What's Next for Tribes?
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[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

CNN: Lisa investigates the murders of wealthy Native Americans during the 1920's oil boom and witnesses how the descendants are fighting to revive what was nearly lost forever.

Show: This Is Life with Lisa Ling
$1.99 You Tube
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[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

Native American Tribes Gathered In Plymouth To Mourn On Thanksgiving

We want to educate people so that they understand the stories we all learned in school about the first Thanksgiving are nothing but lies. 
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[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

What Does Thanksgiving Mean to Native Americans?

The dominant cultural and historical story has been told from the perspective of the white colonialists who landed near Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts in 1620.
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[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

Mexican environmental campaigner missing after attack on villagers

Irma Galindo Barrios, a member of the indigenous Mixtec (ñuù savi) people who worked to protect forests in southern Oaxaca state, was last heard from on 27 October. 
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[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

Biden to announce agency partnerships with Native American leaders at tribal summit.

https://t.co/X7Jmch3HF0

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

Biden on Monday will sign an executive order ordering the Department of Justice, Department of Interior, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Health and Human Services to create specific strategies for improving safety and justice for Native Americans.

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Winter Park Resort in Grand County, Colo., has officially acknowledged it sits on the ancestral homeland of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Native American tribes.

"Native Tribes didn't give these lands up. They were taken from them". 
https://t.co/W7imnPs1bd

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

The jingle dress: The story behind a Native American dance and its power of spiritual healing.

https://t.co/iPZpXaW97B

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

The Women of Standing Rock: Fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline #NoDAPL

At the Standing Rock protests, Indigenous American women united to protect their land and water.

https://t.co/gS1jBuQXPf

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

Seneca Nation on the Allegany Territory is marking #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth with a historic ceremony. 

American buffalo is a treasured animal and resource for Native American communities across the United States.
https://t.co/xeAlYIYCho

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

Native American Veterans Serve The Nation

Akichitas (Warrior-Lakhota) means to be a protector—a protector of tribe, land, and culture. Honoring peace as well. https://t.co/MWebETF2wa

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

Return of Tribal Land: Ancestral land in Hat Creek returned to Pit River tribe.

This is the first of four parcels—a total of more than 5,000 acres—that will be returned to the tribe within the next couple of years. #LandBack
https://t.co/ntKt3XCGgc

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

The Quileute's tribal village, home to about 400 people, is now threatened by the Pacific's rising waters due to climate change. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://t.co/ypTUU0Sg6j

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

How loss of historical lands makes Native Americans more vulnerable to climate change.

Tribes were displaced to areas that are now more exposed to a wide variety of climate change risks.
https://t.co/U9hyjyzXuk

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

Interview: Tara Houska, a tribal attorney of Couchiching First Nation.

Pipeline firm deposited millions into state fund to pay local police to 'patrol' and 'protect' controversial Line 3 project.
https://t.co/dfQSIConPD

[Garry Van Kirk (Iwastela Wasʼagya) @Trumenza]

On Wednesday, October 27, the judge for Nick Tilsen’s evidentiary hearing took the defense’s arguments to drop his charges under advisement. #LandBack https://t.co/dMygihoXlc

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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Every November since 1990, the United States celebrates Native American Heritage Month.  https://t.co/ZjwxKSp1Jk