standingrock

-Our guest in this episode is Summer Blaze Aubrey, a lawyer who is a descendant of the Blackfeet Nation and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation who is pursuing her Master of Laws while helping the Water Protectors Legal Collective fight corporations pursuing major pipeline projects

-She shares her story about joining friends in confronting a white professor and majority white student group on campus when they attempted to hold an event on federal law and Native issues without including the Native law students in the school. Imagine someone telling you that you're not qualified to speak to your own experience... 

-Summer walks us through how she knew at a young age that she was meant to become a lawyer and fight for her people

-We discuss the links between pipeline projects, missing and murdered indigenous women and children, sexual assault, water pollution, foreign banks, and ineffective regulations

-She shares her ideas on how you can stand in your power and become a strong ally to Native people

Links mentioned in this episode:

Summer's Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Summer.Aubrey 

Native News Sources:

https://turtletalk.blog

https://indiancountrytoday.com

http://www.tinyhousewarriors.com 

Rebecca's Website:

https://www.rebeccaredondo.com 

Rebecca's Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/standinginherpower/ 

Self-Determination

Self-determination empowers those who are most affected to be in the driver’s seat of policy-making decisions. For example, if an oil company wants to run a pipeline through Indigenous land, Indigenous communities themselves would decide based on their values and the impact on their families, water, air, and land. NDN collective works to restore self-determination through three pillars: defense, development, and decolonization.

Decolonization

European colonization was a system of white supremacy that annihilated complex Indigenous populations, cultures, languages, beliefs, land, and governing systems. The work of decolonization includes dismantling white supremacist systems of economic extraction and governance; education about the totality of colonial history; and the revitalization of Native languages and ways of being. Reclaiming Indigenous heritage is also an act of healing past traumas from colonization.

Land Back

A key tenet of self-determination and decolonization is the “land back” movement. Theft of Indigenous lands was one of the fundamental ways Europeans colonized America. Stealing land and extracting its resources decimated both the land and the people who lived on it. The land back movement aims to right this wrong by returning public lands, like National Parks and National Forests, to the care of Indigenous People. Land back does not mean removing Americans from their homes. Instead, it means returning the land to Native stewardship focusing on preservation and rejuvenation.

Find out more:

Nick Tilsen is the President & CEO of NDN Collective, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Tilsen has over 18 years of experience building place-based innovations that have the ability to inform systems change solutions around climate resiliency, sustainable housing, and equitable community development.

He founded NDN Collective to scale these place-based solutions while building needed philanthropic, social impact investment, capacity and advocacy infrastructure geared towards building the collective power of Indigenous Peoples. Tilsen has received numerous fellowships and awards from Ashoka, Rockefeller Foundation, Bush Foundation and the Social Impact Award from Claremont-Lincoln University. He has an honorary doctorate degree from Sinte Gleska University.

You can follow him on Twitter @NickTilsen
And you can follow NDN Collective on Twitter @ndncollective

In the seventh episode of When Animals Attack, Jen and Nilo swap dog attack stories from the US & the UK, including the tragic case of Diane Whipple, bite into breed discrimination & the use of dogs as tools of the state, reflect on 35 years of Cujo barking at a car, and compare the hellhounds of Devil Dog and Rottweiler.

Do you have an animal attack story? We want to hear from you! Email us at whenanimalsattackpod@gmail.com, or you can find us at instagram.com/whenanimalsattackpodcast, twitter.com/animalattackpod, and facebook.com/animalattackpod.

Produced by mature ADULT time entertainment

Sources:

Karen Delise, Fatal Dog Attacks: The Stories Behind the Statistics

Once Upon a Crime podcast, “Wild Things: Chapter 3: The Pacific Heights Dog Mauling Case – Part 1”

Once Upon a Crime podcast, “Wild Things: Chapter 4: The Pacific Heights Dog Mauling Case – Part 2”

American Justice, “The San Francisco Dog Mauling,” A&E

https://dogtime.com/dog-health/general/9218-dog-bites-and-the-media-researcher-karen-delise-weighs-in

https://www.livescience.com/61241-how-often-do-dogs-maul-owners.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/01/dangerous-dog-attack-victims-speak

https://people.com/archive/unleashed-fury-vol-55-no-7/

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2002/descent-darkness

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/westmoreland/2006/07/19/Wolf-dogs-killed-owner-autopsy-determines/stories/200607190197

http://time.com/5280769/dog-attack-dachshund-woman-oklahoma-death/

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/feb/28/local/me-maul28

Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and an attorney with the Lakota People's Law Project, describes the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and his almost two-year fight against felony charges. His work to develop a necessity defense led to the uncovering of corruption and collusion between industry, law enforcement and government. Chase also  gives his analysis of what the mobilization at Standing Rock means in the greater context of colonialism, capitalism and the absence of democracy. He explains the work that he and others at the Lakota People's Law Project are doing to reclaim Indigenous culture and sovereignty and create alternatives to current systems.

For an in-depth discussion of the changing global dynamics, what that means to people in the United States and what we can do about it, subscribe to Clearing the FOG on Patreon and receive our bonus show, Thinking it Through. Visit Patreon.com/ClearingtheFOG.

What does it mean to be Two Spirit, and what has the Two Spirit movement's role been in protection of basic rights. We spoke with Candi Brings Plenty and Court Morse about their path, which led them to Standing Rock as water protectors.

Candi Brings Plenty, Oglala Lakota Sioux is a National Queer Cysgender Indiginous Woman and has worked for over two decades for not just Indigenous people, but for everyone in community to receive medicine. Candi is completing her Masters in Public Health Administration, and has a graduate certificate in Non Profit management. On levels related to gender, race, sexual orientation, and economic background, she is unmatched in her passion and strength to push every issue forward. Candi brings Plenty is a single mother of two beautiful daughters, an educator and community health worker, and spiritual practitioner.

Court Morse has over ten years of organizing and community action experience. Court grew up in Wisconsin and came out to Oregon to attend Portland State University. There she worked with the Oregon Student Association as student body president. She has had the opportunity since to run numerous political and human rights campaigns focusing on the environment, higher education, racial and LGBT justice, and immigrant/refugee rights, primarily in Oregon. Court is enrolled with the Sault Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians, Ojibwe, Anishinaabe and goes by she or they pronouns. She attended Oceti Sakowin on four occasions with the last trip a permanent move to camp prior to eviction. She toured with the Two Spirit Nation to tell the story of Standing Rock and to support other Two-Spirit Queer Indigenous warriors, elders and youth in their work. She's proud to stand by Candi as her close friend and support her vision for our people.

Old Man Trump by Woody Guthrie

I suppose

Old Man Trump knows

Just how much

Racial Hate

he stirred up

In the bloodpot of human hearts

When he drawed

That color line

Here at his

Eighteen hundred family projectBeach Haven ain’t my home!

I just can’t pay this rent!

My money’s down the drain!

And my soul is badly bent!

Beach Haven looks like heaven

Where no black ones come to roam!

No, no, no! Old Man Trump!

Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!

Topic: Standing Rock

Interchange is a humanities project and talk show style event where artists, activists & entrepreneurs with different ideas and perspectives come together to address multiple topics and provoke thoughtful dialogue. We don’t necessarily need a solution when we’re finished, though a good mind flush of new ideas and creativity can offer wisdom and perspective to our own process and development. By doing so, we create a level platform for history, politics, religion, philosophy, criticism, ethics, self-consciousness, reason, creativity, human values and aspirations. We’ll develop our dialogue into a podcast that will be available worldwide.

Lineup:

Chuck Peck- Energy Industry

Brian Gootkin- Gallatin County Sheriff

Meg Singer- Indigenous Justice Outreach Coordinator for the ACLU

Jessica Sena- Communications Advisor, Montana Petroleum Association

Darrin Old Coyote- Former Crow Tribal Chairman

Jesse Barney- Activist

KD Segura- Organizer, Activist.

Brent Mead- Montana Policy Institute

Topics: Land use, treaty rights, our reliance on petroleum products, energy, the history of the area, the camps, activism, colonization, water protectors, police and more.

Produced by: Dylan Jesse, Justin Wayne, Susan Carstensen & Tate Chamberlin

Music: Nintendeaux & Dubuddha

Moderator(s): Tate Chamberlin & Kiah Abbey

Photo by: MT Shots Photography

(The cover art was taken during the veteran occupancy at Standing Rock in December, 2016.

AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez and Alicia Crosby share stories from the Standing Rock gathering as Christian women of color decolonizing their faith.

AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez and Alicia Crosby share stories from the Standing Rock gathering as Christian women of color decolonizing their faith.