{"id":13822,"date":"2021-07-09T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=13822"},"modified":"2021-07-09T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T14:46:15","slug":"native-sun-news-today-climbers-arrested-for-calling-for-land-back-on-fourth-of-you-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/07\/09\/native-sun-news-today-climbers-arrested-for-calling-for-land-back-on-fourth-of-you-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Climbers arrested in LANDBACK protest on \u2018Fourth of You Lie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NDN Collective: Fourth of You Lie — Rally feed, and march in Rapid City<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n
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<\/P>\r\nRAPID CITY, South Dakota — Grassroots Native treaty rights events here during the national Independence Day holiday this 4th of July featured a peaceful but spectacular civil disobedience action: Four indigenous technical climbers scaled downtown\u2019s landmark private grain elevator to drop a gigantic, inverted U.S. flag from the top.

<\/P>\r\n\u201cAn upside-down flag represents being in distress and is a prominent symbol across Indian Country,\u201d NDN Collective organizers said in a media release<\/a>. \r\n

<\/P>\r\n\u201cThat flag belongs to us. So-called Independence Day is the day that U.S. colonizers officially claimed stolen Indigenous lands as their own — the day they celebrated and continue to celebrate an outright lie that America is or has ever been a place of freedom and justice for all,\u201d they said.

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A supportive crowd watched climbers unfurl the flag, emblazoned with the slogan \u201cLANDBACK\u201d and patched with the number \u201c1,505\u201d during a peaceful Rapid City civil disobedience action that resulted in four arrests on July 4, 2021. Courtesy photo<\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nA supportive crowd watched climbers unfurl the flag, emblazoned with the slogan \u201cLANDBACK\u201d. NDN Collective generated the slogan for the 2020 Independence Day observance, when 21 demonstrators peacefully submitted to arrest in a civil disobedience action for the same treaty rights cause.

<\/P>\r\nThe flag bore a patch of \u201c1,505\u201d for the mounting number of unmarked graves detected recently during Indian boarding school investigations. \r\n

<\/P>\r\n\u201cColonial violence is why we are currently unearthing hundreds and thousands of our children at boarding schools both in the so-called United States and in so-called Canada,\u201d NDN Collective commented. There is no repair or justice until Indigenous peoples reclaim our land.\u201d\r\n

<\/P>\r\nAs the climbers descended from the 100-foot tower using its built-in exterior ladder, Rapid City police officers arrested them one-by-one for trespass. The officers searched them, zip-tied their hands, put them in the windowless rear compartment of an unmarked white police vehicle, and hauled them off to the Pennington County Jail. \r\n

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<\/p>\r\nClimber Krystal Two Bulls called on \u201cthe Indigenous peoples of the world who have been forcefully removed from their lands — at the hands of militarism, imperialism, capitalism and corporativism \u2013 to stand and join the struggle to get our LANDBACK!\u201d \r\n

<\/P>\r\nTwo Bulls, who described herself as \u201ca caretaker and protector of the Black Hills,\u201d is Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota. She is NDN Collective\u2019s LANDBACK Campaign Director. LANDBACK is a movement to reclaim Native rights, such as those guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution by the abrogated 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty that protected the Black Hills as indigenous jurisdiction. \r\n

<\/P>\r\nThe organization said the event aimed to \u201crefute the dominant narrative\u201d about the flag\u2019s symbolism. \u201cThis action marks a notch in the paradigm shift, one that has a long lineage,\u201d said climber Nadya Tannous, an NDN Collective LANDBACK campaign organizer.\r\n

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