{"id":4618,"date":"2020-11-16T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2020-11-16T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:47:47","slug":"elizabeth-cook-lynn-ancestors-have-given-us-the-courage-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/11\/16\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-ancestors-have-given-us-the-courage-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Cook-Lynn: Ancestors\u00a0have given us the courage to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"\"campmniluzahan\"\r\n
Gathering firewood at Camp Mni Luzahan, a tipi encampment located on tribally-owned trust land in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Photo \u00a9 Independent Media Project<\/figcaption>\r\n
What do YOU stand by and defend?<\/div>\r\n
Monday, November 16, 2020<\/div>\r\n
By Professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn<\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Today Columnist<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\n\u201cCreek Patrol created Camp Miniluzahan\u00a0on tribal land outside of Rapid City on Sunday\u201d read the headline in the Rapid City Journal on October 12, 2020.

<\/p>\r\nThe \u201ctribal lands\u201d spoken of here are part of the hills and forest that are the lands stolen and claimed (1880) and occupied illegally by an imposed white-man regime of invaders called Americans stretching up into the lush acres of homelands where the Sioux Nation has lived for thousands of years. \u00a0

<\/p>\r\nThe public is told today that the site of the Creek Patrol camp is part of the 1,200 acre Rapid City Boarding School property that was owned and operated by the Department of the Interior from 1898-1933. Its title is still contested since it is the treaty lands of a sovereign tribal People.

<\/p>\r\nIt is, in itself,\u00a0a continuation of land issue violence stemming from one of the most famous historical land theft crimes of all of Indian country,\u00a0the Black Hills. (Reference: 1868-1920-1980).\u00a0

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Courtesy photo\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nIts so-called legitimacy stems, the thieves say, from 1948 when the US Congress passed a law that said the school land could be broken up and sold to Christian churches,\u00a0freely given to the city and\u00a0the\u00a0state run\u00a0district and\u00a0the Military,\u00a0namely the National Guard. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nAll of this historical fundamentalist narrative created by the State of South Dakota as it assumed control ten years after statehood was achieved, (1889) is in violation of the Peace Treaty of Fort Laramie signed by the US and the Sioux Nation. This is not just the opinion of local writers and scholars and bystanders and Sioux Indians. It is in the records of a 1980 Supreme Court decision. \u00a0\r\n

<\/p>\r\nIt is a remarkable achievement by a colonizing legal system that the silence of that hideous,\u00a0anti-Indian (racist) violent act of\u00a0theft\u00a0continues into a 1948 certified congressional document and remains silent. In spite\u00a0of the lack of appropriate oversight,\u00a0this story\u00a0has become\u00a0part of the current understanding. Indian historians such as\u00a0the now\u00a0deceased legal scholar Vine Deloria,\u00a0(Yankton Sioux Tribal member)\u00a0have written about these matters saying that\u00a0the massacre of the Sioux continues when Congressional\u00a0Acts prevail. His work does not celebrate the colonial takeover in such matters.\r\n

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