{"id":929,"date":"2020-09-22T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=929"},"modified":"2020-09-22T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:42:20","slug":"native-sun-news-today-activists-seek-command-center-for-tribal-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/22\/native-sun-news-today-activists-seek-command-center-for-tribal-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Activists seek ‘command center’ for tribal community"},"content":{"rendered":"\"unitingresilience\"
Monique \u201cMuffie\u201d Mousseaux speaks at Memorial Park. Chase Iron Eyes responds: The cause is \u201ca most difficult issue as we have no remedial options for our people on the creek. They are exiled in their homeland.\u201d Photo by Talli Nauman \/ Native Sun News Today<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n
Rallying for the homeless<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, September 22, 2020<\/div>\r\n
By Talli Nauman<\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor<\/div>\r\n
nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nRAPID CITY \u2013 Participants from numerous grassroots groups tackling life-or-death issues of Native homeless and other community members highly vulnerable to the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a> here rallied for an autonomous \u201ccommand center\u201d at a September 11 gathering outside the civic center.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nOrganizers, speaking with a megaphone, pressured the Rapid City Police Department representative in attendance at the ominiciye to lobby for a meeting with the mayor and city council to collaborate on ending the suffering and deaths along Rapid Creek.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cWhat has been happening is death to our people and violence to our people,\u201d said Oglala Sioux tribal member Monique \u201cMuffie\u201d Mousseaux, speaker for Uniting Resilience.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nParticipants noted that they have mounted an independent Mni Luzahan Rapid Creek Patrol to walk the riverbanks at night, interceding to prevent hunger, exposure, violence, abuse, accidents, and fatalities.\r\n

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Mni luzahan Creek Patrol<\/a>

The Mni luzahan Creek Patrol is a grassroots effort to protect the homeless in Rapid City, SD<\/p>Posted by Bryan Brewer for OST Vice-President<\/a> on Saturday, September 12, 2020<\/blockquote><\/div>\r\n

Mni Luzahan Creek Patrol is a grassroots effort to protect the homeless in Rapid City, South Dakota. Video: Bryan Brewer for OST Vice-President<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nMouseaux called on the city to \u201callocate a strip of land so we can have a command center.\u201d She also demanded access for Native people to policy making in crime prevention and social services.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cWe are asking for a spot to be left alone,\u201d she said. Noting that she is a former law enforcement officer, she added, \u201cNatives can take care of each other. We are drug- and alcohol-free.\u201d\r\n

<\/p>\r\nShe alluded to autonomous zones established in the larger cities of Minneapolis and Portland even before 2020\u2019s unrest over alleged police brutality and systemic racism that was ticked off by the proclaimed officer-involved murder of George Floyd.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want any more repression,\u201d said Mousseaux. \u201cWith George Floyd in Minneapolis, you know it is happening.\u201d\r\n

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