In 1989, Lakota activist and AIM leader Russell Means stood before Congress to deliver a fiery and unapologetic speech about Native sovereignty and independence. Speaking not as a “minority” within the United States, but as a representative of sovereign nations, he challenged the very foundation of U.S. policy toward Indigenous peoples.Means declared that American Indians are not “wards of the state,” but citizens of their own nations, bound by treaties with the United States, treaties that the

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Oglala Lakota Spiritual Leader Richard Moves Camp shares why the Oglala Lakota use “how many winters are you?” Instead of “how many years are you?” There was a spiritual month during the winter that was meant to uplift, inspire, and strengthen our entire being. Moves Camp is well respected amongst various Tribal Nations and medicine practitioners around the world. My Grandfather’s Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition. Moves Camp is the gre

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