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North Dakota authorities using heavy handed tactics on Water Protectors. Photo: Facebook / Sacred Stone Camp, Rob Wilson Photography. |
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This week combined, heavily armed paramilitary forces with armored vehicles, helicopters, and sound
cannon attacked a large unarmed prayer service at a Construction site on the Dakota Pipeline. Construction workers had abandoned their equipment and fled
as Native Americans led by the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies approached the site. There were reports of teargas canisters being dropped from the helicopters. 27 were arrested in one day. It was a dramatic
escalation of the use of state power
against on-going protests which
have resulted in an unprecedented unity between
Native nations from across the U.S.A., North America, and Latin America and support from aboriginal peoples across the globe.
Photo by my old college pal Bill Delaney at Art Alley Gallery in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Tonto Will Not Ride into Town for You
For The Camp of the Sacred Stone 9/30/2016
Tonto will not ride into town for you,
Kemosabe,
and
be beat to pulp by the bad guys
on
your fool’s errand.
Pocahontas will not throw her nubile,
naked body
over
your blonde locks
to
save you from her Daddy’s war club.
Squanto will not show you that neat
trick
with
the fish heads and maize
and
will watch you starve on rocky shores.
Chingachgook will save his son and
lineage
and
let you and your White women
fall
at Huron hands and be damned.
Sacajawea and her babe will not show
you the way
or
introduce you to her people,
and
leave you lost and doomed in the Shining Mountains.
Sitting Bull will not wave and parade
with your Wild West Show
nor
Geronimo pose for pictures for a dollar
in
fetid Florida far from home.
They are on strike form your folklore
and fantasy,
have
gathered with the spirits of all the ancestors
to
dance on the holy ground, the rolling prairie
where
the buffalo were as plentiful
as
the worn smooth stones of the Mnišoše,
the
mighty river that flows forever.
They are called by all the nations from
the four corners
of
the turtle back earth who have gathered here,
friends
and cousins, sworn enemies alike,
united
now like all of the ancestors
to
kill the Black Snake, save the sacred water,
the
soil where the bones of ancestors rest,
and
the endless sky where eagle, Thunderbird, and Raven turn.
Tonto has better things to do,
Kemosabe…
—Patrick
Murfin
Powerful!
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