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Wind Cave National Park is named for the Cave itself, called Washun Niya, or the Breathing Hole of Mother Earth, by the Lakota People.
So it is that in 2012, the time of change and transformation in an American election year, and also according to the Mayan Calendar, we find that the smallness and the greatness of humans in a world around us, comes face to face with us in the Black Hills. A most sacred place- Pe’Sla, in the center of the Lakota Universe is up for sale, and values and questions clash.
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There is a piece on this issue by Georgianne Nienaber @ Huffington Post blogs, with a video by Lastrealindians and a photo of Winona LaDuke:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/lakota-sacred-grounds-...
Unrelated to the Pe’Sla issue, a very interesting photo essay piece on the Lakota was published yesterday on the NYTimges website, having to do with journalist Aaron Huey trying to make amends for criticisms about him being a "poverty tourist" at Pine Ridge:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/photographing-and-listening-to-...
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 1:59pm
Thanks, ArtA. The odd thing about the second link is, no matter how many times you go back to the rez and take pics or listen to the people there, you will still never know the real story. It's that protected.
by wabby on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 2:18pm
Beginning the essay with the unsupported premise the Assange is a coward, and that his cowardice explains his actions, taints the entire piece as far as I am concerned and reveals an attitude demonstrated through its entire length. Then, pretending that answering to the sexual assault charges in Sweden is the reason he is afraid to go to Sweden is an obvious diversion and a further attempt at demonization. It is a hit piece which does not make any attempt to present fair analysis.
Assange has been driven into a corner and is hoping to escape. Who, in Assange's situation, considering recent history and facing the prospect of incarceration in the U.S, military prison system, would not attempt to find a safe haven? I imagine that if he had the chance he might pick some other country and I do not believe that taking his only option, Ecuador, sheds any accusatory light on either his character or the facts of his different cases.
The other links go to articles which are even weaker, IMO, [especially the third] and which have been refuted many times already. I am packing for a trip and will not [probably] find the time to look up and link to any of the rebuttals but I will ask you: Do you consider any of the articles you offer here to be making strong cases that over-ride the counter arguments? Do you offer these links to support your own conclusions? Do you think that Assange is wrong to fear extradition to the U.S.? Do you think that his Wikileaks actions legitimately count as wrong and legitimately punishable under U.S. law? Would you give any of your linked opinion articles a passing grade?
by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 2:29pm
Sorry, Flower. This comment obviously belonged in another place. My bad.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 2:33pm
No prob, Lulu.
by wabby on Sat, 08/18/2012 - 6:01pm