Indigenous human rights film festival group In Cooperation with Bluestockings. Present: A unique special Event: Week-long festival of Indigenous Nations and Peoples from around the World will take place at the Bluestockings book store as well as the International Action Center in New York City. Hosted by WBAI Radio producer Tiokasin Ghosthorse-Cheyenne Lakota:
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Please note that the dates of these events are final, but some of the events are subject to change. Visit our web site for the latest updates and corrections and we are Updating the events with more details daily.
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-Monday, May 18. Bluestockings – 7:00 P.M.
“Cultural Mapping, Colonization Impact from Columbus through the Buffalo war till now.”
Film Screening and a conversation:
Rosalie Little Thunder Sicangu Lakota, Her first language is Lakota, which she has been teaching for more than 30 years. She is currently an adjunct professor at Black Hills State University, co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign,Chairperson Person of The Seventh Generation Fund.
Rosalie Little Thunder has developed “Cultural Mapping,” which is a description of the Lakota Worldview and the refined disciplines that helped Lakota people to survive in a very responsible manner (pre-Columbus). “Cultural Mapping” is being used as a means of cultural healing for people affected by oppression, poverty and colonization regardless of the time and space.
Film Screening: The Buffalo war
The Buffalo Field Campaign has been on the front lines, leading the struggle to save the last wild herd of bison in Yellowstone National Park and has advocated to protect sacred lands. This season’s bison slaughter in Yellowstone National Park has reached an historic high not seen since the 19th century when bison were nearly wiped out.
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/
http://www.7genfund.org/media_center/photo/rosalie-little-thunder/122
-Tuesday May 19, Bluestockings – 7:00 P.M
“America’s Secret Chernobyl.”
Meet The defenders of the Black Hills-Paha Sapa.
A film screening:”Indigenous Voices of the 21st Century?”
A conversation and talk: “America’s Secret Chernobyl.”
with: Charmaine White Face whose Lakota name is Zumila Wobaga:The Spokesperson Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council , a Biologist, Physical Scientist, former educator, writer and the founder and Coordinator for Defenders of the Black Hills and the Recipient of the Austrian 2007 Nuclear-Free Future Resistance Award.
Also presents: Garvard Good Plume ,Clifford White Eyes Sr and Janice Badhorse Larson.
“America’s Secret Chernobyl.”World War II ended with the nuclear bomb and introduced the use of nuclear energy for the production of electricity which caused the price of uranium to rise. Uranium mining in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota began in the middle of the 1960s. As the economy of the Midwestern states depends primarily on agriculture, when uranium was discovered in the region, many get-rich-quick schemes were adopted. For more than forty years, the people of South Dakota and beyond, have been subjected to radioactive polluted dust and water runoff from the hundreds of abandoned open pit uranium mines, processing sites, underground nuclear power stations, and waste dumps.
-Wed, May 20. Bluestockings- 7:00 P.M.
“Sacred Indigenous places, Broken Treaties and human rights Violations.
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Film Screening; In the Light of Reverence.
*Note:This film is a must see film. For us at the The International Indigenous Human Rights Film Festival group this film is one of the most important films that ever made about the Indigenous Peoples Struggle to maintain their dignity, Sovereignty and the respect for the Sacred places.
A conversation follow with the people who are involve with the particular Sacred sites that the film deals with: Caleen Sisk-Franco the Spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu in California-Mt. Shasta.
The Lakota of the Mato Paha -Bear butte, Paha Sapa-black hills and Mato Tipila- so called-devil tower. The Apache the case of Mountain graham and the Border wall and activists from the Diné- navajo nation.
Also, we will be joined with other International Indigenous Peoples dealing with the Issue of desecration of Sacred sites.
* Devils Tower. The Four Corners. Mount Shasta. All places of extraordinary beauty — and impassioned controversy — as Natives and non-Natives struggle to co-exist with very different ideas about how the land should be used. For Native Americans, the Hopi in Arizona, Lakota in the Black Hills, and the Wintu in California, the land is sacred and akin to the world’s greatest cathedrals. For Americans, “the land should be used for industry and recreation…”
-Thursday, May 21. Bluestockings-7:00 P.M.
” Changing the Climate Change Discourse”
Film Screening: Yakoana – The Voice of Indigenous Peoples.
In cooperation with Land is life-The International network of indigenous communities and organizations.
A Conversation with: Marcos Terena, leader of the Terena Tribe in the Amazon. Viktor Kaisiepo Papua Customary Council-West Papua
And other guests.
- Sat, May 23 Two different events:
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Sat, May 23 -4:00 P.M.@ IAC.The International Action Center.
Meet The defenders of the Black Hills-Paha Sapa.
A film screening:”Indigenous Voices of the 21st Century?”
A conversation and talk: “America’s Secret Chernobyl.”
with: Charmaine White Face whose Lakota name is Zumila Wobaga:The Spokesperson Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council , a Biologist, Physical Scientist, former educator, writer and the founder and Coordinator for Defenders of the Black Hills and the Recipient of the Austrian 2007 Nuclear-Free Future Resistance Award.
Also presents: Garvard Good Plume ,Clifford White Eyes Sr and Janice Badhorse Larson.
“America’s Secret Chernobyl.”World War II ended with the nuclear bomb and introduced the use of nuclear energy for the production of electricity which caused the price of uranium to rise. Uranium mining in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota began in the middle of the 1960s. As the economy of the Midwestern states depends primarily on agriculture, when uranium was discovered in the region, many get-rich-quick schemes were adopted. For more than forty years, the people of South Dakota and beyond, have been subjected to radioactive polluted dust and water runoff from the hundreds of abandoned open pit uranium mines, processing sites, underground nuclear power stations, and waste dumps.
-Sat, May 23. Bluestockings @ 7:00 P.M.
Anna Pinto Presentation: REDD- or reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. “Blood money and the World Bank”: With Anna Pinto (Manipur, India)-Executive Director Centre for Organization Research & Education (Indigenous Peoples’ Centre for Policy and Human Rights in India’s Eastern Himalayan Territories)
@ 7:30 Film world primer “Palabra india” A conversation follows film maker: Mario Agreda
The film show the struggle and the continuous fight against the international institutions in this case the world Bank and the misguided policy by some of the Indigenous representatives to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues-UNPFII. The highlights of the film take place during the 7 SESSION of the UNPFII.
Indigenous Peoples representatives and organizations held a protest during the final day of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues-UNPFII. The delegates were angered over the Permanent Forum’s decision to endorse the World Bank’s REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries) initiative, and various other “carbon market solutions” to climate change.
-Sunday 24 Blue stockings 7:00
- A Massai presentation that feature among others: Ben R. Ole Koissaba The chairman of the Maa Civil Society Forum in Kenya.
- Conversations With the Earth
Global Climate change, impact and the Indigenous Peoples. Different locally produced videos and discussions with representatives of different Indigenous Nations In assuming their rightful role as equal partners in humankind’s search for solutions, indigenous peoples are leading the way to true climatic adaptation—but they are also providing living arguments for prevention without delay. Right now, in defiance of such important international instruments as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, global policy makers have paid scant attention to demands of indigenous peoples, limiting their participation in climate change negotiations to the status of observers.: Massai, West Papua, the Zapara and The Huaorani/Waodani people in Ecuador, The Batwa Pygmy in Rwanda and other indigenous nations.
In Cooperation with Land is life-The International network of indigenous communities and organizations.
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Monday, May 25 IAC 7:00
A conversations With Steven Newcomb: Shawnee/Lenape, is indigenous law research coordinator in the education department of the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation in San Diego.
A columnist-indian country today
Author of “Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery”
International Action Center. 55 W. 17 St., Suite 5C
- Thursday 28, 10:A.M.
*Listen Live to WBAI.org Radio, 99.5 FM to:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse interview with: Steven New Comb and Charmin white face.
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-Thursday 28 at 7:00 P.M. @ BlueStockings
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Paradigm of Earth: Indigenous Resistance and Truth”
Steven Newcomb and Charmin white face.
“This life code that no scientist has ever managed to unveil rests with the Indians. You don’t have to look any further. Are you prepared for that? Is the contemporary world prepared for what we want to convey after 500 years of silence?”
Marcos Terena, leader of the Terena Nation in the Amazon.
Meet Marcos Terena at the Bluestockings, Thursday, May 21
*International Action Center Solidarity Center.212.633.6646
55 W. 17 St., Suite 5C
*Bluestockings.172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
212.777.6028
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