Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger Talks Standing Rock, ND

Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota) was born not 30 yards from the Missouri River in a small town known as Fort Yates, ND on the Standing Rock Reservation. For the past year, the Dakota Access Pipeline (ETP) in collaboration with the North Dakota State police force have been trampling upon the constitutional, human, and civil rights of his people.

In this episode Cannupa shares through childhood memory, what Standing Rock means to him as a place where he simply goes home to. He also shares the story behind the namesake Standing Rock and the complexity of all Indigenous story which is overlooked in our popular culture. Cannupa speaks about the organic nature of the water protector camps, the evolution of the movement and the relationship of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to this now global movement. Cannupa also tells us about his experience as artist and water protector, participating in what ways he is able to create collaboration and empowerment for his people through artwork and actions such as the mirror shield project.

Here is the conversation with Cannupa Hanska Luger:

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Learn more about the work Cannupa Hanska Luger and crew are doing in relationship to Standing Rock at cannupahanska.com/nodapl

Image: 'Thanksgiving' day at Turtle Hill. The Boston Globe.

Image: 'Thanksgiving' day at Turtle Hill. The Boston Globe.

Conversation with Land Defender Kim Smith

Kim Smith is a Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater clan) woman, artist, organizer, activist, water protector, and board member for Honor the Earth. In this episode Kim shares a whole system approach to sustaining Indigenous life practices and reasserting our conscious participation to living on this planet. She talks about the many layers of her work as centered from solution based community organizing, and reminds us the importance that women and youth have as voices in contemporary movements, such as Standing Rock. 

Music featured on this episode by: Nahko and Medicine for the People and Rebel Diaz

More About the Artist: 

Kim Smith is a Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater clan) woman from St Michaels Arizona. As a woman of a water clan she holds her responsibilities to water dear and has dedicated her life to protecting water & her homelands from resource extraction. For the past 10 years her organizing efforts include art activism, raising awareness about resource extraction on the Diné Nation, water rights, food sovereignty, permaculture & indigenous empowerment in efforts to uphold many inherit responsibilities. As a young Diné woman looking at personal and political choices she makes efforts according to her cultural teachings and values; thinking and behaving in a way that is consistent to the teachings of ancestors and with the laws of nature. In an effort to restore balance to the land and community. 

Kim is also a board member for Honor the Earth & Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment ( Diné CARE) two pioneer indigenous environmental organizations. Kim is also the curator for a national traveling exhibition called, "The Art of Indigenous Resistance". 

WARRIORS WANTED: COME IN A GOOD WAY: Standing Rock, ND. November 26, 2016

This is the 7th episode featuring a collection of audio from live feed Facebook posts of water protectors, providing first hand accounts and information regarding what is taking place as of November 26th 2016.

LISTEN: Rebroadcasts from Standing Rock, ND November 26, 2016:

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"On December 5th, 2016 the Army Corps of Engineers has announced that they will begin evicting water protectors at Standing Rock from the Oceti Sakowin Camp. 
What they failed to acknowledge is that this movement is filled with passion, dedication, prayer, love, and a refusal to give up on what we all know to be right, and to be true. 
If you've been thinking about coming, but have hesitated, come and protect clean water. Stand with us and for mother earth. There is strength in numbers, there is strength in prayer and community, there is strength in marching with your fists open and head held high. 
The hearts of water protectors are the strongest and most powerful that I've ever known and it is an honor to be able to stand with them--join us." -Courtney Cronis

Material rebroadcast here is from the Facebook pages:

Urban Native Era
Prolific the Rapper
Christi Belcourt
Isaac Murdoch
James Uqualla’
Lakota People's Law Project Emergency press conference with Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II

This rebroadcasting is an attempt to allow this information to reach further than the one media forum of Facebook, to share this story in the way the water protectors creating these live broadcasts have asked us all to. To get the message out into the world, and break media blackout. We are the media. We are all connected. Not one single person can live without water, we are Standing Rock!

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WARRIORS WANTED: Live from Standing Rock, ND November 25, 2016

This is the sixth episode featuring a collection of live feed Facebook posts from water protectors, providing first hand accounts and information regarding what is taking place for the water protectors on November 25th 2016.

IMAGE CREDIT: Demian DinéYazhi of RISE: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment

IMAGE CREDIT: Demian DinéYazhi of RISE: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment

LISTEN: Rebroadcasts from Standing Rock, ND November 25, 2016:

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Material rebroadcast here is from the Facebook pages: 
Mykay Rajahdat Kden
Last Real Indians: Chase Iron Eyes
Digital Smoke Signals
Kash Jackson
TYT Politics
Prolific TheRapper
Waniya Locke
Indigenous Life Movement

This rebroadcasting is an attempt to allow this information to reach further than the one media forum of Facebook, to share this story in the way the water protectors creating these live broadcasts have asked us all to. To get the message out into the world, and break media blackout. We are the media. We are all connected. Not one single person can live without water, we are Standing Rock!

Please share far and wide! Break Media Blackout!!!

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WARRIORS WANTED: Live from Standing Rock, ND November 20, 2016

This is the 4TH episode featuring a collection of live feed Facebook posts from water protectors providing first hand accounts and information about what has taken place on November 20th 2016 regarding current events unfolding at Standing Rock, North Dakota.

LISTEN: Rebroadcasts from Standing Rock, ND November 20, 2016:

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Material rebroadcast here from the following Facebook pages November 20-21 2016:

Standing Rock Rising
Linda Black Elk
Digital Smoke Signals
Indigenous Rising Media
Indigenous Life Movement
TYT Politics
Shailene Woodley
Steven Jeffrey Chrisjohn
Indigenous Environmental network

This rebroadcasting is an attempt to allow this information to reach further than the one media forum of Facebook, to share this story in the way the water protectors creating these live broadcasts have asked us all to do. To get the message out into the world, and break media blackout. We are the media. We are all connected. Not one single person can live without water, we are Standing Rock!

Please share far and wide! Break Media Blackout!!!

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