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Words Are Few These Days
I have slowed down recently. I am focused on raising chickens and preparing my house for possible flooding in the coming rainy season. It is difficult to find reliable people to help around the property and I am a few months from 70 years old.
What is happening to our world?
#1 Lies Progress is like energy, everything just changes form
Everyday it is more evident that the things we grew up with, the histories we were told, the ways we do things, have all been lies or based on lies. We have been advertised, manipulated, persuaded, forced, and educated to take a path that’s sole purpose is to enrich a few. We have been brainwashed into believing that our lives are so much better now *new and improved*.
#2 Bad Health Safe and Effective
Most of the people I know now are extremely ill or suffering from various ailments. Young or old, if they took the so-called jab, they are medically in trouble. So, I limit my interactions with people. Relationships? They are based on if people are shedding viruses or not.
#3 Future Generations Off a Cliff
The young people are in trouble and are now becoming an added burden to society. They do not know how to do anything in a world where knowing basic survival skills will determine if they survive. Autism, chronic allergies, addiction, behavior problems, learning disabilities: when I retired from teaching in 2017, half my class had some sort of disability. Those students are all now adults and the upcoming group had their lives disrupted by lock downs and isolation so the future looks grim. When you think about it hard enough it is like the perfect plan to end our civilization was designed, put in place, and initiated.
#4 Inaction The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The wealthy are even more wealthy and play games with the stock market to get rich on wars and our misery. People get on their phones or computers and complain. I have a theory about that. Back in the day when people were upset about social injustice or the Vietnam War they did not sit in their house typing out their feelings, they went out in the street and organized protests, got arrested, got beat up by police, had fire hoses and tear gas turned on them. They were so angry they were willing to get uncomfortable for their ideals. Some were willing to die. And some did. I remember Kent State on the television. I also remember MLK, Maurice Bishop, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba, JFK, RFK, Indira Gandhi, Anwar Sadat, Ngo Dinh Diem, Rafael Trujillo, Salvador Allende, Abd al-Karim Qasim, the list is very long…if you do not know who these people are, become knowledgeable and look them up. These people actually stood for something and acted upon it.
Now, the protests are relegated to snarky comments on social media from the comforts of home.
As Gaza burns and genocide is permitted by the powerful.
As innocent children are bombed.
As we discover the elite class is sex trafficking, abusing, killing, and eating children.
As environmental toxins are released into the air and water.
As we are sprayed with toxins from the sky.
As our planet is poisoned.
I had protested in the street when I was young. I taught my students how to research information and how to discover lies. I taught my own kids how to respect people and themselves. I went to jail for my protests. I participated in actions, voted, wrote letters, and lived in a responsible manner.
I am now older and very disgusted to see the mess the world has become. I am sure my father, if he were alive today, would be horrified to see that all of his sacrifices have resulted in very little *progress*.
My suggestion. Build networks of like minded people you can trust. Begin setting up local economies. Learn skills to become self reliant. Buy books!
Move out of the city. This is the most important thing you can do for yourself. The whole push to get people to move into cities and away from family farms was the major reason we are in the predicament we are now in. The cities were traps. In the city a large family is a problem. In the city people can be controlled. In the city people become dependent on the government and others to provide everything. In the cities we lost the ability to provide water, food, shelter, medicine, clothing, education, and safety for ourselves. We became slaves, wage slaves stuck for hours in traffic jams to get to jobs we hated, all to make the elite class wealthy.
all to make the elite class wealthy.
all to make the elite class wealthy.
all to make the elite class wealthy.
all to make the elite class wealthy.
Uranium: DO WE NEED TO DIE FOR IT OR OF IT?
This administration has put two things on a fast track to destruction. The hot button war over Iran’s uranium destroys peace and prosperity. The rush to mine Black Hills uranium destroys people and the sacred. Both are based on manufactured crisis. Both bypass democratic oversight. Both are moving at the speed of executive commands because if either one slowed down long enough for the people to really weigh in, the answer would be no.
Congress never authorized the war in Iran. They voted four times so far and failed to stop it. The Lakota people never consented to uranium extraction from treaty land. We’ve fought it for over 20 years and we’re still fighting. Today’s fresh Hell we are forced to face down: the Dewey-Burdock uranium project, 50 miles from Pine Ridge, in the aquifer above our reservation. It was just put on Trump’s emergency federal fast-track permitting dashboard with a mere thirty-day review period starting last week.
Watch my video and take action: send your message to Burgum: “Stop fast tracking mining on Native treaty lands”
The BLM’s draft Environmental Assessment that is supposed to protect the public was prepared under executive pressure to compress review timelines from years to weeks. It defers most of its analysis to a 12-year-old study. The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty is mentioned zero times. The Programmatic Agreement resolving cultural harm to Lakota sacred sites won’t even be executed until six weeks after the comment period closes. That is not environmental review, that is a forced march.
The fast track to war bypassed Congress. The fast track to extraction bypassed the treaty. In the end, the only force that can sideline this runaway train is the consent of the governed. Here is what you can do right now:
First: Tell Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum directly. We need him to reverse the Pe’ Sla drilling permit, pull Dewey-Burdock off the fast-track program, and suspend all extractive permits on treaty lands until real consultation and a full environmental review are done. Use our existing action page. It’s fast and easy to make all three demands in one customizable letter to Burgum online here.
Second: Submit a public comment to the BLM on the Dewey-Burdock Environmental Assessment before May 14. See below for a short template message based on our assessment of the real legal failures of this review. Customize it and add your comment to the public record to make a difference when this goes to court.
Remember, the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty is the law of this land. Emergency orders don’t override it. Executive dashboards don’t override it. Your voice will have the final say. Use it.
Wopila tanka – In solidarity and struggle,
Chase Iron Eyes
Executive Director
Lakota People’s Law Project
Sacred Defense Fund
P.S. Here’s the boiled-down single paragraph template as a starting point to make your public comment submission to the BLM on Dewey-Burdock. It’s short enough for the online form field, and substantive enough to matter legally:
I oppose approval of the Dewey-Burdock Uranium ISR Plan of Operations (DOI-BLM-MT-C040-2026-0009-EA) and urge the BLM to withhold approval until a full, lawful review is completed. This draft Environmental Assessment is legally compromised on multiple grounds: it asks the public to comment before the Programmatic Agreement resolving cultural harm to Lakota sacred sites is executed, inverting the Section 106 process required by the National Historic Preservation Act; it analyzes only 4.2 acres while ignoring the 10,580-acre uranium operation those acres exist to enable, in violation of NEPA’s prohibition on project segmentation; it uses pre-existing groundwater contamination as a reason to minimize further harm to the same aquifer that flows toward Pine Ridge Reservation; and it contains no environmental justice analysis for the Native communities most at risk. The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, which governs the United States’ relationship to these lands, is mentioned zero times. I urge the BLM to extend the comment period, prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement, conduct meaningful government-to-government consultation with the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and withhold approval until all legal requirements are met.
Lakota People’s Law Project
P.O. Box 27
Santa Fe, NM 87504
United States
Leonard Peltier: Life as a Free Man
“So what has the past year been like for the 81-year-old who spent 49 years and two months behind bars?
In an interview with ICT this week, Peltier said life has been pretty good since being released following former President Biden’s decision to grant him clemency as he was leaving office on Jan. 20, 2025.”
Click the link to read more. When he was set free it was the best news I had all year.
*Please note. I have not posted as much lately because I am raising chickens and taking care of my property by myself. I have turned to using most of my time offline. Too much technical interference going on. Most of you know what I mean. Leonard is a free man. I am freeing myself from technical slavery. I will now post maybe once or twice a month.
Last Post of 2025 from Lakota People`s Law Project
A very happy New Year from all of us at Lakota Law! Our team thanks you from the bottom of our hearts for your good spirit and support throughout 2025. This year’s theme seemed to be great change amidst new leadership. Heads of state here and abroad instituted violent policies and practices which caused great upheaval and disrupted too many lives. But, with your help, Lakota Law modeled a different way of doing things. Together with you, in our own first year of full Indigenous leadership, we fought back.
Your friendship supported our relentless battle against human and constitutional rights violations and helped grow our Sacred Defense legal team, work, and programming. Your good will helped build increased solidarity with Indigenous people and movements with sovereign Native nations. A big wopila to you for making these things possible! Now, if you can donate one more time before the end of the tax year, you’ll help empower our communities and campaigns in 2026 and the years to come!
As the sun sets on 2025, let’s rise again together in 2026!
In 2025, you helped us make a difference by supporting sovereignty in Hawaii and amplifying the need for disaster relief in Alaska. You empowered our creation of the “Original Homegrowns” series of videos, detailing attacks on Indigenous people — not just those crossing borders, but those born right here. And you sent thousands of messages to state leaders to stop construction of new detention camps for migrants.
You helped us provide valuable media support to Elaine Miles, a respected Native actor harassed by ICE agents near her homelands in the Pacific Northwest. And — in the wake of a horrific family tragedy resulting from the negligence of the state’s foster care system — supporters like you sent thousands of emails to the Arizona State Senate, inspiring its unanimous vote to create Emily’s Law. Arizona’s new “turquoise alert” system will now help keep Indigenous people, particularly vulnerable young ones, safer.
Additionally, you helped us increase our programming under the wider Sacred Defense umbrella, particularly with the rebrand and relaunch of our Last Real Indians Native News Desk. With a limited staff, we’ve already become a go-to Indian Country news outlet, with several stories republished in major media. In 2026, we’ll expand our staff, coverage, media partnerships, and reach.
A special thanks to all who joined Lakota Law’s membership circle this year and attended our membership events, including our Sacred Summer series. Lakota Law membership is now at an all-time high of more than 2,500 people! We can’t wait to engage further with you in the year to come, continue to demonstrate the power of Indigenous leadership, and take our work together to new heights.
Wopila tanka — thank you for making good things happen with us!
Chase Iron Eyes
Executive Director
Lakota People’s Law Project
Sacred Defense Fund
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Wopila: December 2, Tuesday
It’s almost time for one of our most exciting events of the year! If you’ve been with us for some time, you may be familiar with our Wopila Gathering — an online celebration we hold every Giving Tuesday to share the spirit of wopila and Indigenous knowledge and culture with the world. This year’s fifth annual gathering is scheduled for 5 p.m. MST (4 PST/7 EST) on Tuesday, Dec. 2. We hope you can be with us, because the program is absolutely stacked with goodness.
This year’s theme is The Spiritual Resistance: Sustaining Sovereignty and Culture in Troubled Times. In addition to organizing, legal, and program updates from Lakota Law’s team, we’re bringing in Native musical artists and knowledge keepers from all four directions across Indian country. We’re particularly excited you’ll be able to hear from tribal leaders — including Chuck Hoskin, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation — and enjoy music from Nataanii Means, Rain from Heaven, Nanibaah, destroykasmin, and our own Tokata Iron Eyes. Please mark your calendars, RSVP here, and then join us on Dec. 2 at give.lakotalaw.org for the event!
Our theme and participants this year are consciously chosen to address the current moment. Across Turtle Island and around the world, Indigenous communities face tremendous challenges — legal battles, climate threats, political upheaval, and ongoing attacks on our rights and our ways of life. But through ceremony, through culture, through art and music and the unbroken lines of our traditional teachings, we remain strong.
Our spiritual resistance is more than survival — it is the active, daily practice of sovereignty. It is the protection of our homelands and our relatives. It is the renewal of our languages and our kinship systems. It is the courage to keep standing in full humanity, even when the world tries to silence us. We engage in the practice of wopila — of giving our heartfelt gratitude — for all those who participate in this resistance, and we invite all our relations and allies to stand with us on Dec. 2 as we build a future worthy of our ancestors.
This is our biggest fundraiser of the year — and we make sure the experience is reciprocal. You’ll hear incredible and uplifting music and presentations that highlight not just our own concerns and voices as Lakota People, but also those of our relatives from as far away as Hawaii and Alaska. It’s going to be an enlightening and amazing day, so please feel free to share this invitation with anyone and everyone interested in sharing in the music and conversation, learning more about our cultures, and helping to forward tribal sovereignty and win Indigenous justice.
Wopila tanka — thank you, always, for being a valued friend to us.
Chase Iron Eyes
Executive Director
Lakota People’s Law Project
Sacred Defense Fund
P.S. Please RSVP and join us for our fifth annual Wopila Gathering — a joyful day of music, culture, and conversation — on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 2. With your participation and that of so many of our talented and generous friends, we believe this will be our best event yet!
ICT’s Guide to Indigenous Peoples Day events
Not Right versus Left – A Complete Collapse of the U.S. Myth
I have a short, one-question quiz for you today. What does Wounded Knee have in common with Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland? At a glance, perhaps not much. But the rights and sovereignty of people across Turtle Island are now at risk as the federal government, as it did at Wounded Knee in 1890 and again in 1973, is sending armed troops into American cities to violently subjugate the people of this land.
We need to talk about this moment, what it means for our constitutional sovereignty, and what we can do about it. That’s why we’ll be hosting our next Lakota Law Membership Circle Event — Indigenous and Constitutional Sovereignty at Risk — at 5 p.m. PST on Wednesday, Oct. 29. Tokata will host, and I’ll be joined by our legal team to share our perspectives. Please become a Lakota Law member (for just $10 — the price of one fancy coffee!) to take part in this important discussion.
The invasions of left-leaning U.S. cities are not happening in a vacuum. The troops are there to accomplish three things. They’re enforcing the Trump administration’s racist and inhumane immigration policies, and they’re providing a means of distraction — a way to keep the American people from addressing, or even seeing, the corruption, grift, and scandal that should be synonymous with this version of the executive branch.
Perhaps most importantly, they’re sending a clear message that resistance, dissent, and demonstration — cornerstone First Amendment rights of our constitutional republic — will not be tolerated. Last week, Trump codified this ethos by issuing a national security memorandum that further erodes the rights of all U.S. citizens. It seeks to label those questioning the policies and methodologies of the administration as domestic terrorists — familiar territory from where I sit, as it’s exactly what happened to me and my family at Standing Rock in 2017.
The (same old) cavalry is coming, and I suggest that should be of comfort to absolutely nobody. In our homelands, it started with Custer, whom some descendants of the original immigrant settlers still love to exult and celebrate as a hero. In reality, he was a butcher of noncombatants, a gutter of women, children, and elders. His armed compatriots then earned Congressional Medals of Honor for doing the same to Native People who believed the Ghost Dance (incorporating elements of Christ consciousness) might bring about much needed shifts for our human family.
Fast forward 135 years, and our nation and our world are still badly in need of such a shift. Once again, large swathes of the population have bought into a mythology foisted upon them by the nefarious agents of the blood profiteer war machine — the main beneficiaries of government largess — at the continued expense of life, liberty, and happiness.
Many more of us are waking up to the reality that this is it; we must engage with everything we have in the existential battle to preserve our constitutional, civil, and human rights. It’s time to unite and fight! So, my relative, I hope I’ll see you on Oct. 29 to talk more about what we can and will do together to protect our sovereignty.
Wopila tanka — thank you for fighting for justice!
Chase Iron Eyes
Executive Director
Lakota People’s Law Project
Sacred Defense Fund
P.S. Please join us as a Lakota Law member today and join us on Zoom on Oct. 29 for this important online conversation!
****Please take note of the complete shift in the political landscape. It is no longer left versus right. What is happening now is the total corruption and collapse of government. The U.S. experiment in democracy is over. The U.S. government is sponsoring and supporting genocide in Gaza. The prior and the current administration is complicit. Remember this in your discussions. RM
Water is Life 