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Interchange – Facing America at Standing Rock

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Even elementary schools are now teaching what was always factual about the conquest of this land mass–Northern Europeans came and murdered as many indigenous people as possible. Treaties were made to be broken. Herded onto desolate reservations, dying by the thousands en route, the native people of this land were treated as one race of lesser beings–portrayed as devils and barbarians. What is the legacy of this history? We are witnessing this dismissive denigration and abuse of people right now, it’s not 1616 or 1816 but 2016…and the confrontation at Standing Rock in North Dakota which pits a corporate energy company and their state police force collaborators against native people protecting sacred lands and water supplies is one as old as imperial conquest.

GUESTS
Davina Two Bears is a member of the Navajo Nation from northern Arizona who worked for 14 years as an archaeologist and a program manager for the Navajo Nation archaeology Department at Northern Arizona University. She’s currently a PhD Candidate at Indiana University- Bloomington in the Department of Anthropology’s archaeology of the social context PhD program researching a Navajo Indian Boarding in Arizona. And Davina is a volunteer DJ here at WFHB for “Native Spirit” – Indiana’s only Native American/First Nations music radio show.

Terri Miles is a Muscogee (Creek) citizen, Sac & Fox family member, and Seminole descendant. Born and raised in Chicago, she moved to Bloomington in 2006 to pursue a Ph.D. in criminal justice. She currently works for a social service agency in Bloomington.

Kelly Tudor is the Indiana Representative for the American Indian Movement (AIM) Chapter of Indiana and Kentucky. She is a Lipan Apache, who’s been an activist for 15 years. She works as an EMT.

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Kite Line: December 2, 2016- Dignity in Detention, from Standing Rock to the Spanish State
“Facing the Black Snake” by Terri Miles
Police Violence Against Native Americans Goes Far Beyond Standing Rock
Treaty of Fort Laramie with Sioux, Etc., 1851

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