Lakota warrior sings a Lakota victory song on the Senate floor after Keystone XL is defeated

[peoli]

[NYC_SKP]

1. Thank you for posting this!

K/R

[Fred Sanders]

2. The Lakota Sioux Nation is going be there to the end on this, and they are formidable folk.

[Warpy]

4. I have a feeling that section of pipe will generate plenty of jobs

but not the kind Keystone particularly wants to generate.

[Warpy]

3. As wonderful as this is

it won't be enough. You know the oil barons will just force it back again and again until their filthy oil is being pumped through a leaky pipeline that brings no benefit to anyone but the oil barons.

Their multiple votes against the ACA show us that, wasting time and money doing futile things while Americans continue to sink farther into poverty every year because they just can't be arsed to care.

[oldandhappy]

7. yep Back again with the new congress.

Some how all the oil spills have not deterred the advocates. And now we know no real jobs or really few jobs, and all the oil for export. Nutz.

[Thespian2]

15. Maybe

the Lakotas will destroy the line every time TransCanada tries to build it across their lands. Past time that the GREEDY BASTARDS start to lose.

[Chiquitita]

5. love it.

That was sublime.

[Dont call me Shirley]

6. Here's the voter role...

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00280

[Demeter]

11. Not a single Republican voted against

and far too many Democrats (13) voted for...looks like a herd of DINOs to me, although I'm not 100% up on the roll call....

[calimary]

12. One more DINO might soon be gone. Mary Landrieu may not survive this time.

Man we had to fight tooth and nail to save her ass six years ago, too.

[NCarolinawoman]

8. Makes me want to cry with a bit of happiness,

even though I know it's still an up hill battle. Except for the 60's and 70's, it always has been this ongoing battle.

[DeSwiss]

9. In Lak'ech Ala K'in

K&R

[Demeter]

10. Now, that's just rubbing salt in the wound!

Good for him!

It will counteract all that Bible-thumping and prayer to the Great White God that goes on regularly, at least a bit.

[cvoogt]

13. restore order?

That Lakota singer is the one person who actually restored order. Everyone else was out of order.

[panfluteman]

14. We should turn the country back to the Native Americans.

We've done such a disastrously poor job as stewards of the country, and of the land.

[freshwest]

16. Tears in my eyes. Just as when the First Nations and tribes across the USA did a pow wow for a cause

I was involved in a decade ago as well they came to support us with drums on another day resisting the wrong headed actions of the state and private forces.

We did not win the battle that day and people died, but we won the war, as they say from coming as many people for what was right to do.

Knowing their hearts were with us still humbles me. The battle is never over, though, and we must come togther as one until the destroyers are pushed back into the darkness where they belong.

Thanks for posting this, you made my morning!

[swilton]

17. How appropriate!

"We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us." Chief Seattle


A multimedia presentation, interpreted and narrated by Wes Felty:
Chief Seattle's reply to a Government offer to purchase the remaining Salish lands:

http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/chiefsea.html

[turbinetree]

18. WONDERFUL (S'gi) Thank you

Tears came to my eyes to hear the FIRST NATION, the proud People who know how to live with the our Mother Earth and to once again here the song of victory . I cannot fully express into words how I feel right now how chiefs came to this capital looking for respect and solutions and getting nothing except words on treaties that meant nothing, AND WE SAW NONE, ZILCH, NADA, IN THE MEDIA, but we have it here and I say Thank you (S'gi) from the Cherokee Nation, but this Lakota song SAYS MORE ---- A LOT MORE