hello welcome to peace some on the earth today i have my guest with me or shanna got twenty two and we're going to be talking about the standing rock situation and kind of like what maybe what led to you know all the elements that led to this situation and and what we can do about it and i'd like to start out with a po em addresses that issue it's called relative our prayers touch in the heavens above above these dungeons our prayers touch communing with spirit brothers and sisters and earth our mother our prayers touch peace  with well i wanted to start with the prayer that you just said ok that our prayers touch ok is indeed a huge essence of what is happening and what we can do right now it's kind of starting  beginning at the ending what we can do is that our prayers for the earth for the water and for the people they touch have the prayers that we say here the prayers at standing rock there touching one another we are all coming together in that spirit of prayer to make a difference so that's a very beautiful prayer to start i talk with yeah so what's started this historically or standing rock itself right now was h well maybe has switched historically i was just let's just reflect on a more immediate part of history ok not that immediate quite in over well over a hundred years but in the eighteen fifty one for laramie treaty granted a huge amount of land to look the locoed dakota nakota tribes for their sustenance for their health and wellbeing for their hunting for their gathering and for their use and it was a much larger is recognised now what happened is when gold was discovered in the black hills the fort laramie treaty was broken and settlers came colonizers came war broke out all kinds of battles for the gold for the land and the treaty was there with definitely broken pretty severely and we had the incident also historically for that it wounded me so throughout history the treaties of the land that have been granted to the lakota tribes have been broken and the land mass has been made smaller and smaller and small most all trees the main camp or the seven council fires capt is actually sitting one mile off of or less than a mile off of the reservation boundary that is recognized today by the government but it is indeed on land that was granted to the tribes in the fort laramie treaty so the our army corps of engineers has taken that land and claimed it as their own but it is indeed unseeded treaty land that land was never given to the government in agreement with the tribes it was stolen by force by force violence or additionally the like a was he where the they are wanting to drill under is the result of a dam that was made on the missouri river and when they went to build that dam the surface area under like a lot he was a lick ota village in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight they remove the people and they flooded them out and they made the lake that stands there now so this is somewhat of a double whammy you know we took your land we flooded it we chased your people away now we want to take your land again and put this pipeline through it without consulting you without regard or respect for your gravesites  are even registered historic places and graves that are not being respected at this time by the energy transfer partnership and bridge and the thing that will call dapple dakota access pipeline so when we say not of it this this whole pipeline was done without a permit either without a real permit well the real permit the above the board way to do it would have been to recognize the seven thousand nine hundred some odd miles of pipeline as one large project and requested an environmental impact statement for the entire project which is a huge endeavor and includes a nepa national environmental policy act that looks for archaeology it looks for all of the factors that were not considered because the energy transferred the dapple companies applied for permits on smaller sections of the pipeline at a time by doing smaller sections of the national energy act or pie i can remember the name pipeline act by applying for smaller areas to be permitted they avoided having to consult with the tribes they avoided having to get a huge environmental impact statement and they avoided all of the necessary investigation by the army corps and the department of interior and other areas that would have shown indeed that there were registered sacred sites there and that these lands could not be disturbed so with this woman it started with one woman well it started with more than one woman but the original call out came from a woman named la donna brave paul who owns land outside of cannonball on the edge  you know on the reservation area and she had a son who passed away sadly and he was buried on that land of hers and when she discovered the pipeline was coming through the area she did not want her son's grave to be desecrated no she did not want anything to happen to the land not only around the grave but the water she recognized the water would be threatened so she made a video and called for help and at first it was for sixty ps or eight or ten t v s and pretty soon hundreds of people came and the army corps of engineers gave permission to the standing rock tribe to actually have this camp that we see right here that is on army corps of land they call it but it is a look code a land unseeded eight hundred fifty one forty laramie treaty of land right there and so the camp grew as it grew from lead on his property which was smaller and they were starting to have overflow and it went from one hundred to two hundred to a thousand to two thousand to three thousand to four thousand people they moved in created other another larger camp and that's what we're and that's that's it since it's the native people are basically bringing attention to the fact that some things are sacred and that we can't live without the sacred right well this is true this is like so it's kind of like the world of the sacred versus the world of of disrespect the corporation and the colonization the colonization and destruction and it's like they see my understanding they see that if we don't do or say anything we're just going to fade away and we owe a responsibility to future generations and to this generation for that matter maybe even our past can't be there physically to join in a spiritual effort to pray and i think that the element of prayer that comes from this camp these encampments these people these ceremonies that are there is tremendously important and  through praying from your heart from praying from what you really feel with your heart mind is really the key to manifesting change in the colonizers were able to use the fear of the the the devil they brought with them in a book that they brought with them to convince a lot of people of native people to be afraid of god to be afraid of consequences should they not follow the will of this great religion that they brought in this book  that preached fear and domination of course there's a lot of goodness in to be seen in that book but the colonization of the native people through the fear of god the fear of the devil i believe was a huge force  causing people to surrender their will their spiritual world or languages or their ceremonial practices to surrender your soul to them so this i mean yeah i feel like the christian religion i mean not to knock it i grew up with it but there are you know the pair was are good but it teaches you to to submit to this this power that supposedly the creator of the universe i don't believe that he created the universe wants you to submit  your your your your your soul to anything he made us free for a reason why would we have been created and if we were created in the image of god then we're meant to remain that way we're not we weren't born imperfect and then the other thing is you know they tell you you're born perfect that's not true and then the other thing is it's this domination floss a fee of dominating each other you know there's this hierarchy even within the church within our politics we're some people are greater and some people are lower in within the races obviously there's a you know that's been taught i feel like through the christian church not everyone is equal and in domination probably worst of all even as domination of man over nature we are here to there we are and that's the worst thing ever like why should we dominate nature why are we better than anything and with that mindset i feel like we've trampled on this beautiful garden of eden and people that have a philosophy we're always equal and everyone is equal don't go there they really respect everything they don't feel like they're above the law there's a law in nature in all people abide to it and  whereas with the christian church the teach us that we are above nature so we don't have to follow the laws of nature and now we see that we're kind of getting to the end of that that road and it's not looking good  o and quite fortunately although some peoples were subjugated to the church of this year there were many who also maintained and practiced languages and ceremonies regardless obviously and could put run to that ok as you know yet another church were doing it but at the same time you know we still have our songs and i ceremonies and i've had to be underground for quite a while and i'm and i'm eternally grateful because even though i'm white obviously you know i feel like i've been helped by the native people of this continent because they they've they've shared some of their knowledge with the rest of us you know not not their you know there's their sacred ceremonies necessarily but just by example and just by you know reaching out through through talks and through you know different books i've read from them and whatnot and they've really given a different standard that i don't think i would've learned anywhere else and it's like yeah it's in the western world from my perspective very lacking in some of the most basic  when without without that employer you know well i believe there's also a natural yearning as generations are born here whether you are of european ancestry or ancestry from another country when generations are born here on this turtle island on this continent and your parents and maybe your grandparents and now you are born here as well that we are breathing this air we are eating food from this earth we are we are here with the spirits that are of this earth it's rubbing off on and so it is rubbing off on our natural yearning for guidance from the native people that i believe that's why so many people here turn to the native american ceremonies and people for advice because it is the mother earth that there's nothing that can stop us from feeling her vibration if we allow it if we get out if we feel the wind if we don't see all of our interactions with nature on reality t v show you know ages and what not to feel like well i feel like we used to have that but it just it was so violent the they just ripped it out of us right just like right now yeah that's the violence yeah they're doing it again and not i'm afraid you know we really have to bite the hands of the police not the people yeah clarify that well i can't yeah and i feel like we need to stand strong right now because i feel like they're getting ready to really you know obviously would doing it standing right just a few years ago they want to have been doing i don't feel like i feel like they're really getting ready to do worse things than before the political climate right knowledge is quite frightening and i feel like we as a as a people need  collective need to really stand up like they're they're putting everything they have on what leo put forward they're just gloves off right now and they're all pretense of democracy and in good nature is obviously been thrown out the window so i feel like this is our opportunity also to stand up and give everything that we have of the good you know the people belong to the good you know we don't belong to this this machinery anyways i'd like to read this one poem called warrior so please yeah it's kind of deals with that issue so i goes like this i stare ahead the future behold we are the future ancestors we must be brave looking beyond this grave we are the warriors we are the future ancestors piso mother earth  we are the warriors and right now at the front lines of standing rock there are thousands of warriors there and when people show up at camp they decide if they want to be part of direct actions or want to be part of the medic tent or want to be one of the cooks or want to be helping the school and those they ask for people who are willing to be on the front lines and people go there with the the intention as warriors to put their bodies on the front lines and if there is someone to be arrested they are volunteering to be arrested and the count makes a circle around them and plays upon around those who may be taken away to jail to help them to be strong of course nobody wants to get arrested and people are completely peaceful and they are not provoking arrest in any way shape or form ironically the definition of riot in north dakota that has been used as a gathering of five or more so immediately if you have more than four people in one place with an intention to protest which they call disrupt they use the lingo and then an old anti indian law well it's on the books in north  dakota and so people are being charged with rioting when they're standing peacefully pretty fortunately well unfortunately on october twenty seventh one hundred forty two or forty eight people were arrested at a protest at what they called the sacred ground camp which was a camp that was set up in the path of the pipeline on the highway eighteen zero six to stop the the  s equipment from crossing and entering towards the river so they set up d p s they set up the camp similar to what this looks like in the path of pipeline construction and hundreds of people east came militarized tanks  read m raps which are no i can't remember what they're called but they're armored anti grenade anti landmine vehicles were there and saw no radar to disrupt people's hearing and vibrate their internal organs and make them sick so in the process people were harmed or under noisy people rubber bullets and fortunately just three days ago the federal judge or the judge in court dropped all of the felony charges against the people that they were not there they could not prove that they warranted felony arrest charges which is a wonderful thing people have to go back to court for lesser charge but they're not being charged with the felonies the take away your right to vote make it so you can't get a job sometimes you can't rent a house anymore getting charged with a felony doesn't just charge you with a felony it can disrupt your entire life you know and so people who are preying on the frontlines preying you know as i have missed i value her prain their greatest weapon is a feather in their voice they're being charged with rioting felony you know felony charges and so fortunately that group of people had their felony charges dropped which i believe is a result of a heck of a lot of prayer our prayers are meeting and also getting to the people in power now one thing we've you said the in your book you have there moto did i say his daughter chris his daughter crystal's so here we are and we have learned that there is a lot of power if we talk to our water and if we pray with our water and what's happening at standing rock is about protecting the water so each of us in our lives can pray with water and affect not only the water in our cup but we can affect the water of the planet we can affect the water that is in the bodies of the decision makers we can affect the water and pray to it that it has a better vibration for the police that are harming others we can keep praying and we can use this water of life the earth is three fourths water our bodies are three fourths water if everyone takes water and prays with it and then we drink it that prayer becomes part of our lives to manifest it becomes part of the greater good as we respirator as we breathe our bodies put out moisture and even in that the water we take in with the prayer full intention comes through our breasts and becomes part of the heavenly energies that move forward the power of prayer cannot be underestimated in this situation one hundred forty seven felony trial you know charges are dropped so and more than that and better things are happening although we're not out of danger it's incredibly scary situation right now dapple has floodlights lit all night long they're working all through the night at three o'clock in the morning two days ago a group called drone to the dakota access partners to build a twelve foot high cement barricade wall that has razor wire on top of it all the way around you can't penetrate it it's lit up by floodlights all night aerial surveillance police surveillance helicopters surveillance night vision surveillance and in that twelve foot high wall bunker gigantic bigger than football fields they now have the drilling rig they have the drilling pipes they're a quarter mile from the missouri river and they are proceeding twenty four hours a day to work and explain danger i know you're ready did this on the last show explain the danger of that pipeline going under that water would it what it's going to do eventually to to the water they can't monitor when that will start leaking in all these these pipes the always leak at some point well the highest hope is that the pipeline will last fifty years before breaks that's under or it starts leaking and if they're burying it ninety feet below lake a lot he which is the lake that feeds the missouri river and if it leaks the leak will be basically undetectable until so much harm is done it's a crude oil though if it leaks it's not going to it's in the earth it's not going to float up and become visible you know it's a crude oil it will start to sink and it will dissipate and perhaps hit fracking channels that have been put through the earth everywhere and it could affect the old the lala hocker for in the long run if the missouri river becomes polluted the missouri river runs into the mississippi river and we have conservative estimates that eighteen million people's water would be harmed but if you include the mississippi it goes way over twenty thirty million people and that is the water that's used for agriculture it's water that is used for our bread basket of the united states and should the water get down the river and lake into the ogallala aquifer which is the main water source for the midwest for all of our crops so basically there's no way to clean it off with so basically native people for hundred people of different religious organizations went to pray on the front line they prayed at the barricade in the face of the police with their crosses with a barricade is where the m raps are the sound cannons they went in prayed and one thing that was very fulfilling for me was that ministers of many different faiths lutheran protestant you know it to skip alien that were at the main camp right here in a large circle they all agreed to burn the doctrine of discovery the doctrine of discovery is a document of the christian church that said if colonizers went to an area where there was not an existing priest or somebody of religious hierarchy in that area that they had eminent domain to subjugate all the people there is no their religion if no other christians were there yes if no other and so they could steal the land they could steal the land so a number of ministers burned the doctrine of discovery at the sacred vow that was a pretty thrilling moment to witness and again you know i believe that although that's wonderful it represents the established religions of the coloniser that brought us very close to this point that we're at that subjugated people and now that they have recognized those mistakes and those horrors it's time to step back and be allies and be support and and you know it's right very wonderful that they went to the front line but i believe i hope the bigger message is that it is no longer up to religions to force native people to comply regardless of whether they comply with the religious dogma all of the people who believe in those religions should be willing to help anyway and to be supportive of the sweat lodges in the sun dances in the native american to get beyond my religion is the only basic respect and to start to uplift the native ways is being i mean equally as important and valid yeah because without respect i feel like when you don't respect others you're not respecting yourself and you can see were were  were my cultures or my you know it's like you can see the disrespect i mean look at these politicians they come right out and says say the grossest thing in the world to everyone concerning everyone and then they still get elected or they're put in office it's like they're just i mean they don't even pretend like we're at the point work you don't even have to pretend to respect anything or anyone and it's it's accepted you know and it's like oh because somehow they're going to make us money somehow by  something we don't even know how that's going to happen but it's even if it were to happen it's still this respectful disgusting you know and right and it's like we need to like you know really confront that in a holistic i'd like to speak for a couple of minutes also about the pipeline battles and the what battles over water we have here with standing rock you know we had the l n g pipeline that wanted to cross so many creeks and rivers that was temporarily delayed but i believe it is not fully delayed and the jordan cove pipeline as well that threatens water and wildlife and facing native tribes in our region and just a little bit south of our oregon dam the army corps does and by increasing the height of the dam to provide more water for irrigation downstream for california they would be flooding sacred historic sites of the winter tried right here in our backyard and there is a huge struggle going on there now to stop the expansion of the shasta dam and the ceremonies that the winter tribe is doing so we have our own little standing rock right in our backyard  they haven't called for a huge public encampment yet but when they do i think many of us would be ready to come and help them instead of addressing the issue of why we have these droughts they just want to create fix a problem with an even bigger problem well and and it's like yes that's very true but of looking at ourselves and saying well this is where we went wrong let's stop doing it they just create an even bigger problem well wh wrong is being shown quite well up in north dakota the bach in oil fields have a limited supply of oil to provide as well known as showed us the other night when a new box and drill is put in it has about a five year it peters out there's not a dependable supply of oil and there already have been a number of companies that have pulled out of their contracts with energy transfer partnerships for a few reasons first of all the oil output is going down and they're already finding that the amount of oil they thought would be at the back in oil fields is not there this is oil being extracted in north dakota in the united states for a canadian company to shove through a pipeline through all of our stream the knock refers to sell it to china in the gulf when it gets to the gulf of mexico so at this time because of the delays because of the direct action and standing rock the delays to the dakota access pipeline stand to really tumble their ability to economically complete the project because they negotiated their contracts for a price of oil that they could sell oil at a higher price and as the oil market there contracts with the companies that they guaranteed to have oil too on january first of two thousand and seventeen if they can't get that oil to them they invalidate the contracts and when the contracts that that means that the agreed price of let's say two dollars a barrel which is not correct that was a high price for oil is now seventy five cents a barrel so the contractors that were going to buy high priced oil  finding other sources for their infill oil right now at the cheaper price and if the dakota access pipeline isn't completed they lose all that high price oil contract money and would have to renegotiate at lower prices which could financially cripple the project but regardless they are drilling ahead and kelsie warren said we will build this pipeline no matter what by december first now many of us have heard in september on september ninth if you do social media lots of means obama has stopped the dakota access pipeline no obama didn't stop the pipeline the army corps of engineers the department of interior and the department of justice issued a letter requesting an energy transfer partners and bridge to voluntarily stop work on the disco to access pipeline it was a request to voluntarily stop well they didn't volunteer and they didn't stop in early october they tried had filed an appeal against to stop work and an early october the d c district court threw out the appeal so the tribe did not get an immediate stop work on that day in early october but the obama administration again d o a the d o j in the army corps of engineers reissued their request to stop work and again  second request was ignored when the tribal chairman went to the army corps with what donna spoke to the army corps in kansas the main guy there he said he would ask energy transfer partners he would ask dakota access to stop work until the permits were secured and they haven't stopped work so they are acting above the law above the government they are breaking the law and i think the bottom line is that they will continue as much as they can fearlessly because they feel it would be cheaper to pay the fines then to lose their access to this pipeline so they still must be stopped and the key is still a tremendous amount of pressure from us and fortunately we have dozens of people from this area going there it really makes my heart i feel i feel like this whole standing rock thing is bringing a lot of us together and it's like the whole white buffalo prophecy exactly and it's like it's almost like at the last minute something good is happening like that you know like the way before prophecy said all people would come together and we would heal the planet you know well i'm going to keep that in mind yeah i like you know i like that that you said that's something good would happen because when we fulfill the prophecy it is good it is for the healing you can and we're working on it yeah people are always talking about all the bad prophecies about the end of the world and all that but there's actually did that's a really good prophecy but yeah and you know we we all come together and and that's a look oh prophecy  and they're the ones who initiated this whole thing so i really feel like you know and then the fact that a lot of white people did show up a lot of europeans and a lot of priests a lot of christians not showed up but shows that you know a lot of us are tired of this being divided and you know we were starting to see that no we're all in this together and nobody's gaining from this whole you know empire you know it's this this whole like this empire isn't for anybody it doesn't represent anybody you know united states is not united states government is not democratic and doesn't look out for anybody you know when they're just going to pollute our water and pollute all of our air cross the whole you know they're  uting everything and they don't care you know in any way so i feel like feel like yeah we're i mean i feel like a lot of us are coming together like last night i was a downtown and i normally don't go to bars where there's and it was like everybody was singin beautiful songs of coming together and and it was just like spirit of love in the air you know and i feel like a lot of us are really we're tired of this you know this centuries  of racism of war sexism all of it you know you know environmental genocide which is like we're really at the end of it and we can't take it anymore but it was going to read this one poem oh good desolate the mystic keeps calling the mystic keeps calling to me a memory calling to us one family won't let it die the mystic what holds us when we cry will never let us die the mystic peace o damaged they got all their tanks they got all their machine guns they had all their poison gas and you know and they control the you know the global economy and all that but i feel like the heart controls the universe you know and if we tap into our heart then we have the power of the universe on our side and on we we can't lose you know here you know i believe that and not you know in any ways i feel like you know i'm a native people of help reinforce that in me you know they've really generously reached out to me you know  d certain ways when i should have been their natural born and i mean they've taught me you know they clicked in the bible of the say love your enemies well that was shown to me by native americans more than by people of the christian faith even though some people the christian faith are that way also but that's maybe a little more rare but always remember that the way they reach out to me you know yes and to it standing rock there are tribes that were traditional enemies in the past yeah that are now camping together getting together every single tribe is represented there are great and the enemy ships are gone you know they have to be set aside as does the racism yes because we need all races to fulfill the prophecy and the colors of the medicine wheel and so those who get to go to standing rock will find that you know that the enemy tribes if they it they're no longer working as enemies they're working together and the races are coming together and working together and we cannot on learn instant instantly or prejudgments from the past but this is a huge acceleration in our l a our evolution as individuals in a spiritual means to go beyond the past and move forward into the future where we understand we are one and we all depend on the water the land  and what's happening in standing rock with the open minds and hearts to accept all nations from the world i truly believe is the healing we need the the native people are the people of a stolen land we stole their land you know and for them to be kind and to be generous and to open yeah and to open their hearts to all the races and people from all over the world and say come and be come and pray come and join us we can work together let's forgive let's not pray to the water send your prayers yeah bring on that way because you know everything we see around us this table oh my necklace it was the thought it was an intention it was somebody as intention to make something and with our thoughts we make the future and our prayers put into the universe and making the future that's how we can work together prayer and thought thought and intention makes the chair makes the television allows us to be together it was i thought it was our good intention to share something beautiful for people to understand about standing rock and we thought about it and when you have good sought in a sense that's  it means benefit so here we all are because of our thoughts and prayers and our good intentions and i really hope that we can move forward in that way and come together for the healing of the earth in the water and that there will be no dakota access way too and hear your poems i thank you and i'm going to finish it free i have time with one more poem goods called dream and beauty i'll bet is and all that was is held together by all the dreams the breath the beauty the breath of truth all that is and all that was is held