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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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The Red Nation is proud to stand with the Warriors of the Sunrise in occupying their aboriginal territory Canoe Place, desecrated by the construction of Sunrise Highway.
The central demand is that New York state drop it's frivolous and racist lawsuit that a judge already dismissed.
This episode features songs and stories live from the camp (please excuse audio quality)
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0:00.0 | The Well this song was written back in 1976 when there was a whole lot of activity going on across Indian country. After Wounded Knee happened after the |
0:35.9 | takeover of the BIA, the Menominee Warrior Society and when AIM took over the Temple University in Philadelphia in 1976 for the 200th birthday of America. |
0:52.0 | And in response to that, we here on Shinnikok, a few of us warriors who would become the warriors of the sunrise, |
1:00.0 | said, well, we should take over our own land we should take back west woods well how do you think the |
1:06.0 | neighbors would feel about that and I this is what I thought they would say |
1:11.8 | ready spread the they would say. Ready? |
1:13.0 | They're going to. |
1:14.0 | Spread the news across the nation. |
1:18.0 | Another Indian occupation |
1:22.0 | and it's going on in Westwoods Hampton Bay. |
1:27.0 | They're trying to get their land back after all these years |
1:38.0 | what's getting into Redskins these days. Well their bones are in museums, where people pays to see them. |
1:54.0 | Now they want them back to put them in the ground. |
2:00.0 | Why should we do it? There's really no point to it. |
2:09.5 | Since we pretend that Indians aren't around |
2:18.0 | But they're starting to fight back now |
2:22.0 | We didn't think they knew how. All they knew about was getting |
2:30.7 | drunk. Now they're talking casinos, gas stations and big bing bing goes who ever thought that Indians ever thung. |
2:48.0 | Better call the BIA to cart the savages away. |
2:59.0 | They're starting to ruin the neighborhood. |
3:07.8 | And everybody knows just how that story goes. |
3:11.9 | Just how that story goes that only dead Indians are good to spread the news across the nation another Indian occupation and it's going on in Westwood's Hampton Bay. |
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