#indigenous warrior

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High resolution 18” x 24” poster of Indigenous Santee Dakota warrior, activist, artist, poet, musician, poet, & role model, John Trudell. Trudell was a spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes during the revolutionary occupation and reclamation of Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay in 1969, where he set up a D.I.Y. radio broadcast called Radio Free Alcatraz. He went on to play a key role in the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.), and dedicated his life to Indigenous rights, sovereignty, decolonization, art, poetry, environmental justice, and dismantling capitalist patriarchal hierarchy. Rest In Power, brother. As with all our posters, feel liberated to print out & wheatpaste at will!

For more information on John Trudell: http://JohnTrudell.com/ Trudell Documentary (2005) John Trudell On Power, Authority and Tribal Genocide (1994) ICTNM: Remembering the Life and Legacy of John Trudell R.I.S.E. Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment Info: http://www.burymyart.tumblr.com https://www.facebook.com/RISEIndigenous contact: [email protected] ______________________________________________________.

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High resolution 18” x 24” poster of Indigenous Kawaik/Yoeme (Laguna/Yaqui) Indian Child Welfare Act advocate/warrior/feminist Evelyn Blanchard. As with all our posters, feel liberated to print out & wheatpaste at will!    About Evelyn Blanchard & Indigenous Child Removal Policies: “I was able to find all of these women in their own tribal communities who were working to create really innovative programs to promote child welfare within their communities. They were trying to find foster families within the community. They were creating these kinds of preventative programs for families to prevent children from being taken in the first place and to strengthen families or rehabilitate families. These women were quite incredible. Some were also getting involved in a national level to try to organize to stop this practice.

One of these women was Evelyn Blanchard, Laguna/Yaqui, who became an advocate for children and families after losing a court case in which Navajo grandparents were not allowed to take custody of their grandchild, who had been placed outside the community. She worked with the Association on American Indian Affairs to help get the Indian Child Welfare Act passed in 1978. “After the law was passed,” Blanchard told ICTMN, “I worked with many tribes to help them develop their own children’s codes regarding care of children in their communities and to help them figure out how they would respond to the law, which was written for state courts, not Indian tribes.”

Blanchard explains, “The ICWA regulates the acts of state courts or public and private agencies. That’s what it’s supposed to do and its intent is to prevent the breakup of the Indian families because records show that before the passage one out of every four children had been removed from his or her family and 85 percent of those kids were not in Indian homes. The tribes were tired of it. They wanted it stopped and the pattern reversed.”

Read more at: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/11/21/stealing-children-look-indigenous-child-removal-policies-157884

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Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment Info: https://www.facebook.com/RISEIndigenous contact: [email protected] ____________________________________.