tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18419279025636216682024-03-02T09:29:17.122-08:00Alaska's Big Village NetworkAlaska's Big Village Network’s (ABVN) mission is to create communities of inclusion of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples for the health of all peoples’ mental, social, physical, environmental and spiritual well-being applying ancestral wisdom of indigenous peoples’ honor, respect and dignity of the whole living and non-living universe.Alaska's Big Village Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831587117092532898noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-74636713727103295362022-11-14T13:53:00.002-08:002022-11-14T13:53:46.770-08:00Food sovereignty in Western Alaska: A Sacred Relationship with Animals, Water, and the Land Food sovereignty in Western Alaska: A Sacred Relationship with Animals, Water, and the Landhttp://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/food-sovereignty-in-western-alaska-a-sacred-relationship-with-animals-water-and-the-land/ For Carl Wassilie, from the Yup’ik Nation in Western Alaska and part of Alaska’s Big Village Network,
the arctic ecosystem and traditional seasonal food sources ofAK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-62734068610502299082019-09-27T17:27:00.000-07:002019-09-27T17:46:02.750-07:00Stop Donlin Gold Mine Autumn 2019
9/27/19
While the major Canadian mining investors Barrick Gold Corporation and NOVAGOLD RESOURCES, INC. tout Donlin Gold mine as one of the worlds largest undeveloped open gold resources; the local jurisdiction of dozens of Tribal Governments downstream from the proposed perpetual (forever) toxic waste sites are telling the World- No Donlin Gold Mine.
Its not AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-28825081477604493802016-10-28T20:43:00.003-07:002016-10-28T20:43:25.034-07:00Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. statement
Media Contacts: Don Terry
dterry@rainbowpush.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 26, 2016
Water is Life, Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
A statement by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
CANNONBALL, N.D. – Everywhere I went today, I was greeted with a simple but profound
statement, “Water is life.”
It was shouted by young children and ancient grandmothers, by a white AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-43441541971810420122016-10-26T11:15:00.000-07:002016-10-26T13:22:06.594-07:00Dakota Access Pipeline continues to commit crimes against Humanity
Welcome to today's post from Alaska's Big Village Network providing real information AND a bit of satire addressing the ongoing Human Rights violations by a U.S. Corporation in the State of North Dakota. Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access oil pipeline activities continue to break International Covenants and U.S. Laws using the State of North Dakota's political system to AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-19760361440665545082016-10-24T15:01:00.005-07:002016-10-24T15:07:32.526-07:001851 Treaty Honoring: Police beat Water Protectors with batons, pepper spray them during prayer: update from the field10/24/16
ABVN traveled long and far this last week to witness the front line Prayers for Peace and Non-violence at the Camp of Sacred Stones and overflow camp Oceti Sakowin (seven council fires).
https://vimeo.com/groups/82929/videos/188723484
The journey of awareness building and prayers for peace is necessary to address the profound Human Rights implications of the State of North Dakota AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-49123678192391905662016-10-24T15:01:00.003-07:002016-10-24T15:04:16.276-07:001851 Treaty Honoring: Police beat Water Protectors with batons, pepper spray them during prayer: update from the field10/24/16
ABVN traveled long and far this last week to witness the front line Prayers for Peace and Non-violence at the Camp of Sacred Stones and overflow camp Oceti Sakowin (seven council fires).
The journey of awareness building and prayers for peace is necessary to address the profound Human Rights implications of the State of North Dakota militarized violent tactics to protect corporate AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-457854979019449172016-10-17T22:51:00.003-07:002016-10-17T23:17:03.709-07:00Call out for Support!!!!! Standing Rock and Sacred Stones Camp
September 16, 2016
Alaska's Big Village Network-
Request for support the Peace Pony to Standing Rock and Sacred Stones Camp
WATER IS LIFE!
Unguvauguq meq!
(Yupik language)
Mni Wiconi!
(Lakota Language)
WATER IS LIFE!
Sacred Stones Camp- Supply and Support Mission to Standing Rock Reservation of the Hunkpapa Lakota and Yaktonai Dakota Territory
CONTACT: Carl Wassilie AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-9913074780643944932016-10-14T10:20:00.000-07:002016-10-16T20:22:51.036-07:00Sacred Stones Camp- September 2016
Tribal Historical Overview - Lakota Migration - The 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty
The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is situated in North Dakota and South Dakota. The people of Standing Rock, often called Sioux, are members of the Dakota and Lakota nations. “Dakota” and “Lakota” mean “friends” or “allies.” The people of these nations are often called “Sioux,” a term that dates back to the 17th AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-90112555526651685122015-07-16T13:46:00.002-07:002015-07-16T13:46:37.565-07:00Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Recovery Plan? indigenous input?
The Orca and Beluga represent "communities sharing together" logo by Ole Lake, ABVN adviser
Despite only having a few hours to put together comments on the on-going extreme environmental racism saga of the Cook Inlet Beluga Whale and Alaska Native hunters, I was able to scramble up what I saw missing in the 289-page plan. Despite the government taking over 10 years to finally comeAK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-63775283163343420282015-07-05T17:06:00.000-07:002015-07-06T00:35:41.365-07:00Today's "Savage" Blog from Nayiq:
Today's "Savage" Blog from Nayiq:
Celebrating a colonial holiday? The hypocrisy of the Declaration of Independence?
July 5, 2015
--Nayiq
In today's post, we will highlight Frederick Douglass, [c. 1818-1895] a former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement. Douglass was the publisher of the "North Star," after he became a "freed" slave in the North.&AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-49922376112651927602015-05-21T13:48:00.004-07:002015-05-21T13:52:35.724-07:00sHell No! Save our Arctic Ocean: Paddle in Seattle Flotilla: Salish Sea to Arctic Ocean
Salish Sea
Seattle
May 14-18, 2015
Alaska's Big Village Network
Defend our Wild Salmon: sHell No! Save our Arctic Ocean: sHell No! Campaign
Flotilla Action
For nearly a decade, Alaska's Big Village Network has been defending Alaska's Oceans from industrial expansion into the world's last wild fishery nurseries. In the 1970's, Alaskans defendedAK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-65245319136057651642015-04-19T16:40:00.000-07:002015-04-19T16:40:07.967-07:00Honoring Perry Ave. Community Farm and Sweet Water Foundation in South Chicago
James St. Goddard, spiritual leader of the Blackfeet Confederacy (Montana), travels to Chicago, Illinois on a mission to "wake up" America to stop the destruction and devastation of Mother Earth. An inter-tribal delegation of Indigenous Peoples and People of Color met with some South Chicago community leaders, scholars, chefs and urban farmers in South Chicago's poorest neighborhood. &AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-73097552669726670782015-04-16T10:43:00.001-07:002015-04-16T10:51:09.067-07:00Spring '15 Food Sovereignty Tour: Great Lakes Region
Alaska's Big Village Network Spring '15 Food Sovereignty Tour:
CHICAGO: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum:
University of Illinois, Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/_programsevents/_upcomingevents/_2015/04_apr/sov/sov.html#
Spring 2015 Food Sovereignty Series:
International Peasants Day: ForumAK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-60880181069669201642015-01-05T11:32:00.004-08:002015-01-05T12:03:17.862-08:00NMFS to address massive takes of marine mammals in lawless Cook Inlet watersNMFS to address massive harassment of marine mammals in lawless Cook Inlet waters by industrial activities
Plight of the critically endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales needs a Recovery Plan to end racist and discriminatory policy and regulation blaming Alaska Native Hunters as scientist continue to call for more information before issuance of harassment authorizations from federal AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-72716497048235294982014-05-04T20:54:00.000-07:002014-05-04T21:18:48.975-07:00Two AK Troopers killed in Tanana shooting: Preventable? VIOLENCE THAT IS PREVENTABLE Some questions about the Tanana Village incident on May Day 2014.
https://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140501/two-alaska-state-troopers-killed-tanana-shooting
Two Alaska State Troopers killed in Tanana shooting
Alaska Dispatch,Anchorage Daily News
May 1, 2014
While I do not condone the violence that ensued here and my heart goes out AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-64115213219125357172013-11-12T15:24:00.000-08:002013-11-12T15:24:16.665-08:00Ban Toxic Chemical Dispersants: Flawed process to pre-authorize dispersants threatening ALASKA WATERS and Communities
Media Advisory-For Release 13 November-Nov 17th 2013
Alaska Environmental Alliance Condemns Federal Agency Conduct re Chemical Dispersant Pre-Authorization Plans as a Move to Erode the Power of Clean Water Act
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nikos Pastos-Center for Water Advocacy,
AI-TC and Alaska Delegation Spokesperson
406-459-1829
nikospastos@hotmail.com
Carl AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-26638862781612321782013-07-05T22:30:00.000-07:002013-07-05T22:31:01.477-07:00Outdated science and bureaucracy is standing in the way of a clean Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and thousands of other toxic spill sites throughout Earth’s lands and waters. ALASKA'S BIG VILLAGE NETWORK is a proud member of
Change Oil Spill Response Global Alliance
http://protectmarinelifenow.org/alaska-alliance
Change Oil Spill Response Now!
The Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization Science & Technology Advisory Board
You are here: Home > Alaska Alliance
http://protectmarinelifenow.org/alaska-alliance
The Alaska Regional AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-44468529765867800152013-04-15T21:44:00.002-07:002013-04-15T22:24:54.043-07:00Alaska's secret agenda to access the riches of Alaska: JAIL ALASKA NATIVE MALES!
"Among Alaska Natives, incarceration patterns are as disturbing as they are intransigent: even though Alaska Natives comprise only about 18% of the state's general population, they make up 36% of Alaska's prison population."
State of the Judiciary: 2012
February 29, 2012
Chief Justice Walter L. Carpeneti
"Too many of Alaska's young men - particularly our young men of color - are AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-17200014743660680562013-03-28T08:48:00.002-07:002013-03-28T11:25:35.505-07:00SAVE OUR SCHOOLS: oil-slicked Juneau and racist Chicago?
SAVE OUR SCHOOLS
Alaska:
School rally:
no to vouchers, yes to BSA
Teachers, legislators, supporters rally for school funding increase
Posted: March 27, 2013 - 12:05am
By RUSSELL STIGALL
JUNEAU EMPIRE
More than 150 teachers, legislators and education supporters rallied behind calls to increase funds allocated to each Alaskan student outside AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-55770326940858955912013-03-24T21:12:00.000-07:002013-03-24T21:37:46.514-07:00a Glimpse of Health Disparities in Yup'ik Villages
Enormous Disparities in Health are just the tip of the iceberg of colonization and assimilation in Alaska's indigenous communities.
Billions of dollars in tax breaks for multinational oil companies are gifted by the Alaska politicians, but basic human rights of indigenous peoples in Alaska are ignored.
Not only is the Governor and his little "Eichmann's" in the AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-28180696497835936232013-03-13T01:41:00.001-07:002013-03-13T01:41:36.065-07:00 MEDIA ADVISORY: Alaska groups and Tribes oppose Alaska Senate Bill SB 26. Legislature moves to privatize Alaska’s waters
MEDIA ADVISORY:
Alaska groups and Tribes oppose Alaska Senate Bill SB 26
Anchorage, Alaska Tuesday March 12, 2013 for immediate release, addendum will follow.
Contact:
Delice Calcote: 907-563-9334 AlaskaInter-Tribal Council
Carl Wassilie: 907- 382-3403 Alaska’s Big Village Network
Nikos Pastos: 907-764-2561 Center AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-77708974714489811462013-02-27T08:59:00.000-08:002013-02-27T09:13:56.540-08:00Yup'ik Human Rights Violated: Subsistence Fishing in Alaska
Posted by Gary Patton
February 2013
I am going to begin this
with the comment that Floyd Davidson posted on ALASKA DISPATCH in
reference to the Yup’ik fisherman that were arrested for fishing
king salmon during a closure on the Kuskokwim River in 2012:
“So far the only
tradition the laws have been designed to maintain is that of money
for commercial fishing. It’s nice to see an AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-84084485251873895012013-02-23T08:22:00.000-08:002013-02-23T08:25:21.332-08:00No Shell in Arctic: Coast Guard finds big problems
Coast Guard: Shell Arctic drilling rig findings turned over to Justice Dept.
By Sean Cockerham — Anchorage Daily News
WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard has found serious safety and environmental violations on a Shell drilling rig used in the Arctic waters off Alaska, another blow to the company’s controversial bid to harvest oil in the petroleum-rich but sensitive region.
The Coast AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-50142926258311528992013-02-22T20:27:00.001-08:002013-02-22T20:27:23.482-08:00TransCanada buying Culture
TransCanada Platinum Sponsor: Indspire Awards & Thundering Hills Powwow Immediate Release
TransCanada appears to be selectively distributing its funds into First Nations communities with its recent “partnership” in the Indspire Awards (formerly the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards) and its Platinum “sponsorship” of the upcoming Thundering Hills Powwow on July 5, 6, & 7thAK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841927902563621668.post-67668714710073403872013-02-19T19:06:00.000-08:002013-02-19T19:06:16.739-08:00
4 Reasons Why a Settlement with BP is a Bad Idea
Thu, 2013-02-14 13:23
Sort of like OJ Simpson (Yes. I figure he did it), BP "got over" in the US Justice Department's criminal case against them. They didn't win, but they gladly settled for $4 Billion rather than face a full trial with full public disclosure of exactly what happened before, during and after the Deepwater AK Big Villagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942820292243457658noreply@blogger.com0