Two wolf packs have new wolf pups on Shasta, Nisenan, Yana, Eastern Pomo, and Atsugewi and Hoopa territory in so called California. Each pack having six pups each. Illahee Spirit Runners claim victory!
For a decade since wolves were first released in the wild after their extinction in 1953 Illahee Spirit Runners have been staked to the ground like Cheyenne dog soldiers in their attempts to protect wolves in the wild. From when they were first reintroduced, to the first confirmed wolf packs on Nimiipuu, Paiute, Warm Springs, Wasco territories in so called “Oregon”. We were there. Feet on the ground. Many of us relocating our lives and dedicating ourselves to the confrontation of the illegitimate wildlife agencies that only serve the interest of colonization and exploitation. We did all of this making confrontation hundreds of times, raising awareness, applying political pressure, encouraging tribes to unite over the issue while astroturf organizations that did not even seek to confront colonialism mobilized to take all the resources away from the issue before anyone else could get any even though they were funded by the Koch brothers. We showed up again and again, made great sacrifice, experienced great loss and police terrorism. We dealt with the death threats because unlike white conservationists the right wing wolf killer groups fully understand the connection indigenous peoples have with wolves. We faced the army, state troopers from two different states, had run ins with homeland security, were threatened by armed rangers, we faced the horse cavalry and were tossed out of offices and had chemical weapons used on us. Not the white ngos. (Non governmental organization) They were in their offices. We don’t even have offices. many of us are homeless or struggling and we get more done on less. Our education is better and its free. These ngos. have nothing on us and they know it. I was running from black helicopters and drones while they were at brunch. The most active indigenous resistance group on the continent is run by a homeless indigenous man and new leaders hes training and building power with. Our suffering has made us strong and they should fear the day we get control over our own destinies including immigration and run them off OUR continent. Red Power!
Right now European ran “conservation” orgs. are claiming victory for the same wolf pups. We openly challenge that myth, the myth that perpetuates the invisibilization of the indigenous resistance and attempts to paint colonists as the saviors to colonialism. In fact all our water was drinkable prior to contact with Europeans as elder Floyd Redcrow Westerman taught us. And within 100 years all that water was contaminated. From my own experiences on the front lines of the wolf struggle i know that every lake river and stream in so called “Idaho” now tests positive for e. coli. This is caused by the colonial practice of raising invasive European bovine on indigenous Turtle Island. We find it absurd to think that colonists will save Turtle Island from colonialism. That concept is disgusting to me. These same colonists at European led non profits etc. are the same ones that throw a feast and celebrate the largest genocide on the planet to which they profit from daily as they masquerade as stewards of the land when #RightfulStewards are further disempowered by white supremacists acting under the guise of environmentalism. By now it is known about connections to white supremacist think tanks such as Yale university who used conservation to act out a eugenics program that conserves park lands for use by white Nordic peoples. We seen this continued under Jim Crow laws but also that our indigenous hunting grounds were made into parks such as Grand Teton national park which would directly cause starvation and forced removal. They feast to our death come thanksgiving. They seek to naturalize themselves to our continent replacing us as stewards making us unnecessary. Indigenous rule seeks to overturn this colonial violence. The indigenous resistance speaks the shocking truth. The European ran orgs. claiming victory won’t even talk to us in reality and have no relationship with us. We are not an org we are the indigenous resistance. You cannot be in solidarity with people you have no relationship with.
To the indigenous resistance and the indigenous resistance alone goes this victory in restoration. Revolution means physical and material change and revolution has manifested itself in the form of sacred baby wolf pups. Red Power! All credit is given to the Great Mystery.
Written By The Invisible Warrior August 10, 2011
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