Category Archive: 'Indigenous Values and Native American Sites'
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Diverse allies united through the San Gabriel Mountains Forever campaign hosted cabinet level federal officials at a Listening Session for America’s Great Outdoors at Whittier Narrows Regional Park on July 7, 2010. Speakers included the following community panelists.
Robert Bracamontes America’s Great Outdoors and Equal Justice: Save Our Land, Parks and Sacred Sites
Robert Bracamontes of the [...]
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
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Robert Bracamontes of the Acjachemen Nation, Juaneno Tribe, asks cabinet level federal officials: “The bankers and financial corporations have been saved. Now it is time to save the people and their land.” MIT Professor Noam Chomsky writes: ”Very eloquent piece. Packs a lot in to a few minutes. [...]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Saturday, in the park, I think it was the 3d of July.
Picnic, barbecue, soccer, volleyball, and just hanging in Whittier Narrows Regional Park.
Learn more about America’s Great Outdoors and Equal Justice in English and Spanish.
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
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Robert Bracamontes, Nación Acjachemen, Tribu Juaneño, será miembro del grupo dirigente el 7 de julio en la Sesión Para Compartir en Whittier Narrows
Haga click aquí para ver el informe de la política de diversos aliados titulatdo “America’s Great Outdoors”: La Gran Naturaleza y la Justicia Equitativa.
Haga click aquí [...]
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
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Robert Bracamontes, Acjachemen Nation, Juaneno Tribe, will be a panelist at the July 7 Whittier Narrows Listening Session.
Click here to see the Policy Brief of diverse allies on America’s Great Outdoors and Equal Justice.
In addition to the Whittier Narrows listening session, the following America’s Great Outdoor events will take [...]
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
[F]or sheer disruption to human lives, several [experts] could think of no environmental problem in American history quite equaling the calamity known as the Dust Bowl.
“The Dust Bowl is arguably one of the worst ecological blunders in world history,” said Ted Steinberg, a historian at Case Western Reserve University.
Across the High Plains, stretching from the [...]
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Chief Arvol Looking Horse offers a prayer for the sacred life of all things in the wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster below.
Rhonda Robles of the Acjachemen Nation invites family and friends to celebrate the National Day of Prayer for the Protection of Sacred Sites and the Summer Solstice at the Sacred Site [...]
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Visit the Sinkyone image set on The City Project’s flickr gallery by clicking on the image.
View the Administrative Complaint to Save State Parks Open for All! and Budget Shell Game
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Rhonda Robles of the Acjachemen Nation writes as follows:
Dear Friends and Family
Please join us for the Summer Solstice, Monday June 21st.
It is also the National Day of Prayer for Protection of Sacred Sites.
We will gather at Puvungna, on the campus of CSU Long Beach, from 4 pm until after sunset.
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower [...]
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
Healthy Recreation in San Gabriel Mountains
June 15, 7:00 pm
El Monte Community Center
The central San Gabriel Valley suffers from some of the highest childhood obesity and diabetes rates in California. The San Gabriel Valley also severely lacks parks and open space where families, young people and seniors can exercise and recreate. This [...]
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