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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
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Global atrocities against indiginous
women and girls
Al Jazeera
By Brandi Morin
24 Apr 2022
<<The woman setting the record straight on Native American history
Sarah Eagle Heart, storyteller and award-winning producer, wants to heal
her people through telling Indigenous stories.
Sarah Eagle Heart is a storyteller.
The Emmy Award-winning producer is also a mother, daughter, sister,
activist and CEO. But none of these accolades has come easily to Eagle
Heart who, like many Native Americans, is familiar with adversity. The
44-year-old Oglala Sioux woman from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South
Dakota is on a mission to revolutionise the way Indigenous narratives
are portrayed in the mainstream. She is determined to help set the
record straight on Native American history and, through story- telling,
bring healing to her people. <I think sometimes people look at the
history and maybe they’re afraid to face it or ashamed,> Eagle Heart
contemplates on a February morning via Zoom from her home in Los
Angeles. <And we can’t live in the shame of our history anymore. We have
to be able to address it and find a way forward because if we don’t,
we’re going to keep continuing these patterns that are killing us.> She
is referring to the brutality of colonisation that nearly wiped out the
Native American population over the last few centuries. Stolen lands,
the attempted genocide by the United States and the resolve of her
people to stay alive through ongoing oppression have been stifled by
mainstream history, and contribute to racism, poverty and adverse
statistics for Native Americans, she says. Today, American Indian and
Alaska Native households are more likely to face homelessness, while
Indigenous women are murdered at a rate that is 10 times higher than
other ethnicities. We’re having to recover from those harms, but not
only are we having to recover from those harms, the non-Native people
have been lied to too. So, I think it’s important to be able to just
acknowledge the truth and stand in the truth – confront it and also heal
from it, says Eagle Heart. <And the storytelling that I do today, there
is an actionable component to it,> she says, adding that a lot of times
people are expected to know what action to take. <But I don’t think they
know. And so, you have to spell it out.> Right now, she is working with
award-winning actor and environmental rights activist Mark Ruffalo to
bring the story of the fight to reclaim the Black Hills in South Dakota
to the big screen in a documentary titled Lakota Nation vs. the United
States. For the Lakota people, which includes the Oglala Sioux Tribe,
the Black Hills has long been considered sacred land. <It was never
ceded to the United States government. It [the documentary] is about the
[land’s meaning] and the fight for it and the fight to continue to have
a say over this land that our people have considered sacred since the
beginning of time. It’s where our creation stories are from,> Eagle
Heart explains. Her work is guided by prayer, an ancestral practice.
Every day she sets aside time to pray and meditate – it is an integral
part of her life and creative process. She takes long walks by the ocean
which for her provides a sense of comfort. And although she is hundreds
of miles away from her home in South Dakota, she feels she is exactly
where she needs to be right now, in Hollywood, an epicentre of
storytelling through cinema. <There are so many Native American stories
that need to be told and from an Indigenous woman’s perspective,> she
says. <And we need to be able to be free to tell that perspective and to
bring healing, not only to our people, but I feel like the Native
American story, our history, is not just our history [but everyone’s].>
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Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/4/24/the-woman-setting-the-record-straight-on-native-american-history
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