The great great grandson of Chief Red Cloud on Amy's show today.

[EFerrari]

:wow:

Henry Red Cloud of Oglala Lakota Tribe on Native American Anti-Nuclear Activism, Uranium Mining, and the Recession’s Toll on Reservations



The Nuclear-Free Future Awards are being awarded tonight at New York’s historic Cooper Union. The prize has been described as the most important anti-nuclear award in the world. We speak to one of this year’s winners, Henry Red Cloud, the great-great grandson of Chief Red Cloud. Henry Red Cloud is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and founder of Lakota Solar Enterprises, one of the nation’s first Native American-owned and–operated renewable energy companies.

(No transcript yet but audio, video at link)

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/30/henry_red_cloud_of_oglala_lakota

[burnsei sensei]

1. Too often, Native American speeches

are not part of national discourse.
They should be.
Native Americans have a right to contribute directly to our culture in respectable mediums.
I just wonder, in five years, will there be any respectable cultural mediums left?