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RedRightHand:
For quite a while now we've had a thread on Starhawk / Miriam Simos in "Research Needed". http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3740.msg31319#msg31319

Simos is not a pretendian, in that she doesn't claim to be Native, rather she's a Neo-Wiccan Witch who has many times now decided her made-up ceremonies are better than Indigenous ones, and she has used her large following of non-Natives to commit offenses on Indigenous lands, and she has shown up to colonize and disrupt Native events. To the best of my knowledge, she has never attempted to apologize, made amends, or even acknowledge her many offenses against Natives.

And now she's doing it again. But this time it's even more high-profile and awful. She did not ask any Indigenous people if it would be OK to go to Standing Rock. Like all the other exploiters, she just went for the photo op, the data-mining, and now the offensive name-dropping of people who don't know her. If you search on "Starhawk" on Facebook, some things come up about an action where she and other non-Natives violated the orders of Elders and disrupted an event. I'm still checking into what happened, but it sounds like the typical colonial exploitation that seems to happen whenever she and her massive ego show up.

Here's her blog about it: http://starhawk.org/thanksgiving-at-standing-rock/

And here's one of the Facebook posts. It looks to have been written by a white nuager who's given herself a fake South Asian name, and who does pay to pray with some of the 13 Pay to Pray Old Ladies. It's the usual colonialism, and the white people LOVE it: https://www.facebook.com/victory.lonnquist/posts/10153935062496254

WINative:
I have seen these posts being circulated but not publicly I wonder if it's to give the impression of unity at the camps.

http://www.honorearth.org/teamexpansion

A tribal council meeting was held on November 1, 2016 with a motion to ask the Red Warrior Camp to leave Standing Rock, which was approved.
Search the file for: #67. MOTION WAS MADE BY PAUL ARCHAMBAULT, SECONDED BY ROBERT TAKEN ALIVE, TO ASK RED WARRIOR CAMP TO LEAVE. Motion Carried
http://standingrock.org/minutes--resolutions/?type=Y&sort=2016


The only note of standoffishness I detected at Seven Councils was a settlement in a grove of cottonwoods called Red Warrior Camp that had erected a fence around itself and hung signs that read: NO MEDIA. NO TOURISTS. CHECK IN WITH SECURITY. An organizer told me the camp was trained in direct nonviolent action. “Whatever happens in Red Warrior Camp stays in Red Warrior Camp,” she said. When they held an open mic outside the gate, their rhetoric included the same message of togetherness and spirit but with a more militant tone. Its people were younger, quite a few of them white, some wearing camo fatigues and bandannas over their faces. I was told that many of the activists came from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 and uprising in 1973, still bearing a stamp of badassery from the days of the American Indian Movement. Unlike the Standing Rock Tribe, which courted mainstream reporters, Red Warrior pumped out its own message on Facebook. I didn’t attempt to penetrate the place but met some young native guys staying there. “For a place calling itself Red Warrior Camp,” one of them quipped, “there sure are a lot of white warriors.”

https://www.gofundme.com/redwarriorcamp


Lots of money being sent to Tara Houska and her camp directly.

Ardal:
So many tshirt sales being advertised on Facebook. I've challenged them on it, no replies, of course.

Cetan:
I hope Earth7 has time to see this and chime in. I know she said she has heard of a lot of money being raised but they are not seeing it at the Sacred Stone camp which was the first camp set up last April. I have also seen a lot of tee shirts, the only one I can vouch for because I personally know him is Red Paint Printing, a native owned printing company who also helped to start the native Skate jam. He has been sending supplies out to ND

WINative:
It looks like Red Warrior Camp is showing its true colors and will take the money and run. They also sound like they want to be a new AIM and go after fame and fortune, while ignoring established leaders and elders and communities.
Well we will see how long they last.


http://ancestralpride.org/december-2016-official-red-warrior-camp-communique/

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