Russell Means: Prove Me Wrong
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2012
- On December 20, 2008, immediately following Barack Obama's election, Russell Means gave this interview in Rapid City, SD. In this film Russell is at his best - intelligent, aggressive, and unwilling to compromise principle. He summarizes the current struggle of the Lakota People, and he challenges Americans to "prove him wrong"--to exceed Russell's expectation that the United State won't put a stop to the injustices against his community.
Learn more and get involved at www.lakotalaw.org
A great man. Sadly missed. Badly needed today. Rest in Peace dear warrior.
I am a white woman, 70 yrs old from the South, and I have been taught many things by a Native healer after I moved to CA in 1987. I am a dreamer as well, and I had just last night a powerful dream about the situation here on this Beloved Mother Earth, with the native peoples who are struggling,. The dream captured my own grief, anger and disgust with my own race for being completely ignorant of history and the complete "brainwashing" of all of us about the true nature of compassion, honor, and trust in the power of love, kindness, and true gratitude for what we have on this beautiful planet. I won't belabor the point by writing out the whole dream but it has affected me so much today, that I had to write this to you. When my husband and I do our weekly ceremony to open the week with prayer and gratitude, we always include the First Nations People in this as you are the inspiration which guides us to be aware, awake, and ready to help when and if we are able to. I always wish we could do more financially, but a small monthly donation is all we can afford. But our spirits and our hearts are connected with you all and all I have to do to realize we are all in this together is to look outside, see the beautiful trees swaying in the wind, the funny chipmunks cavorting and my special friends the Ravens greeting me from the tall trees on our cliff outside the window. I pray every day that we all are waking up to see who we really are, and that we can change the direction we seem to be heading in. May the political "leaders" awaken as well! In peace and gratitude, Kathleen Lassiter & Russell Wells
I’m of Aboriginal descent here in Australia... and have much respect for the message, wisdom, and life stance of this Man ✊🏽
How you in present days???
OUR SO CALLED CIVILATION COULD LEARN A LOT FROM INDIAN PEOPLE. I LOVED RUSSELL!!!!!
I spent 3 years (and graduated high school) right outside the Pine Ridge Reservation. I'm a full white man, and yet my best friends and allies are Lakota. My family is not the people who look like me, but the people who accept and love me, therefore the Lakota are my people. Make no mistake, I am no Indian, but I am sick of seeing these people, human beings, being treated in such a way. And yet, the people who look like me don't care and the vast majority who do care, don't understand the problems at hand. Sad to say that Russell Means is dead, but death for him was peace at last for his soul. As a white person, I don't have the answers in my head nor do I have the trust of everyone on that reservation. I am just one man, but maybe, just maybe, a better way can be found if we all worked together and circumvented the United States Government's hold upon these good people.
+James Willmus I am the same way sir. I am a white man, but my my heart is Lakota. I will pick up what Russel left behind. My people, the Lakotas, although we share no blood, are united by our love and compassion for the world, the animals, and each other. I will fight for them until I die.
+James Willmus I worked as a Paramedic in a large city right near a large midwest lake. The same issues Mr Means is addressing is happening in the housing projects as well as the largely black & hispanic communities all over this country. I also have worked on an Indian Reservation. Some of the best Firefighters & Medics have been Native Americans. Some of the racist, rudest ones I have worked with have been white. Not all of them but a lot of them.
High sodium diets is a HUGE problem. A balance is needed for your heart to function. Too much sodium is extremely bad for your heart. Look at the sodium content on a fast food menu as well as frozen dinners. It is outrageous.
I believe if more media outlets address the poverty issue, with an unbiased opinion, more might get done. Or at least more people would be willing to donate time & money to making a somewhat peaceful life on the reservations. Most in this country would prefer to ignore problems if it doesn't bring in cash. Most choose to let a news station tell you false stories.
I had a media representative tell me to "Give a thumbs up if everything is alright!" If someone calls a Paramedic, things aren't "alright". I will not be giving those false hope when problems arise, just so the news channel can make a profit off misery. When I heard her say that, I stopped watching TV.
The US Constitution is written for US Citizens. The US did not consider the Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans & Hispanic Americans to be citizens when it was written. Therefor, in the US Govt mind, the constitution does not apply to the non whites. Many people have this attitude today.
I'm getting my RN. I plan to work on a reservation when i am done. I can't save the world but I can make sure I can give someone comfort when they need it the most.
Some white people don't care because they do not see any Native Americans on Reservations. I want to care but do not know how... I have a friend in a reservation in Montana. She teaches her language and is very active in her community. She never asked me for any help and i would gladly give it if I could. But help in what way? My bf is Native American in Venice CA. He is not on a reservation and there are few of his own people here that he is not related to. He was on a plane headed to New Mexico and saw another Indian ( he says Indian) and was like "oh wow... another one..." and the person on the plane was like ... "this is your first time in New Mexico, huh?"
My bf's mother and grand-mother are Native American and some of the racist people I have ever met... using the N word like it was normal. I have actually never known white people like them. I had to leave because I was so stunned and offended. She was "racist" towards me in that she was telling me I was too white, I looked sick maybe I am anemic... etc.. his mother is a real tool.
***** Her father was white and she had my bf with a white man.... so no, it was not about preserving the blood line. It is because I am really really white. I was thin and blonde... things she could never be and felt insecure about it. She talked about years of trying to control her weight so she could attract a man. Her mother was a petite little thing. Thin and dainty. But she, the bf's mother had more stereotypically "native American" features and a weight problem. She was actually very beautiful in her day and her daughter, my bf's sister is also very beautiful too. She just hated everyone... blacks, called them the N word, Mexicans... called them the W word etc... any body. She hated me because she saw me as competition for her since she relied very much on my bf as if he was her husband. I think it is called covert incest. His mother might have attended Catholic church but I don't think she was a specific victim of it. His grandmother perhaps. My bf went to a Catholic school here until he got kicked out. I don't think it was common in the 70;s to label children hyper active yet, but he was uncontrollable. Grandma had seven brothers and every one of them alcoholic. My bf said Friday nights there was a reunion at the local jail. My bf has been sober now for over six years. Me.. almost 20. Anyways... nice chatting with you and hope all is well with you....
I stand in solidarity with our native brothers and sisters
Why don't we see it as it is, a simple fact of greed and expansion. I believe what has been done to the Indigenous people of this continent is genocide. To subject nomadic souls to a life of confinement on a "reservation" is a real tragedy. There is an innate desire to roam and belong as one together with what you have, nature the world. Greed & expansion is what is taking away nature, the birds, the betterment of people.
Joe Brumfield thanks for your comment you just sliced it all
Stay strong !
@@holladaycummings7884 most native peoples weren't actually nomadic. That's a myth. Lakota weren't nomadic until horses were introduced by Europeans. Most were farmers and traders just like the rest of the world. The myth of the "noble savage" plays into this myth. Natives were and are just normal people like the rest of us. That's what makes everything that happened so horrible.
This is the voice of a true American. Thank you Russell for opening my eyes...🙏🏼
As United States Marine I as a Native American support everything This Great Man Says
Russell Means, I am daughter of Africa born on the land that belongs to your people. My heart breaks to see this engineered land of “immigrants” going on as if nothing has ever happened. But know that there are some of us who stand with your ancestors, the indigenous ancestors who stand with the Earth. May your people rise again and reclaim and purify the land that has been so polluted. Rest in Peace
as a native american woman it warms my soul to see so much support and kind words from people all over the world, it renews my hope that reconciliation can and will happen and that it will be done peacefully, there has been enough death and warring and trauma, we need to heal as we need to help the earth heal from all the trauma inflicted on it
did you mean assimilate or resist?
@@keetahbrough actually keetah, very clearly stated reconciliation. but migwetch for sharing your ignorance, as such ignorance is one of the reasons why i don't always feel hope that reconciliation will happen though and is why part of me sometime wishes wwiii will have its way with us and we'll all get to experience a nuclear holacaust - at least those of us who survive the bombs and other war stuff that our cowardly world leaders will throw at us.
and so today thanks to ppl like you keetah, i'm hoping wwiii happens soon and quickly so i get to be done with the bs and don't ever have to deal with 💩 like you
Stay strong Beautiful people of the First Nations! One day things will change.. For you! And all over the world who have suffered so much. 🙏 😊 And Mother Earth can heal also 🌎 🌏 Love and light from a Indonesian tribe ❤❤❤
I am as white as they come. I am a birthright American, born is Southeastern, Pennsylvania 80-years ago. After being brainwashed by my society for many years, I looked back at how I was conditioned, and to an extent, rejected it. I have come to realize the civilized do not know how to live in the Environments of our planet, and so civilization will fail, taking the US with it. It is the indigenous people of our planet who know how to live on our planet. The people of the civilized simply have to acknowledge that fact and then they will be able to learn from the indigenous people that remain. Continued human life on the planet will not continue unless that is done -- soon!
@@nickright7747 The key seems to be "Living in Harmony with the Environment" instead of the civilized idea of "Conquering and Subduing the Environment". I know of nothing in the indigenous way of life that precludes Technology or suppresses it. Indigenous people are more concerned with the well-being of all the members of their societies than the civilized. Their `need' for Technology is less, and thus more gradually acquired. Indigenous people "know how to live" where civilized people rushed to Technology, ever more completely dividing their society, devastating the Environment and allowing their population to explode, in these ways the civilized "forgot how to live"in the Environments of our planet..
@@rspiesr This view is just another iteration of the "noble savage" myth. Natives aren't special people in that they have some sort of supernatural connection to the environment that others do not. They were and are human beings like you and me with many good qualities and with many faults. Garbage like this belittles Natives and try's to turn them into helpless children who with only the help of good willed white people will save the world from its over-expansive industrialization.
*Hardcore eye-roll*
@@dylanstuckey3824 The best example that indigenous people know how to live in the environments of our planet is that they DO live in the environments of our planet and have done so for countless generations. Contrast that with the civilized who live by exploitation, not `in harmony' with the environment. What will the civilized do when they have exhausted what they are exploiting? Their society will collapse and their inflated populations will soon starve and die. This is why I say the civilized have placed themselves in an utterly futile contest with the environment, a contest the environment certainly will not lose.
Zionists exploit them, not WhytePeople.
I support them.
@@nickright7747 thats not the right attitude Nick.
You're being missed so badly. Mankind needs someone like Russel Means.
Long live the Spirit of Russel Means!
Thank you Lakota People's Law project for posting this meaningful message from Russell, personally I can't get enough, he's opened my eyes and now America means stolen land to me, wish I could give it back along with the power you should have over every other people in this country, every American should know the Constitution is based on Indian Law. The most powerful law for a reason.
Now this man, ladies and gentlemen, is what a true warrior, gentlemen and a real human being looks like ! Look again, and listen, their aren't so many around these days !
r.i.p. Russell we love you .
It's a damn shame we can't get someone as legendary as him to run for president! Damn man.. one of the most remarkable human beings that ever walked on this planet!
Right Mr. Daniel everybody else is running 🏃♂️ for President like when Mr. Obama ran for it, but let's NOT forget who help him get there and what foolishness had to take place before, during, an after he got out, but like I said why not give the AMERICAN Indians a chances, but only if they want to do it that way you never know? then, just maybe we can finally have a better AMERICAN system right now how about that. Godbless 😊
We keep missing the point, we don't need remarkable people to run for presidency in different countries, we collectively need to awaken and "lead" with integrity, caring for a piece of land thus managing our own health and helping each other within rural communities, all we need to do, out of the system, of slavery, feeding it no more but working with nature only and teaching our kids and grandkids that EARTH IS THE MOST SACRED, never leave it again.
R.I.P. MR.MEANS
your fire is still neaded today. There is and always will be wisdom in your words.🔥
FIRST NATION FOREVER
A great warrior walked on.
He was a great man. Inspiration for all races.
Never forgotten
Bless him and all my cousins.
Miyutake Oyasin
Wado
I have great respect for this man!!!
My family and I drove through Cheyenne, lakota and Navajo nation last year. Our native brothers and sisters need help! I'm originally from mexico (mexica) and its painfull seeing people like me suffering. Something has to be done to give the first nations a voice. RIP Russell Means!!
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What a great man. He speaks the truth. RIP Russell Means
Powerful man...powerful words...
Have a sweet journey, my brother. I am an American Indian, Cherokee, and an African American, no way to trace my distant ancestry. I am very proud of both of my ancestrial ties but I am closer to my Indian roots through my family ties. I continue to explore and learn more of these as I grow older. What this country has done to both of my 'fathers' and 'mothers' is just unspeakrable. What they continue to do is unspeakeable and illegal! As my brother say "Prove me wrong", prove 'us' wrong!
Mexicans , central americans , native americans and first nations people of canada using colonial terms. We are one people indigenous to this continent .
We are all African. Humans moved out of that continent to other locations through the millennia. Until we recognize we are all connected to each other and to Mother Earth, we will continue sliding down. ¡Arriba y adelante! All One ONE LOVE
Before Nazi Germany, before the introduction of these governments types, republic's, dictatorships, socialism, was the conquest of Christianity fought by tribes that lived there. Germanic, Slavic, even Irish and Scottish, Icelandic, and Norse tribes, fierce warriors, colonized by Christiandom, histories burned, people forced to believe a new religion, speak a new language and be treated as slaved workers who's lands are ransacked and who's tribal rites are seen as savage and evil and who's new government system from places like England, Byzantine empire, who went through the same earlier in history, market, sell, and assimalated their system onto those tribes.
It's not that we don't want a certain people here or not. All indigenous people who were ravaged by colonialism caused by Christianity, Catholicism, and Islam and all instituons of government that came as a result, systems based on money and debt, land property stolen and now owned by people with papers and signatures and man made laws deconstructed.
All the Sacred tribes of Earth met their end to religious conquest. All subsequent governments and tragedies are a result of an imperial extremist and system assimilation designed to get more people to worship this or that and to bring more money and power to the civilization that adopted those religions and funded the colonialism of every other tribes on Earth.
They destroyed Egypt.
They destroyed Jerusalem.
They destroyed Greece.
They destroyed Rome.
They destroyed South, Meso, North America.
They destroyed Ireland, Scotland, Syria, Turkey, England, Middle Eastern countries, East Asian, look at Japan, as soon as the commercial business of England began trading with Japan long ago, they then brought in government to get them up to date on weapons to destroy Samurai, Shogun, their philosophies, their ideals, mocked their bravery, cut their hair, put them in suits, made them pay, and left.
Turkey, Syria, was once Mesopotamia.
Look at Africa.
The first people to enslave them as people was the religious state of Islam to build power, then afterwards, with negotiating with Southern Europe and Portugal whom were ruled by the monarchist government and Catholic church, which divided away from Christianity, managed to get The North Atlantic Slave trade up and running with Colombus at the helm.
I like to imagine what Dr Martin Luther King Jr would've done had he not been killed by some ignorant Caucasian Protestant, I think he would've took it all the way, all the way back to Africa and really became a good long for Africa, instead, over 90 percent of American Africans have no connection to their ancestral language, heritage, lineage, so most of the youth put pride in that money life, lost, and it's not just them, my people, from Mexico to Nicaragua, we build pyramids, mapped the stars earlier and with more accuracy than Rome and Greece would for centuries, and they call us Hispanic and Latin, the language of the people who came, conquered by disease, subjected us to religious conversion or death and language and government system assimilation, then when Spain collapsed, the helm of the Catholic Army, we were left with corrupt government's with lots of weapons, and 3rd world countries as a result of their conquest to build their religions and empires and taking and using everything. Hell as recent as 2019 they refuse to apologize to Mexico for their rape of our culture, country, people, and destruction of history, language and way of life .
Believing in Jesus had nothing to do with it. The Bible and all the church has done and do today are against the actions of Christ. Completely.
Same with the prophet Muhammed for the religion of Islam. Who based their religion off copying certain aspects of the Bible, aspects that let worshippers believe that going and crusading, pillaging, stealing, enslaving, lynching, burning, defiling, and denying was okay to do to the rest of the world.
Even the painting of Christ as a light skinned male, with blue eyes, light hair, in movies, pictures, churches, that's a Sin.
False idolization of self.
Self being the Roman empire turned Christian by someone who wrote the Bible the way it was written on purpose, to go to war. Anti-Semitic. That's why Muslims are anti-Semitic.
And with Christianity owning half of Europe and Muslims fighting them from all of The Middle East. Both enslaving tribes destroying lives to reach power over the other, like dominoes did tribes fall.
We used to trade if we needed. Grow. Hunt. Build. We wereone with nature. All tribes. We were warriors with knowledge that still perplexes scientists.
That was beautiful. We didn't even war with one another, not like that. Money wasn't a thing. It's not real. The native Americans didn't even have a word in their language for "ruler or owner of land" things were sacred. That's what we want, a return to the experience of living and inventing and building and learning. Not working our short fleeting lives as employees selling water that comes from the earth.
It wasn't a devil or a serpent, but man's will to dominate other men that made Eden into Earth.
The real Antichrist is the church.
The real savaged and barbarians are the government's who killed in the name of expansion for country and church.
The Jewish people have been beaten down since the beginning, what have they ever done except fight to get their land back only to have it be taken by Christians and then from them by Muslims ages ago to say they both have ancient validity? That's what we don't want. All races and ancestral people are sacred, but people became lost and the cause of power effected the world to seek it as well. That's what we don't want.
And we aren't African.
We are all different races and have different ancestral lineage but are of the same species.
We are all humans. We are all alive right now.
We all have been enslaved at one point. We have all suffered.
We have to fight together or divided remain conquered till we're gone.
No do youre fucking research maya, aztec, and inca were true kingdoms. We are not the same
America colonized the Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro peoples in the Pacific islands as well.
I hate seeing RUSSELL MEANS like this!! I know he is with the GREAT SPIRIT now but I will always miss his fire---and his will for his people!!! MAY YOU ALWAYS BE BLESSED AND YOUR FAMILY AS WELL RUSSELL MEANS!!!!
"WADO"---Julie, IT MEANS THANK YOU IN CHEROKEE!!
i did not know.....
I met Russel and he is/was such a beautiful fun happy spirit. His advocacy and passion and dedication I find inspiring, hopefully to many. Grateful for all videos of those that inspire people to do more than talk, but take actions and time to change.
There’s a fire in a young mans eyes I seen this winter. Russ’s grandson. Little wild man long shaggy hair.
Colonization is the Devil.....america is a lie built upon lies blood theft murder genocide.... As a outsider to the N.A.P it is clearly apparent to me even before spending a year with and among my Indigenous Brothers. There is a lot of pain. May the great spirit have mercy on all of us for what has occurred.
Hoka Heya Today is a good day to die
What a great man. May you rest in peace brother. I feel deeply for your people and their struggle. An injustice has been committed against all the first nations and there is a worldwide awareness happening now. As people become informed and educate themselves, they start to share with others and so begins the hope of a better life for all of us. Peace and blessings to all.
RIP to the great one Russell💙
genocide,not a very pretty word,but that IS the fact of the matter...this man speaks TRUTH
And what about you and your family and your community and mine too! How strong would we all be if we ALL spoke Truth to each other for just 30 days ! Refuse to lie for 30 days ! What would the whole world be like ! ??
He speaks the truth. He words will live on and inspire others. May Creator be with the Lakota. Now I know why I have been praying for the Lakota Nation more and more. Creator help us all and may we be wise and courageous in the days to come.
Russell the Brave Heart
I love you my brother! Thanks for everything you did! We are forever grateful!Mitakuye Oyasin!
Thank you Russell Means. We need more Truth-Speakers like you in our world today! Iam very happy to know they exist, and working right now to see what can be done to bring them to light and into the visibility of our world once more. Thank you all - those who have suffered in all generations past and to all who continue to suffer today - may we find a way to unite in our common bonds of Humanity, across all divides and perceived differences - not just for one People, but for All of the People.
very honored to have met him.
I met Russel once, at college. I have followed him as best as I could. Latinos and Blacks have a common cause with you. You are not forgotten.
Truth is these problems are becoming worse instead of better for our people. Tankashila please help our people.😰😭😭
Lakota pi ki cante tinza pi.....Lakota have strong hearts. This man, my Father's cousin, is a perfect example of that.
Cousin, you have walked on, but your spirit lives.
God bless Russell means. May we realize all his wishes . May the Indian nations rise again in Jesus's mighty name.
Russell Means....I know you've passed, and to all Lakota, all tribes, and all peoples of this world, we are at the beginning of the end of the pain and suffering that the elite evil ones have put us through. We will be free of the devilish control that these governments have oppressed us with from the beginning of time! To all my brothers and sister whether you are Native, White, Black etc. Any color, we are all one and this darkness that divides us ends now. EVIL HAS LOST! THE LIGHT HAS WON!! Love and light to you all!! ❤️❤️❤️
We miss you so bad my brother will never let our heritage die
Never ❤️🔥
Socrates stated that even after his death he will still live on, through the ideal not the presence. Russell you live on through us, even after b your eyes closed and heart stopped. You will forever live on within the hearts of your people, and those who love your people, and other Native Americans...
I work on a northern Minnesota REZ and I drove through the Pine Ridge REZ a few years ago and it has haunted me since.. How dare the US government let these people live the way they are. their best land is taken for farming by others and politics run wild. Mr Means is so right on! I listened to a young adult that had left to attend college and came back to try to help make things better. He told me what the statics are of unemployment, death and other atrocisites on the rez are. this issue needs to be brought to the attention of the top government officials and go to these people to see what can be done to help them get on thier feet again!
That's probably the worst thing that could happen. Government trying to fix things rarely works out well.... And I think Russell would've agreed.
yes agreed. The Black Hills need to be returned to them. Even a royalty on the profits from Mount Rushmore would make a huge difference. You can't take all of the valuable land from people and expect them to survive.
Rest in peace great hero! I know you are with your ancestors and I know that you are happy. As an Australian your values are what make me who I am, yet I never claim to be Lakota or indian ever. Thank you for honouring us all with your presence on earth, we are all related. Guided by the great mystery we all are, the universe.
Russell Means preferred to be called " Native American " 😳
I will post this EVERYDAY , (I’m 1/8 Cherokee, have all my genealogy records from grand mother ) born & raised in KY. near the trail of tears . I’ve been following you On you tube for many moons . Genocide, I’ll call it out by name . I will save this post . YOU HAVE BEEN A GREAT WARRIOR , CRAZY HORSE , GERONIMO, RED CLOUD, LEONARD PELTIER , JOHN TRUDEL , ETC, ETC, ETC . IVE NEVER TRUSTED the “ gvt “ and never will . I don’t vote , what’s the point ?
R.I.P. RUSSELL MEANS
Kathy Barnett and I am 25% Cherokee.
Cherokee from Kentucky as well shut out!
Thank you, O Great Spirit, for your strong heart, your pure words, and your powerful inspiration. Your presence is still here in the land that was once yours.
Russell Means miss you and your voice. When you spoke I always trusted you. I hope to see you in the after.
You are a Hero and very wise man and may you rest in peace RIP . Great man and speaks the truth with his heart . Sad he had to go through so much and his people . God help us all and repent cause we are not a great nation . Sad , sad, how they are treating people and wants to take over . Stand up people for what is right and speak up now .
thank you for sharing ..rest in peace russell means,we will never forget you..
Why are Native Americans not treated the same as every other American??? Why are Americans allowing this to happen!!! Have Americans got no shame??? Here in New Zealand, where our indigenous people, the Maori, lost their lands etc to white settlement in colonial days, they have been paid compensation for what our ancestors did ....& this is on-going ....the Maori language which was forbidden, is now taught in school to ALL NZ children, whether white or Maori. Our National Anthem is now sung in English AND Maori. The Maori culture is greatly encouraged & is a big part of every NZ persons life, whether white or Maori. I could go on, but I think you get the point. The country of America was stolen off the Native Americans, & all treaties broken & promises were lies. And Americans still allow these people to be so badly treated. Shame on you America!!!
Dwyllis Harrison I love being native thx bro
Exactly, the white settlers here in America should have embraced the natives of this land and learned from them instead of trying to wipe them out. I believe America could have been a much better and truely FREE country. Its so sad that they live in poverty and have nothing to really look forward to. They should have all that they need amd more. If the government wont give them back their lands well the least they could do is pay them, each and every one of them. There are families on the reservations that are so poor they dont even have basic needs for their children. How can we as human beings allow this to go on in america today? The government should be dropping off fresh food and water to them every month as well as clothes and personal care items. Twice a year they should be helping to build better and livable housing. They could build at least 10 houses a year as a donation to these people. They deserve so much better why cant the government stop being such an asshole and pay back what they owe?
It is against the law to discriminate against any people for any job, loan, etc ..in the US. Indians rise up in society just as well as any other American when they work and live right.
@@andreagarcia3934 Those 'whites' you are talking about should go back to Africa; those are not any really whites, but bleached Africans. Genetically American Indians are much more white than they are. I'm Indigenous European and American Indians absolutely do not have nothing to teach me, but they maybe should remember better their origin. They do deserve better, but are pretty brainwashed also not remembering who they really are. Lakota prayer Mitakuye Oyasin Mi ta ku ye O ya s i n is the oldest Indigenous European language showing where they came from, meaning "We the one who is O I are also they" connected with Indigenous European religion. In Europe Indigenous Europeans are victims of genocide nothing less than American Indians and according to official international history were extinct thousands of years ago; now genetic researches found that there is something wrong with history because according to their results this people still exist, and also do not move from their territory since their species exist - do not invade other people's territory around on other continents, but others continue to invade their territory and try to genocide them for thousands of years.
Andrea Garcia Don’t want to be paid, don’t want the free stuff. That would simply mean buying in to your way of life that is obviously not working well for most nowadays. I know you mean well. But this is not the solution.
Taking this to use as collection in my page. Please allow me to copy it. The man tried all along his life for the rights of the Indians who lived in harmony with nature until the goons arrived. How much pain he carried in his soul is not to be understand by ordinary person but those who feel the pain of another. Everytime I hear his name I feel his pain and anger like I am the one suffering.
May his soul be free and be able to find peace.
Rest In Power, Rest In Peace Russell Means. 🦅👣🥀
Much respect for this man.
Some tears for you my brother. Will never forget you.
I watched this great man speak to congress and everyone of those so called people who work for us were looking down or messing with papers in front of them, I have never seen so much disrespect and I don't cares in my life,I wanted to scream. I wish so bad that someone would pick up his life goals and FIGHT for what's right.
a great man
He is my spiritual Father and I miss him very very much his real daughter has the same name "Sherry" my american Indian name is Sacred Warrior my grand father was Lakota. Love to all Lakota and people
Well said! Miss Russell Means and his insights. Wise words from this elder.
Powerful! RIP Russell Means
Very wise man mr RUSSELL MEANS RIP
What a man this guy said it all and fought for everything the world could learn a lot listening to his words!
Share, speak, remind, care. Then progress. We have much to do my Brothers and Sisters. No I do not care what colour your skin is, nor the eyes that gifts me a portion of Spirit. We are all a Brave and Chief of a Tribe, much to large to grasp. And we are children, of the Great Spirit.
North Dugan Douglas please look at the video on my page. There is help available.
Zacatecas México hay fósiles bisonte americano la diferencia chaparros estamos al horno
Forever we've been separated. My heart wants to unite and my spirit wants the best.
Dam right Brother. Our ppl need our culture and our future
I will always remember Brave Eagle.
We miss you brother...
How can I help?
Thank you for your question! Lakota People's Law Project is committed to strengthening the sovereignty and life-ways of the Lakota People. Currently we are working closely with Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Reservations in the lead up to construction of the KXL Pipeline, as well as many land and family issues throughout the Great Sioux Nation. Thank you for your interest, learn more and get involved at www.LakotaLaw.org
Loved Russell Means.. such a shame watching such a prideful culturd and poeple die away. He was an amazing person . Got to meet him once back in oklahoMa in the 90s. Great man
words will live forever Russell we stand in the gap one day revolution will come one day
Truer now than you ever thought when you posted this 4 yrs ago luv
Love this man and his heart.🔥💘🔥
Full respect for Mr. Russel Means from this specwar Vet.
May his soul rest while his fight is continued by others.
HOO-YAH & God Bless ALL who Stand for Good.
You are deeply missed, Brave Eagle.
I wish he was still here
We miss your beautiful heart spirit mind Russell..... Hoka Heya
Don’t give up the fight!!!!
I am not American, but I say this from my heart.
If I were American and this is irrespective of my colour or race, I would walk away from the cities and the towns.
I would join these people on the reservations in solidarity to their cause.
And I would join them in the old ways without a second thought.
People when are you going to understand that your government and the corporate world does not love you?
They don't care about you, they use your tax money not for your benefit but to afflict pain on others
They let you sleep on the streets, they won't accept liability for any damage to your livelihood.
If you are sick or in need of health care and if you are homeless or cant afford it you are turned away from the hospitals.
You have no idea what it means to be free on the land.
The government needs you. What if you no longer need the government?
What if you no longer needed the one thing "they" count on you to need in order to feed their war machine?
What if you no longer need money?
One strong person, that is all it will take to change the way things are. Are you it?
Are you that person that begins a mass migration back to the land?
The land provides all you ever need, you only need to learn the skills required to do that....
Release yourself from the burdens of financial and emotional imprisonment.
Be the change you need to be, not only for yourself but for others.
The more of you who leave the institution the more of you who will follow.
If you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain.
Fresh Impact Co. peace, it's already happening
Indians are in my opinion a very special people,and my heart goes out them,and they deserve to be treated better,it doesn't matter our forefathers caused this it's up to the modern world to rectify it. May you rest in peace Brave Eagle.
Why can't we do a grass roots effort here? I believe what Mr Means has said in all of his videos is true. I was born white but I won't be sorry for who God made me. I do, however, love truth and justice and integrity. I don't know where to start. I was donating to St. Joseph school and started to feel that this may not be a school that teaches or passes on the Lakota culture or Traditions that the people want and need. So here I am again watching videos. For the first time I saw the Lakota Law addy. I guess that is my next stop. Surley there's a few hundred people who would be interested in making a difference and help these people get back on their feet?
JohnG11000 and we will
primrozie follow @forelijah on @Twitter. Dial into the story.
RIP Russell 💖
Dude has me crying
Native Hawaiian here, love my Native American brothers and sisters.
I met one of your brothers in Arizona. Love and Light to Lakota. 🐻
Gracias Russell, te escuchamos hermano.
Awsome. SPEACH for the American Indians
Where Logic meets wisdom .
Same here.. my launage of my ancestors is gone ... I have no traditions... don't separate me from you for I will fight for us both it's greed against humans. I admire you and I educate myself of what you speak and what you lead. Everything you say is truth ... heartbreaking disgusting truth... lead us ... lead us all!
Mr. Means,You are such a wonderful man and I love you very much.
Russell was great man.
You are 💯 on point. And no one is going to help us.
Please reup this everyday. Russell is still here my friends. 1Love ALL
God bless you Russell, this is so true your words speak the truth are creator will deal with this evilness. Hold the light in your heart with love to you and family
Russell Meens is a wonderful man and of good character and he is so right. Can't prove him wrong cuz he is right
To Zack & R.Earnest: Genocide happens all over the world and has all through history. It's wrong and anyone having taken part in it will will surely face our Creator about what they've done to His people. Quit arguing about the past and maybe be a part of the solution. Address the situations Mr. Means said is critical and that was years ago!
I have the utmost respect for you
I am stunned that anyone would place a negative vote when he spoke the truth, his words still speak and will for a very long long time
Came across this Feb 18 2024. Mahalo nui loa 🤙
What has transpired. Towards many indigenous peoples. It what started with the 1666 Three Crowns Act. And is directly connected to certain personality traits... Those that are Con Artist of all Con Artist. Are we heading to 90% of people being wiped out. The world stage appears to be heading straight into such a direction....
4:22
Creator thank you for this soul
The government does not care about anyone, white, red, black, brown, etc....your race does not mean anything to them. They would cut one of their own down if it served their political purpose. I do believe in my heart that the Indians are the most
mistreated people in America. And I also believe America will reap what she has sown.
well said im from england an listening to this is so upsetting. we are all as one and should always be there for one another.
I agree ime white male also from the uk it's disgusting what these people and other tribes all over the world have to suffer greed and power they want for nothing a very simple live and to be free spirits and have their culture returned with know conditions applied sad world we live in
bloodjl, a sad truth. Yahweh is fed up; this empire is only beginning to suffer the consequences. Indeed, we will reap what we have sown. Russell Means is a true hero. His wife is as well.
Grandfather's blessings.🌲🕇
Elise, aka Godgirl
bloodjl Ahh, you better f#/^&*g believe it brother. This man Russell lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mikee marsh well we're going to change that!
One of the best man I ever heard.
He really was knowing about the destroying behaviour of the US government!Blessings to his family
This truly is one of the best men EVER walk mother earth without any doubt, we truly are born slaves and conditioned from birth to work under these Whatever you call them, ( Social security number) proves that basically.
By God shame.
Miss you brother and I will see you in our great grandfather's house
Hero!