Dear Foster Parents

"Mitakuye Oyasin" turned into a great spontaneous show, as it does sometime.

John Mackey, host of "Indian World," asked for time for a show he is considering doing in several weeks about foster care. John, Santee, is KBOO's engineer and also a foster parent. His foster parenting has lead to 1 adoption, soon to be two. He mentioned a few horror stories that he has dealt with through DHS here in Oregon. He is looking for more folks to come forward who are Native foster parents particularly ones from Oregon to tell their stories, good or bad. His e-mail is: engineer@kboo.org, if you are interested in participating.

John also mentioned that his father worked for Chemawa Indian School, in Salem, for a time. His father witnessed abuses by the staff of students. When he came forward with these allegations he was fired. He was told the reasons were that they didn't want anything negative to come out about what was going on there. They didn't want the outside world to see Indians in a negative light and that Indians would handle this issue.

On the Oyate-Oti website, Dean Lookinghawk ("Mitakuye Oyasin" member), has an article up about the recently pushed forward senate bill 787, which basically makes ALL water within the U.S. property of the U.S. government. Since the U.S. is corporate owned, by extension, that would suggest that ALL water is now corporate owned...EVEN ON RESERVATIONS! A clear VIOLATION of the U.S. constitution, article 6, section 2.

As well, we discussed carbon trading which is rather disgusting and does nothing to reduce pollution and helps traders make millions in trading off other peoples emission points. Here is a link to a youtube video about this issue as well.

We also discussed the recent massacre in Peru of Indigenous protesters who are trying to protect their land from corporations. An attetive caller who does an environmental show for KBOO, Scott Forester, mentioned that there is a bi-lateral trade agreement between the U.S. and Peru that has made such a massacre possible. My fear is that this was a false flag attack and that it will be used as an excuse by the government of Peru to further oppress and attack Indigenous people to steal their land and resources for multi-national corporations.

Sometimes "Mitakuye Oyasin" just comes together, and today was one of those days. Thanks to Dean Lookinghawk, Louis Sowa, and John Mackey for their help.