Relying upon traditional knowledge and native plants, indigenous people have been treating illnesses successfully for thousands of years. After the arrival of Europeans on this continent, however, medicine became one of the battlefields in the cultural war.
Both patients and students of healing had to choose between traditional practices and Western medicine. Patients who used herbs or went to medicine people felt compelled to keep that secret from their Western doctors, who wanted to focus upon treating the patient’s body without regard for the mind or spirit.
Indians who went to medical school, meanwhile, found a fiercely competitive, inhumane atmosphere, which would not tolerate their commitments to family or their cultural taboos. Instead of humility, a basic value of Native culture, they found affirmation of egotistical behavior.
Fort Berthold Field Organizer
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Dakota Resource Council, North Dakota’s only homegrown, statewide, multi-issue grassroots organization is looking for a full-time field organizer working with DRC members on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The primary responsibility of the position will be working with members of DRC affiliate Fort Berthold POWER to advance their campaigns and grow their membership. Initial issue responsibilities will include campaigns aimed at mitigating the impacts of oil and gas development, and promoting the development of renewable energy.
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2. Empowering individuals to speak for themselves by identifying and developing a diverse group of members who agree to serve as the organization’s public voice on a variety of issues.
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The managing crew of Charging Eagle Enterprises, LLC, and Big Lease Trucking, both of Killdeer, stand outside the main office in Killdeer Friday, April 23, 2021. From left, Charging Eagles Operations Manager Jake Peasley, AP/HR Lavae Williams, HR Amber Schmidt, Big Lease Trucking Operations Manager Duane Frick and owner of Charging Eagle Enterprises, LLC, and Big Lease Trucking Casey Fredericks pose for a shot. (Jackie Jahfetson/The Dickinson Press) (Jackie Jahfetson/The Dickinson Press)
DeSmog
Aug 19, 2019 @ 12:56
In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size of two bottled water delivery jugs.
But a whistle-blower has revealed to DeSmog the incident is actually on par with the 1989
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, which released roughly 11 million gallons of thick crude.
The Garden Creek spill “is in fact over 11 million gallons of condensate that leaked through a crack in a pipeline for over 3 years,” says the whistle-blower, who has expertise in environmental science but refused to be named or give other background information for fear of losing their job. They provided to DeSmog a document that details remediation efforts and verifies the spill’s monstrous size.