Check, one, two. Make some lines, everybody, please. [cheers and applause] when i say people, you say power. People, power. People. Power. People. Power. Im 16 years old from a tribe in mexico city. Honor to be here today. His is a critical time in this next phase that we are going to be living in in this country. We see the president making we need to make our voices heard. President trump then being us and we stand up and we resist and fight. When they green light the eystone and Dakota Access people are going to mobilize the fight to defend our land and children and demand our president honored reaties and sovereignty of our land. Together and we stand united. This is a gathering of all nations. All here because we are of this earth. We are here to protect the water we drink. We can not eat oil. Future ofl is not the our economy and country and not the future we will pass on to the next generation. Resisting, standing and saying no more. We are no longer going to allow our people. Aten we will no longer allow our government and corporations to in hand to threatens our water and human rights and indigenous rights. To sand r stand in solidarity and fight for freedom. This is bigger than any pipeline. The struggle for our freedom is a battle of a life time and will we let them win. I see many beautiful faces. People of all backgrounds here in solidarity because we understand that to efend the rights of Indigenous People is to protect this earth. In hand and we must honor those that came before. Indigenous people were here before any buildings were ear. Honor this connection we have to the earth lives within us all matter who we are the god we believe in or color of our skin this earth cted to and all drink the same water. An issue that unites all people. E are here to fight for change and justice and stand in solidarity with the people in this country. Continue to say no more for the pipelines to fracking removal p mountaintop removal. People. R greatest power on this planet is held by the people. So. Has always been looking back at the greatest changes made were from people power. Standing in our streets and courts and communities fighting for justice and solutions we want to see. This is a beautiful day, a day of celebration. Day to commemorate everything that we will create our here on out in honor of ancestors and those that came before us and fought to defend atlanland. We are defending and fighting for them. We have some beautiful speakers that rformers and artists will come to you. His is an incredibly symbolic day for the Justice Movement and black lives matter. Womens rights. Is uniting and gathering of all movements and nations. Rights and human fight for justice and climate way ce and transitional from fossil fuels. To be your emcee. Im here from the pueblo. 16 years old. I work at the International Indigenous youth the earth and or a lot of your faces i have seen here. Being here again. I do not have a beautiful introduction like my brother but i have some House Keeping things. Fawn you jody and know who you are. Meet us behind the stage and because this is the atlanta of free and Indigenous Lands we i want to let you know are not welcomed to stand on the white house sidewalk so please or face the sidewalk arrest. We are going to be making our stand. Making our voices heard from over here so help us focus over here. Lets keep the attention over here. Please stay off the sidewalk. To waulk from t ae native Organizers Alliance powerhouse of a woman and she spoke at the womens march and today so let in phame judith oblanc. Good morning. Im Judith Leblanc a member of nation of oklahoma and director of the native organi alliance. S Standing Rock changed everything. We interrupted and disrupted the based native of what American Indians are and it be never, ever, ever changed back. Sitting bull said let us put our to see what we can build for our children. Dave ashambeau of the sioux tribe is leader. Ntury indian he has put our minds together to. Hink about our children think about our children. Dave brought together the tribal people the pilot f Standing Rock sioux transcribe who supported the camp, sacred stone camp and people together from all over the world. Dave, chairman ashanbeau is a leader that has leader and shown that through prayer and people power we can win. Interrupted and disrupted the narrative of our must thank and ashambeau. Airman dave we are here to remain united. Lets show our unity. Standingre with you in ro rock. Rock sioux figroup filed the lawsuit. Want to thank everybody for coming but first i want to standing the youth of rock. Im here with the youth and i know that the youth have started this movement. The youth are the ones that said going to stand up against something that is not right. Who hese guys are the ones i make all my decisions on. For them. My choices i believe in them. To holler want to try and shun me, what you are doing u are shun being shunning the youth. Know that. O let you i love these guys with all my heart around they come from Standing Rock. On behalf of the Standing Rock sioux tribe i want to thank all you for your support for being here. People he last year around the world have sacrificed and traveled and stood with us rock. Anding stood we stand together once more in washington, d. C. We would not have made it this you. If not for all of i thank you for this. A lot of obstacles and setbacks, but we are not defeated. To be the going victims. Salobstacle is an opportunity and together all of us can confront these obstacles and we these opportunities and embrace them. Week rise. Tonight not only native pushedns are ignored and aside for the benefits of others. Communities are now experiencing what we have experienced for centuries. That is oppression. Our life is being destroyed. Instead of striving for mutual beneficial outcomes through nderstanding the new administration dictates. Instead of expanding Human Administration limits human rights. Nstead of inspiring the new administration manipulates. Reaties are signed with native american tribes, but when it ecomes inconvenient the troeutsz are ignored and broken. Equal ovide freedom and rights. For all put in place americans. Yet each week we see more basic threatened by this administration. American citizens today both native and nonnative ask the question why. What could possibly justify the dismissal of basic human respect . They call the doctor of the you guys, youlove know. I dont care what you guys say. Ok. Is it is ok for you to be upset. , is hat the real thing is that we are here for our youth and we are here for the future to understand why we face these obstacles. We have to understand what is causing this. This is our doctrine of discovery. He doctrine of discovery is an excuse for continuing to legitimize and take our rights. I love you guys all, too. I know Standing Rock, this monument marks the turning points of history. It is not only for our tribes but all tribes. Well. Merica as because the heart of our movement is now the heart of this movement is the heart of resistance. We want and need this movement and build and ultimately we need to continue the lessons we have learned so that we can advance. We are in the 21st century. His is no longer a matter of explorers or imperialists. All americans and above all we are all human beings. Be included. We deserve to be respected. Basic rve to have our rights considered when corporations seek to carry out he actions that could potentially harm our citizens. At this point in history we must consider our planet and natural resources. The future forre our children. Stood with us at Standing Rock and i ask you to stand with our Indigenous Community around the world and we can rise. I want to ask the chairman of a tribe to share about a proclamation we passed. The united sked states to revoke the doctrine of christian discovery. Am glad that he is here to we inue to understand why why we have and faced obstacles. Talk about the doctrine of discovery. Thank you for taking the time to me. Ten to together in unity we will rise strong and our rights will be respected. Speaking a foreign language] my nation, i s, serve alleges the khraeurpbl of here to and come stands together. The proclamation that is dave, the chairman of the Standing Rock sioux tribe please, please. This proclamation, please. We must remember this. We must remain of one voice, one hea heart. One spirit. O speak for those things that cannot speak for themselves. Dispute. No there is no dispute in and amongst ourselves of those of us that is moreing up important than the futures of our generations. Dispute. No we us must be united. T is only when we are united that the spirit will intervene nd reaffirm that only in peace and only in prayer grounded by ceremony nd guided by will we over cocome. Please. A proclamation that we will read today that is going to get into an understanding of why happening. Why are we losing our fight with regard to the protection of our for the esources generations that are yet to come . Ask for your d i patience because it is important understand to the best of my ability creator give me strength. Originations proclamation water is the source of all life on a joint statement sioux and d rock yakama. We gather here to commemorate our original and Free Independent existence as turtle island. T we have a message for the world the words of the dakota, water is a source of all life on mother earth. We are a distinct and spiritual predates the escape of america and its life creedo. Ng love, riches and woe. Extends nal existence back to the beginning of our time through our creation through our ounted oral history and tradition. We carry a message and warning today. Earth, love the waters of the earth. Care for orms of life them with deep and abiding honor and respect and they will sustain you. However be forewarned if you bonus and destroy them they will destroy you. That is natural law. Bee kwaoefqueathed this and their prayerful and ceremonial manner resulted in purest rivers,an streams and espective territories of our nation. Our ancestors used their natural nd intphaeutd intelligence to discern that water provides life urgs on mother earth. Our ancestors were given and evolved original instruction instruction, natural laws and wisdom teaches. Hey included the warnings remember, we follow in a the ceremony er and spiritual patterns of thought to enable us to maintain sacred and right relationship with the natural abundance of earth connected with all life forms this is our life today. Ing message for more than 500 years contrary orces of greed have worked to destroy our natural laws and love for mother earth. Have deflategately opposed they have greatly opposed our teaching and ony, Sacred Places with the idea they in western ndom europe. The sprortd ruling supreme other actions d med a right ofin r christian industry on the idea hristian nations of aoufrpb acquired jurisdiction over lands. JustIce Department made that in 1954 in the Supreme Court. Quoted Ice Department enesis 1 28 and become of psalms. Pattern of thought and behavior understood the wealth. Ove riches and the vatican becamal documents and colonizing world charters by selfdescribed christian monarchs that brought revealed the underlying code of come nation and ehumanization to attack our nation. The code expressed a belief system that is willing to everything on the cred of greed even the sake waters. To realize the unfortunate truth f this statement one has to only think of the lead and pwraeupblgs of children of where greed an etroit r destroyed rivers and when our ancestors carried for them. Government and corporatorses have a great disdain for our and teaches because they stand in the way of their love of riches and wealth. Hose forces that oppose us are blind to the spiritual nature quality of water. For them it is a means to create ore riches and wealth or a commodity to destroy in search of riches and wealth. Quality we stand here today and offer he following statement as a proclamation. Tribe e stand rock sioux we will call on owl nations nations to stand and sign on to this proclamation with us. He original proclamation of li life, originations proclamation creator tand that our has uniquely brought forth our a stence and our creation is free and original origin in an existence and wareness that has materialized on turtle island. E understand the ideas of domination and dehumanization as they are referenced in the instructions and warnings e have heeded for sustained existence as original free people. We understand that the discovery escape of formerly referred to as the doctrine of discovery used by of spain and england have manifested the idea and dehumanization against youre original free eople and we understand the doctrine of discovery by historical monarchies was unholy d by ininstruction by writ of papals in 452, 1455 and 1493 by and through former popeless Catholic Church. We understand the dominating and de haou ing force in the izing forming of america and the doctrine of f the discovery in the origin of federal indian law signed in the ruling by the Supreme Court in 1955 by reaffirmed in. He Supreme Court ruling we understand the judicial domination that being used by americas judicial and executive and legislative pwrapbgss an disputes with the original and free people of the nations such as Standing Rock fight with the advocacy of clean water. We understand that the negative domination and dehumanization warned about to collective free people by and through divine instruction negative idea that has been used by the roman atholic church, the monarchies of spain and england and United States of america. We understand that the continued use of the ideas of domination nd dehumanization shortens the sustained existence of our original free peoples an nations. Church, catholic england s of spain and and United States of america. We understand this to be natural expressed by our creators memorialized in divine instructions. We all upon all original free people of the nations of the Catholic Church and the monarchies of spain and england and the United States of understand this with us. We call upon the original free people the nations of the world specifically all native nations with. Francis, holy pe see and Catholic Church to revoke the historical issues unholy peopleal rules 1452, and 1455 and 1493 that are in direct conflict teachings of jesus christ. Of all on the monarchies spain and england to renounce the charters that resulted in dominion to land that were occupied by original free people turret many f island. We turtle island. We call on the United States of to discontinue the use of the Practical Application of and n day domination dehumanization acts materialized through the function of the executive, legislative and branches of its governance. He historical and modern day pplication of the spirit idea and our escape of domination and ending. Zation is do you understand . Do you understand . Yeah. Understand . Yeah my friends and relatives, it is only in peace and only in only under a united front indeed that we will over come come. I have a prayer in my heart for everyone who has contributed in ways to this fight and struggle for our future generations, for our natural those things that cannot speak for themselves. No matter what dispute has us as i have said no dispute in and amongst important thanre the future of the generations yet to come. Battle. Unite in this we must unite. In regard today that to the disputes and challenges and conflict with the the leadership of Standing Rock that i stand united with their leadership. Standing here today against the root and the cause ehind the domination and dehumanization of all of the the standsbattles of we have made and we will continue to make. Please ng everyone to let us all collectively humble ourselves, unite and stand together. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Keep this moving along. Thank you for your presence and and seeing you on the ground in this march. Looks what democracy like. Lets show them what democracy like. Lets show them what democracy looks like. What democracy looks like. Our next speaker is the the quinto indian nation. It is incredible to see how many ifferent voices of different nations are here to be part of the conversation. Indigenousing us the nation to the front showing we will not be forgotten and not be silent. Make noise for fawn shark. Good afternoon. We are honored to stand rock. Tanding would like to introduce my fellow Council Person eliza brown who serves on the tribal council. We have our youth and we have our royalty. We stand withStanding Rock and the present the tribes in northwest through the affiliated tribes of the northwest indians. As Vice President of the National Congress of a rican indians and we have very special message to deliver. Beginning of he ime the creator called our special and y strong people. The creator envisioned a every ight future for generation that will occupy island. And in those lands and territories along with that gift came instruction, very, very sacred instructions. One, protect mother earth birth mother. Ur be willing to ld lay down your life for your own to r, be willing mother be willing to lay down your life for mother earth. Issue is sacred. The second instruction, be humble. Recognize the power of grandfather ocean. Recognize that we are tphnot ows we do not have the authority nor the will to desecrate or harm in any way, shape or form the special gift that was meant to survive from here through eternity. We take action and dont humble ourselves and we land, you c