News Release
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
On June 7th 2022, the Kanaka relatives in Hawaii along with the Water Protectors across the Hawaiian Archipelago will raise the “Red Flag for Change” for all the Indigenous children forced to attend Federal Indian Board Schools in the United States, Hawaii, and Alaska. The destruction of burial sites of our ancestors stops today!
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe requests all Indigenous Nations on June 7th to Stand Up and Light your Sage/Smudge at 2:00 p.m. CDT for all boarding school children and ancestors, to have a global prayer for protection of our children’s burial sites. Also, on this day the Red Flag of Protection goes up for the children, globally.
The “Raising of the Red Flag” symbolizes that “we stand up for our children.” The Red Flag will continue to be raised to bring awareness globally until Congress amends the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) to make this law apply to all lands, regardless of land status and regardless of location. We request that Congress conduct congressional field hearings on the findings of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report. All Boarding School Children’s burial sites and known-unknown burial areas located on non-federal lands have no protection. We ask for them through prayer.
No more digging and desecrating our children’s burial locations and all human remains in Hawaii. The Kanaka relatives raise the Red Flag in Hawaii to call attention to the digging and desecration of burial sites on all the Hawaiian Archipelago Islands.
The Kanaka relatives along with the Water Protectors across the Hawaiian Archipelago and global Water Protectors issue a call to action: the “Red Flag is Up.” They will be gathering in Honolulu, Hawaii June 6-8, 2022. The in-person conference will also be livestreamed on social media. We are requesting that U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Congress hear and take action to change the law. Every child matters. Water Protectors unite!
About the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Straddling the South Dakota and North Dakota border, the Standing Rock Reservation covers 2.3 million acres, stretching across endless prairie plains, rolling hills and buttes that border the Missouri River. Home to the Lakota and Dakota nations, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is committed to protecting the language, culture and well-being of its people through economic development, technology advancement, community engagement and education. In 2016 and 2017, Standing Rock gained international attention when tens of thousands of allies came to protest camps to oppose the Dakota Access pipeline, which continues to threaten the tribe’s sole source of fresh drinking water in Lake Oahe and the Missouri River.
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