This used to be my playground.

One day my friend asked me if I had heard about Minnehaha, which in my language means waterfall. I said "I have heard of it, I used to play there when I was little," but then I found out that the State Of Minnesota had been secretly planning to destroy a section of the eldest State Park in existence, the part with the Native American Sacred Site and a fresh clean Cold Water Springs (the last one remaining in Minne-apolis). Minne, = water, water that flows from the veins of our grandmother down to a little pond built by the first of the non-Indigenous people to take refuge in Minnesota, a miss-pronounced Dakota word meaning smoke from the water (minne,shotah),. They were dying of dysentery and the indigenous people showed them where the medicine was, Cold Water Springs. Common decency and medicine water, we all know what you are supposed to say when someone does something nice for you. History tells us that these smelly Euro-migrants got better and then built themselves a replica of A Nazi death camp, called it Snelling And helped The U.S. Government GENOCIDE over 50,000,000. Of the heathen savages to date. Massacre after Massacre after massacre. The holocaust must end.

The weekend plans were to visit a spot along the Minnehaha parkway which is the beginning of an old growth oak savanna and the original site of the Minnehaha Freestate witch began with the arrival of a big "A" tent supplied by Earth First!, a tipi that the bdote bdewakonton warriors erected, and a sacred fire was lit,. In those days we had every right to believe that we could help Al and Carol Kratz save there home of 43 years, Al was sick and his journey was about to begin, surely the Dpt. Of Transportation wasn’t about to kick them out of there home in the winter, we were so bold as to believe that we could at least stall them long enough to make a difference. And now 18 months later the four mighty Bur oaks along with miles of natural Minnesota woodlands are gone forever. The most sacred place of the Dakota, at bdote Taku Wakon Tipi has finally been destroyed. The cold water springs are in jeopardy as well, please sign our petition and call your elected officials in the state so this precious resource might be saved for the generations to come.

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic erasing of the existence of a people and all proof of there culture and society, Al and Carol know the way it feels to be Dakota they were chased from their home in the snow of December. Rest in peace Al.

Eonka Monie emakiapa, Do.

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