"the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Four Oaks Spiritual Encampment Destroyed

Four Oaks Spiritual Encampment Destroyed

from Jim Anderson, Cultural Chairman of
the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community
the People's Voice ~ Saturday, December 11, 1999

Over 100 police raided the encampment around 7am. The four oaks in the four directions have been cut, as have nearly all of the other trees that had remained around the four oaks. Three people remain in the trees and have yet to be removed. Thirty-three people have been arrested and are in the Hennepin County jail (612-348-5112).
The sacred sweat lodge was dismantled by the state police, the sacred pipe, and other sacred items handled. Amazingly absent was the blatant brutality of the police towards the protestors. Today there was no tear gas. pepper spray, or pain-compliance holds.
We will return to protect the sacred spring. This is not over yet.
Rally against injustice and cultural genocide, and in support of the arrested at the Hennepin County Government Center on 5th Street, between 3rd Ave and 4th Ave., December 12, 1999 at 4:00 p.m.

For more information contact:
Jim Anderson, Cultural Chairman of the
Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community
Phone: (612) 910-0730 ~ MMDC Phone: 651/452-4141
Camp Cell Phone: (651) 398-5249
Bob Greenberg of Earth First
Phone: 612/879-8929 ~ E-mail: power4u@MTN.ORG
Related paths:
Mendota Sacred Sites Site by Diane Kerr
The Occupation of Highway 55 Site by Tom Taylor
The Reroute of Highway 55
"Save Minnehaha Park. Build Transit First."