This Thanksgiving Thank an NDN

Keith Secola (NDN without land) standing in the removed section of the town of Parkville, MN. Behind him is where the neighborhood he grew up in used to be. It has also been removed to make way for expanding mining operations. Whole communities throughout the Mesabi and Vermillion portions of the Iron Range of Minnesota have been dismantled to make way for mineral extraction. The modern history of Turtle Island is the history of the removal of people from the land for the benefit of big business and resource extraction: It is both the history of the blood of NDNs removed through brutal, constant, and ongoing acts of genocide, and ironically it is also the history of settlers and colonizers who largely arrived on Turtle Island soaked in the sweat and tears of their own exploitation, and removed from their own homelands. Acknowledging the truth of our past will help lead us all to a better future. So, You got land? …Thank an NDN. And then let us unite against systemic greed for the sake of a better way for the next seven generations. (photograph by James Paavala 2011)

If you would like to appear in Keith's video for YOU GOT LAND? here's how:  http://www.thendnkar.blogspot.ca/2014/11/appear-in-keith-secola-music-video_4.html