Four Worlds International Institute's video: Overview of the Protect the Sacred Gathering - Brave Heart Society Grandmother Faith Spotted Eagle

Overview of the Gathering to Protect the Sacred - Brave Heart Society Grandmother Faith Spotted Eagle, Ihanktonwan Homelands, South Dakota, January 23 - 25, 2013 A CALL FOR UNPRECEDENTED UNIFED ACTION TO PROTECT MOTHER EARTH At the Gathering to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects, we joined in solidarity and unprecedented unity and: • Honored all Indigenous First Nations, Tribes, Allies, and the Enduring Unity of the Oceti Sakowin, the Great Sioux Nation, and commemorated and honored the 150th Anniversary and reaffirmed the January 23, 1863 Peace Treaty between the Ihanktonwan and Pawnee Nations that was witnessed by the Ponca Nation and the United States Government. This Treaty has never been broken for more than 150 years. • Notified President Obama and the U.S. Government that the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline would be a further grave abrogation of the January 23, 1863 Treaty and possibly other related treaties and would have very regrettable consequences. For instance, on December 21st 2012 by Resolution, the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council also stated they were "vehemently opposed to the construction of the TransCanada/Keystone XL Pipeline Project on any Aboriginal or Treaty lands." • Held a Ceremonial Grand Council to Affirm a Unifying International Treaty between Indigenous Peoples and All Our Allies Who Seek to Protect the Sacred from the Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline. This International Treaty builds upon the Save the Fraser River Declaration, Rights of Mother Earth Accord, Indigenous Leaders Spiritual Declaration, the Sixteen Guiding Principles for Building a Harmonious World, the Coastal First Nations Declaration, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. • Built the Foundation for a Spiritually-Grounded, Principle-Centered Interdependent Campaign for Unprecedented Unified Action to Protect Our Sacred Mother Earth. JOIN AN UNPRECEDENTED CALL FOR UNIFIED ACTION TO PROTECT SACRED MOTHER EARTH - SIGN UP AT WWW.PROTECTTHESACRED.ORG Links Protect the Sacred http://www.protectthesacred.org Four Worlds International Institute http://www.fwii.net Some Day Fire Productions http://www.somedayfire.org http://www.youtube.com/somedayfire