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    A call to conscience

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    Don Shoulderblade

    Northern Cheyenne

    Co-Founder: GOAL Tribal Coalition

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    Zahn McClarnon

    Standing Rock Sioux

    Actor: Westworld, Longmire, Fargo...

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    Chief Arvol Looking Horse

    Lakota

    19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe

    “We will not stand by in the land of our ancestors and watch grizzlies be blown apart by high-powered rifles and mutilated just to satiate the bloodlust of some rich, ‘great white hunters.’

    “Having respect for wildlife isn't all about being Native, it has more to do with being a human being. You don’t have to be an Indian to be part of this. I grew up in grizzly country and so my experiences with bears are extremely personal, and hunting them is absolutely crazy. Why would you hunt a grizzly bear?” 

    “We have to honor and respect Mato Oyate, the Grizzly Bear Nation, and secure a place in this world for them because the grizzly bears have an important place in our ceremonies.“ We see this relationship with the grizzly bear and all living beings of the earth as being part of a healing process. We talk about harmony, balance, understanding and the sacred relationship between all things, while others talk about trophy hunting,”

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    The Instagram video:

     

    This is a shorter version created for Instagram. Please post this video to your Instagram now, and if you stand with us against grizzly bear trophy hunting, pop it in your bio too! 

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    Read more at Native News Online:

    https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/not-in-our-name-westworld-star-leads-tribal-voices-in-opposing-impending-yellowstone-grizzly-trophy-hunt/

    Welcome to GOAL Tribal Coalition from CHAIRMAN BEARSHIELD

    Thank you for visiting our website!  GOAL is currently one of the largest tribal coalitions in North America, with some fifty federally recognized Indian tribes supported by the Assembly of First Nations.

     

    GOAL has taken the fight to protect the sacred grizzly bear and our religious and spiritual rights to the highest offices of the US Government, and many, including the House Natural Resources Committee, have cited our work. The grizzly bear is our ancestor, referred to as the Ancient One by many, and a grandparent by all. Tribal Nations oppose delisting on the basis of violations of sovereignty, treaty rights, and religious and spiritual freedoms. If federal protections are removed from the grizzly bear, protections on over 2 million acres of sacred land on which the grizzly bear roams will also be lifted, opening up Mother Earth to corporate exploitation.

     

    I am confident that this year we as a coalition will prevail on behalf of the grizzly bear and Mother Earth.

    I encourage all who support and are passionate about this sacred being to accept our invitation to stand with us.  

     

    Aho!

    CHAIRMAN DAVID BEARBOW BEARSHIELD

    Cheyenne-Arapaho-Kiowa

    The company that the Feds contracted to head to undertake the 'peer review' of grizzly delisting is a HALLIBURTON EXEC!

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    Oglala Sioux Tribe calls for CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION when Big Energy and trophy hunting ties are discovered in GRIZZLY DELISTING ISSUE!   click here

     

    Blackfoot Confederacy Leaders call U.S. government grizzly delisting an ACT OF “CULTURAL GENOCIDE” click here

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     MURDER IN YELLOWSTONE - The death of 'Scarface',  a 25 year old grizzly grandfather of Yellowstone offers state wildlife officials a terrible taste of what hunting a delisted Yellowstone grizzly might look like   click here  

     

    FEDS GAG TRIBAL VOICES INCLUDING LONGMIRE STAR & SPIRITUAL LEADERS AT PUBLIC GRIZZLY MEETINGS  click here

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    GOAL'S POSITION ON DELISTING

    SACRED GRIZZLY BEARS

    Putting aside the questionable science, the egregious manipulation of data, and the lack of transparency in the process, the federal government’s determination to remove the Yellowstone grizzly bear from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection currently contravenes the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA. PUBLIC LAW 95-341--AUG. 11, 1978), Executive Orders, and Secretarial Orders.

     

    According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the states of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, it is not “socially acceptable” for grizzlies to live beyond a constricted island they dub the “Primary Conservation Area” within the vast landscape of the West they once roamed before the march of Manifest Destiny.

     

    The dominant society’s perception of what is “socially acceptable” carries dark connotations for tribal people.  The grizzly, like our ancestors, is only going to be permitted to survive if it is confined to reservations.

    To leave will render the grizzly subject to open season.

     

    Read more here    

    See the reality of a grizzly hunt here 

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    VIDEOS WORTH WATCHING 

    DR JOE MEDICINE CROW  WALKS ON AT 102 YEARS. 

    SEE HIS LAST INTERVIEW ON THE CROW'S ELDER BROTHER - THE GRIZZLY

    TRIBES SLAM GRIZZLY DELISTING AS  CULTURAL GENOCIDE

     

    BIG ENERGY'S CONNECTION TO  DELISTING GRIZZLY BEARS IS EXPOSED

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    OGLALA LAKOTA VICE PRESIDENT  TOM POOR BEAR SPEAKS OUT AGAINST DELISTING THE GRIZZLY BEAR

    TRIBES DISRESPECTED BY FEDERAL &  STATE OFFICIALS IN GRIZZLY FIGHT

    SEE MORE VIDEOS HERE

    NEWS WORTH READING

    The San Carlos Apache relate the grizzly struggle to Oak Flat in their statement to the Obama Administration 

    “It is our belief, taught by our ancestors, that the grizzly bear is a grandmother and a grandfather,” explains Tao Etpison, Vice Chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe. “We have to respect them as people.

     

    When we are gathering or hunting in the mountains we’re taught not to talk about the grizzly bear. Such is our respect for the grizzly that we won’t say its name,” he continues.   Read the story here 

     GOAL Tribal Coalition leaders  take fight to save grizzly bears to the highest offices of the federal government.

    But despite tribes’ objections, Director Ashe informed the leaders that FWS still intends to issue the proposed rule to delist the grizzly bear by the end of the year.

    Read all about it HERE

    21st Century Treaty Breakers: Dep. Sec. Interior Mike Connor, USFWS Director Dan Ashe, Assoc. Director Bob Dreher, with GOAL leaders and Sho-Ban Vice Chairman LJ Tyler

    RANK HYPOCRISY

    Having beaten down the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wyoming is girding to cull the Greater Yellowstone grizzly population to 500 if delisting is not derailed.

     

    Click here to read the full story

    Tribes “disrespected” by federal and state officials in grizzly fight 

    “This has never happened before,”said James Walks Along, THPO for the Northern Cheyenne Nation. I was shocked by the disrespect I was shown.”

     

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    Cherokee Nation “urges” Secretary Jewell and Fish and Wildlife Service

    to “commence tribal consultation“ and warns of impacts on the grizzly’s survival

    if delisted.

     

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    UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES

    The politics of colonialism and greed fueling delisting:

    Whitebark Pine - Keystone to Afterthought in the Drive to Delist

     

    Fuzzy Math: How FWS and the tri-states made a 35% increase in the Yellowstone grizzly population in 12-months . . .

    No-Bear's-Land

    Paper Grizzlies vs. Real Bears

     

    Nits Make Lice Again -

    The genesis of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

     

    The foundation of Yellowstone National Park was nothing more than an act of imperialism inspired by Manifest Destiny:

    Yellowstone National Park: A Glimpse Behind the Myth

           

     

     

     

     

     

    Read more essays here

    TRIBAL LEADERS

    SUPPORTING GOAL 

    29 tribes opposing delisting grizzly bears

    The heart of Turtle Island (shaded in red) is GOAL Tribal Coalition Country : nearly 50 Tribal Nations united in a common cause - the protection of the sacred grizzly bear, the defense of tribal sovereignty,and the preservation of indigenous spiritual and religious rights. 

     

    "Preserving the grizzly equates to cultural preservation,"

    Chairman Robert Flyng Hawk, Yankton Sioux Tribe 

    Hopi Tribal Chairman Herman Honanie is against delisting endangered grizzly bears

    "It is not necessary to debate whether or not the grizzly bear is recovered, being as the government’s own population estimates show that there may be fewer than 1,400 grizzlies remaining

    in the contiguous United States, where, pre-Anglo European contact, it is believed that the grizzly population was in excess of 100,000.

    Some former government biologists warn that if federal protections are lifted, the grizzly could be doomed to the path of extinction within a decade."

     

    Chairman Herman G. Honanie,

    Hopi Tribe.

    Chief Arvol Looking Horse - 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe

    "Those that massacred our people also wiped out the Wámakaškaŋ – they wiped out the buffalo, the grizzlies and the wolves – and today that mindset is still there, that ‘disease of the mind’" 

    - Chief Arvol  Looking Horse

    President Obama at Standing Rock Indian Reservation

    "The grizzly has always been the guardian of our lands. If ESA protections are removed from the grizzly, our lands will be vulnerable to further environmental devastation due to the inevitable push to issue more energy

    leases once the restrictions on issuing such are relaxed if the grizzly is no longer on the ESA list."

     

    Chief Charles Weasel Head,

    Kainaiwa (Blood) Nation.

    RESOLUTIONS 

     & DECLARATIONS

    Almost 50 Tribal Nations  plus 640 First Nations in Canada support the mission of GOAL Tribal Coalition andoppose the delisting and trophy hunting of Grizzly bears.

    A total of nearly 50 have now passed official declarations, resolutions, or issued letters denouncing delisting to Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, or Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Dan Ashe. Read and download copies of those official communications here:   Make A Stand

    Eastern Shoshone tribal declaration against delisting endangered grizzly bears

    Rocky Mountain Tribal Leader's Council 

        Chippewa Cree Tribe

        Confederated Salish & Kootenai

        Crow Tribe

        Fort Belknap Assiniboine and Gros Ventre

        Fort Peck Tribes

        Little Shell Chippewa Tribe

        Blackfeet Nation

        Northern Cheyenne Nation

        Shoshone Bannock Nations

        Arapaho Nation

        Eastern Shoshone Nation

     

    Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association

        Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

        Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe

        Oglala Lakota Nation - support

        Oglala Lakota Nation - resolution  NEW!

        Rosebud Sioux Tribe

        Crow Creek Sioux Tribe

        Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate

        Spirit Lake Tribe

        Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

        Standing Rock Sioux  Tribe Resolution

        Yankton Sioux Tribe

        Winnebago Tribe

        Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

        Sac and Fox Nations

        Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

        Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation (Three     Affiliated Tribes)

       

    Cherokee Nation

    Chickasaw Nation

    Kainai Nation

    Kiowa Tribe

    Navajo Nation

    Northwest Band of Shoshone Nations

    Pawnee Nation

    Siksika Nation

    Piikan Nation

    Shoshone Paiute Nation

    Hopi Nation

    Hopi Bear Clan

    Zuni Tribe

    Zuni Religious Societies

    Ute Mountain ute Tribe

    San Carlos Apache 

     

    ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS, CANADA

     

    THIS IS 

    GOAL COUNTRY

     

    MORE SUPPORT

    FOR GOAL's MISSION 

    “I believe in this,” said Craig Johnson, the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Longmire mystery series . . .

    Robert Taylor and Longmire cast members support bears
    Robert Taylor and Longmire cast members support bears
    Robert Taylor and Longmire cast members support bears

    “Having respect for wildlife isn't all

    about being Native, it has more to do with being a human being.

    You don’t have to be

    an Indian to be

    part of this.” 

    Zahn McClarnon  (Standing Rock Sioux)

    Craig Johnson (author)   Robert Taylor (Walt Longmire),

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     Zahn McClarnon (Mathias)  Actor - 'Longmire'

     Steven Spielberg's 'Into the West.'

    Robert Taylor and Longmire cast members support bears

    “The Crows, like other Indians, respect grizzly bears. On vision quests we will sing to them to make contact with them, to be one with them, to receive

    their power,”

    Dr. Joe Medicine Crow

    Dr Joe Medicine Crow, at 102, the oldest member of the Crow Nation and suporter of GOAL's mission t save grizzly bears from delisting.

      ALERT!   

     

    WHAT THE POST-DELISTING WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE

     

    If this is what you want to see when you come into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the environs of Yellowstone National Park, then do nothing... but if you find these images abhorrent

       

     

    JOIN WITH US TO STOP DELISTING & GRIZZLY TROPHY HUNTING.

    Killer of Cecil the lion, Dr Walter Palmer, with a grizzly he slaughtered for 'fun

    Killer of Cecil the lion, Dr Walter Palmer,

    with a grizzly he slaughtered for 'fun.'

    Earth Justice against delisting endangered grizzly bears

    For more info related to the delisting of endangered 

    grizzly bears visit www.heybear.com 

    visit www.heybear.com to learn about the scientific myths being told about endangered grizzly bears
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