Little Creek Camp

01/31/2024

The subcommittee meeting for HF 2082, the bill to strip gender identity from Iowa’s civil rights code.

03/08/2023

Recognize!

We want to share our love & solidarity this International Women’s Day. Today is a day that is made to recognize Peoples who have been disenfranchised based on their gender. So, this is a shout to all relatives who are non-binary, female-bodied, or who identify fully as women. We support you and we are doing the best we can to fight for our rights.

02/12/2023

This is what we mean by systemic. No one pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. They pulled themselves up by systems designed specifically for them to win. Yes, you worked hard. You also were given massive amounts of opportunity on the backs of entire populations. Might I add, those systems are starting to turn on you. You may want to study actual history and listen to the ppl who have already endured what’s coming for you now.

~ Marie Krebs, Apache ~

11/24/2022

Celebrate with the Truth this year.

Truthsgiving is an ideology that must be enacted through truth-telling and mutual aid to discourage the colonial thanksgiving mythology. We must tell and do the truth to stop dangerous stereotypes and whitewashed history from continuing to harm.

11/12/2022

It’s Truthsgiving time!!! Let’s decolonize this land!

https://fb.watch/gKIra1B97w/

10/26/2022

We are in Des Moines to talk about CO2 Pipelines and tell the dangerous, greenwashed truth about them.

09/29/2022

White folks own 98% of agricultural land in the US, meaning that the majority of these proposed CO2 pipelines go through white-owned farms and public lands. However, beyond supporting landowners in this fight, it is vital that we educate and empower those living in urban centers, Indigenous nations, and migrant communities in the fight to stop these dangerous, greenwashed CCS projects. Not owning land does not mean your voice is not important concerning this issue.

So, join us in Sioux City next Tuesday and help us activate the city to pass a resolution to prohibit CO2 pipelines from going through the area.

08/29/2022

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Tribal sovereignty is at risk and historically racist tactics could be implemented once again in the name of child welfare – tribal rights and the ability to preserve their unique cultural identities, raise their own children and govern themselves now lies in the hands of the Supreme Court. The In...

08/15/2022

Indigenous stewardship is key to curbing the climate emergency. We don’t need Big-Oil’s money making greenwashing schemes—colonizers just need to give back stolen land and let the Indigenous experts take the lead.

Great Plains Action Society's Statement on C02 Pipelines

Great Plains Action Society is firmly opposed to proposed carbon capture and sequestration or storage (CCS) projects such as Summit’s Midwest Carbon Express, Navigator’s Heartland Greenway, and Wolf Carbon Solutions’ ADM pipelines. The reasons for our opposition are numerous, however, our greatest concern is that CCS only serves the interests of the fossil fuel industry and that the government will sanction further land theft and harm to communities on Indigenous territories. Carbon capture and sequestration is by design a way to prolong the usage of fossil fuels while reducing CO2 emissions. Amidst this climate emergency we must demand a reduction and phasing out of fossil fuels as a wider part of a just transition.

We are also concerned about intense water usage as drought and warmer temperatures are greatly affecting access to clean water. Fossil fuel companies have known that their products were contributing to climate change for over forty years and now they see CCS as a government bail out with many governmental subsidies providing just the type of perverse incentive for CCS operators to manipulate the system. Additionally, there are the same concerns present with other pipeline projects in the area regarding degradation of the land, disturbance of sacred ceremonial and burial sites. CO2 pipelines are also dangerous because when they rupture, they can spread over 1300 ft in under 4 min making it impossible to breathe and for vehicles to drive. First responders are not at all prepared to deal with such a catastrophe and many have been pushing back C02 pipelines for this reason alone. Furthermore, Indigenous communities will inevitably face encroachment on to treaty land, including environmentally racist moves on behalf of individual states to make sure that CCS does not negatively affect wealthy, white communities with influential power.

CCS is greenwashing rather than a solution to the climate emergency that Iowans deserve, as Indigenous people we remain committed to the water, the land and the future generations of Iowans.

More information is available at greatplainsaction.org/ccs