About Author: Wahkon

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http://www.towahkon.org
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I am an activist who is spearheading an international movement to change the name of a Minnesota river (the Rum River) back to its sacred Dakota Indian name [Wakan], which translated means Spirit or Great Spirit.

Posts by Wahkon

unknown author UhuruNews Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) The child abuse scandal ripping through the Roman Catholic Church is one more part of the overall crisis splitting the foundation of […]

The Roman Catholic Church crisis is a crisis of imperialism

unknown author UhuruNews Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) The child abuse scandal ripping through the Roman Catholic Church is one more part of the overall crisis splitting the foundation of […]

StarTribune article – no author mentioned http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/122749159.html New report, in part paid for by Catholic bishops, recycles rhetoric.   A newly issued report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic […]

Same old spin on sex abuse by priests

StarTribune article – no author mentioned http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/122749159.html New report, in part paid for by Catholic bishops, recycles rhetoric.   A newly issued report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic […]

[note: On April 27, 2011, the following letter was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper. It was the “letter of the week”. It is posted on […]

Scripture and Science

[note: On April 27, 2011, the following letter was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper. It was the “letter of the week”. It is posted on […]

By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer   Author and International Forum On Globalization (IFG) founder, Jerry Mander, whose organization (IFC) represents 60 organizations in 25 countries, wrote, in his article The Absents […]

A Struggle Against White Racism

By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer   Author and International Forum On Globalization (IFG) founder, Jerry Mander, whose organization (IFC) represents 60 organizations in 25 countries, wrote, in his article The Absents […]

by Thomas Dahlheimer Note: On March 2, 2011, the following letter was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger. Many of the Founding Fathers believed that America was God’s new Israel. […]

The American Imperialist Supremacy Delusion

by Thomas Dahlheimer Note: On March 2, 2011, the following letter was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger. Many of the Founding Fathers believed that America was God’s new Israel. […]

By Tanya Lee, Today correspondent Story Published: Nov 2, 2010 Story Updated: Oct 29, 2010   OSHKOSH, Wis. – The decision by the mayor of Oshkosh, Wis., to use the […]

Chief Oshkosh controversy brings back painful memories

By Tanya Lee, Today correspondent Story Published: Nov 2, 2010 Story Updated: Oct 29, 2010   OSHKOSH, Wis. – The decision by the mayor of Oshkosh, Wis., to use the […]

by: navajo Tue Sep 21, 2010 Today is the anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004. I attended the opening and walked with […]

Hiding Genocide: The National Museum of the American Indian

by: navajo Tue Sep 21, 2010 Today is the anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004. I attended the opening and walked with […]

By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer  Chief Leonard Wabasha’s interpretive sign at Mille Lacs Kathio State Park In 2008, when it was time for Minnesota to celebrate its sesquicentennial, Republican Governor Tim […]

Healing the Dakota People’s Painful Wounds Of Ethnocide and Genocide

By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer  Chief Leonard Wabasha’s interpretive sign at Mille Lacs Kathio State Park In 2008, when it was time for Minnesota to celebrate its sesquicentennial, Republican Governor Tim […]

from the Mexica Movement website Europeans first assaulted our Cemanahuac lands (“The Western Hemisphere”) with their terrorist attacks of 1492 (Columbus the pirate, enslaver, and genocidal murderer). In 1519 Europeans […]

Crimes of the Europeans

from the Mexica Movement website Europeans first assaulted our Cemanahuac lands (“The Western Hemisphere”) with their terrorist attacks of 1492 (Columbus the pirate, enslaver, and genocidal murderer). In 1519 Europeans […]

Video’s by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer Picture: Tom Dahlheimer and the Wakan/”Rum” River in Anoka, Minnesota _________________________________________________________________ (1.) The mouth of the Wakan/”Rum” River. This sacred Dakota river flows out of […]

Videos of the Dakota’s Wakan/"Rum" River Watershed ancestral/traditional homeland.

Video’s by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer Picture: Tom Dahlheimer and the Wakan/”Rum” River in Anoka, Minnesota _________________________________________________________________ (1.) The mouth of the Wakan/”Rum” River. This sacred Dakota river flows out of […]

by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer On August 11, 2010 the Mille Lacs Messenger, Mille lacs County’s official newspaper, published the following letter to the editor of mine. The letter was given […]

Go back to Europe

by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer On August 11, 2010 the Mille Lacs Messenger, Mille lacs County’s official newspaper, published the following letter to the editor of mine. The letter was given […]

   Reclaiming the Dakota’s Mde Wakan (Lake Mille Lacs) traditional homeland                           Picture of  Mde Wakan (Lake Mille Lacs)   Date:    July 24, 2010To:        Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community Tribal […]

Open letter to the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community Tribal Council

   Reclaiming the Dakota’s Mde Wakan (Lake Mille Lacs) traditional homeland                           Picture of  Mde Wakan (Lake Mille Lacs)   Date:    July 24, 2010To:        Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community Tribal […]

By Jon Lurie     Wyatt Thomas stood on the shore of Ogechie Lake, gazing down its distinctive hooked shoreline, lost in thought. He had never seen this lake before. […]

Dakota Rising

By Jon Lurie     Wyatt Thomas stood on the shore of Ogechie Lake, gazing down its distinctive hooked shoreline, lost in thought. He had never seen this lake before. […]

by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer ______________________________________________________________________ On Wednesday, April 14, 2010, The Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper, published the following letter of mine. The three paragraphs in italic type […]

Reconciliation Resolution

by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer ______________________________________________________________________ On Wednesday, April 14, 2010, The Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper, published the following letter of mine. The three paragraphs in italic type […]

By Thomas Dahlheimer Introduction:  In response to my recent Mille Lacs Messenger letter “Apology needed” the Messenger published Cheryl Anderson’s letter “A response to Mr. Dahlheimer“. And this week the […]

Sovereign nation status is insufficient

By Thomas Dahlheimer Introduction:  In response to my recent Mille Lacs Messenger letter “Apology needed” the Messenger published Cheryl Anderson’s letter “A response to Mr. Dahlheimer“. And this week the […]

The following letter was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger on March 17, 2010. Roman Catholic French colonists used the Ojibwe’s weakness to abuse alcohol during the fur trade era […]

Alcohol in the fur trade

The following letter was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger on March 17, 2010. Roman Catholic French colonists used the Ojibwe’s weakness to abuse alcohol during the fur trade era […]

by Thomas Dahlheimer Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death. 16,000 children die daily due tohunger. 800 million-plus people go to bed hungry, including 300 millionchildren. 2.7 billion people live […]

Eradicate World Poverty

by Thomas Dahlheimer Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death. 16,000 children die daily due tohunger. 800 million-plus people go to bed hungry, including 300 millionchildren. 2.7 billion people live […]

———————— by Thomas Dahlheimer This article is mostly about how and why European Christian colonists used alcohol as a chemical weapon of warfare in their genocidal and ethnic cleansing mistreatment […]

Alcohol was used to commit atrocities against Native people.

———————— by Thomas Dahlheimer This article is mostly about how and why European Christian colonists used alcohol as a chemical weapon of warfare in their genocidal and ethnic cleansing mistreatment […]

by Thomas Dahlheimer On September 9, the Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper, published the following letter to the editor of mine.  On Aug. 18, I met with Rep. […]

Apology needed

by Thomas Dahlheimer On September 9, the Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper, published the following letter to the editor of mine.  On Aug. 18, I met with Rep. […]

By Thomas Dahlheimer Minnesota Representative Dean Urdahl expects to offer an Apology Resolution (reconciliation bill) that apologizes for the mistreatment and exploitation of Minnesota’s indigenous people? Urdahl recently informed me […]

Minnesota Apology Resolution

By Thomas Dahlheimer Minnesota Representative Dean Urdahl expects to offer an Apology Resolution (reconciliation bill) that apologizes for the mistreatment and exploitation of Minnesota’s indigenous people? Urdahl recently informed me […]