By: NP/Staff Dec. 31, 2011

Native Americans join Occupy Wallstreet.

Brooklyn, NY – Native American Occupiers take the streets of Irondale, 85 South Oxford Street, in Brooklyn, NY Wall Street occupiers stood in unity with Indigenous Americans from all different tribes in the U.S.

“We are taking action on this day, on the 121st anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, in order to initiate an open dialogue with indigenous Americans, to raise local and national awareness of ongoing Native struggles, and to recognize that the injustices and inequalities we all currently confront are the bricks and mortar of conquest and settler colonialism.” said Occupy Wall street in a news release.

In attendance, Janice Richards, Oglala Lakota, Activist and Educator Jake Little, Oglala Lakota, Activist and Educator Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota, Activist, Artist, Host of First Voices Radio Firewolf Nelson-Wong, Diné, AIM Member and Activist Demelza Champagne, Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Activist and Scholar Members of AMERINDA: American Indian Artists, Inc. Gloria Miguel, Kuna, performed excerpts from her one-woman play, “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue”

“conditions of capitalist exploitation are predicated upon the acquisition of territory and the dispossession and dehumanization of indigenous peoples. The American political economy of greed is forever implicated in settler nationalism. Standing as allies with indigenous Americans, we seek to un-settle our consciousness. said Native occupiers.

There main goal, to Un-settling “occupation” calls us to remain cognizant that our movement unfolds on land seized by force, and compels us to take action in support of indigenous peoples—peoples for whom occupation has not been a choice, but a lived experience of oppression.  As they ask people to join them for a conversation about how Occupy Wall St. can move toward a radical un-settling of “occupation”—in vision and in action—and build a movement that is more expansive, more inclusive, more conscious, and more just.” said Native occupiers

Recently, a Facebook group forum was created “Occupy Window Rock” with 211 members, talks of protesting the current Navajo government, corruption, and certain issue revolving around Navajo Communities. the Navajo Nation is the largest Native American Tribe in the world, located in northern Arizona with over 300,000 tribal members.

Native occupiers also believe that as a movement striving to voice the experiences of the 99%, we must make space for those most marginalized by the mechanisms of settler colonialism: the original inhabitants of the land. Dismantling the rhetoric of colonialism enables us to subvert imperialist structures of power.

In addition, they go on to say by listening to indigenous perspectives on “occupation,” we move closer to creating a safe space for indigenous peoples to connect to the movement, and finding roads down which indigenous and non-indigenous collaborators can walk together, fight together, and engage in transformative intellectual, emotional, and direct action exchanges.

As the occupier protest Wall street, main street remains steadfast for a new year in 2012.