When they arrive and enter into their Wakan (Great Spirit)/"Rum" River ancestral homeland territory they will be entering into a sanctuary of theirs. The Dakota's ancestors did not build churches or temples to be sanctuaries for them to gather in and honor their Great Spirit. Their sanctuary, in what is now known as Anoka, was their sacred river and land on both sides of it. When the great reunion begins, the Dakota will be returning to Anoka in numbers and they will be returning to a sanctuary of theirs.

Upon arriving, they will become aware of what is sacred and what is profane within this sanctuary of theirs. Upon the south bank of their Anoka area sanctuary they will see a Roman Catholic - Inter Caetera Papal Bull and genocidal maniac Christopher Columbus glorifying - building of the Knights of Columbus.

And upon closer examination they will see a gross desecration of their sacred Dakota sanctuary, it being comparable to a Nazis swastika in a Jewish synagogue. I am referring to the desecrating logo located on the Knights of Columbus building. I believe that this Knights of Columbus logo is a gross violation of the Dakota human right to receive due respect for their traditional religion, their human right to own land and their human right to full sovereignty. I also believe that it constitutes HATE SPEECH, a gross violation of a Dakota human right.

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Access to sacred Native sites is also a human right associated with governments responsibility to giving due respect for Native's traditional religions. Because all of the City of Anoka "belongs" to the United States, the City of Anoka can not give it, or even a part of Anoka, back to the Dakota. However, I believe that in order to show due respect for the Dakota's traditional religion...or, in order to not violate a Dakota human right, the City of Anoka should give the Dakota the land now called Point Two Rivers Historic Park, an ancient and sacred Dakota sacred site and gathering place. And give it to them for sacred gatherings, where they can come and pray, meditate, take part in sacred ceremonies, remember and honor their ancestors who uses to gather together at "the point", a sacred Dakota site.
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Another Violation Of The Dakota's Human Right To Be Free From Derogatory Hate Speech In Anoka.

Hate speech contributes to the commission of gross human rights violations. I believe that parks, trails and nature areas, etc. that are located in Anoka and any where else within the Dakota's sacred Wakan (Great Spirit)/"Rum" River Watershed ancestral/traditional homeland and are also named with the derogatory "Rum River" name constitute HATE SPEECH, a gross violation of a Dakota human right.

A quotation from a historical document written by Vickie Wendel, the manager of the Anoka Country Historical Society Center and a board member of the Anoka Country Historical Society. In this historical document (River file # 26) Wendel informs us that..."in a 1868 St. Paul Daily Pioneer article, the "Rum" River name is listed, along with some other geographic names, as 'Profane'".

"The 'profane name' was already in use by some in 1861, as was the animosity toward the native people of Minnesota. A St. Paul newspaper reported."

A quotation from "Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origins and Historic Significances" by Warren Upham, published by the Minnesota Historical Society: "Nicollet's map, published in 1843, has 'Iskode Wabo or Rum R., this name given by the Ojibways, but derived by them from the white men's perversion of the ancient Sioux name Wakan, being in more exact translation "Fire Water."

Another quotation from "Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origins and Historic Significances": The name of Rum river, which Carver in 1766 and Pike in 1805 found in use by English-speaking fur traders, was indirectly derived from the Sioux. Their name of Mille Lacs, Mde Wakan, translated Spirit lake, was given to its river, but was changed by the white man to the most common spirituous liquor brought into the Northwest, rum, which brought misery and ruin, as Du Luth observed of brandy, to many of the Indians..."

After eleven years of working to change the HATE SPEECH derogatory name of the "Rum" River, and having received Minnesota Dakota/Indian tribal, international, national and state-wide supporters for the effort, including support from the Minnesota Historical Society Indian Advisory Committee, the Upper Sioux Community and the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community...the City of Anoka has still not given its support for the effort to change the river's derogatory name, nor has it changed the name of a park, trail or nature area with the derogatory "Rum River" name; which, I believe, is promoting HATE SPEECH, a gross violation of a Dakota human right.

I believe that because the "Rum River" name desecrates a sacred Dakota site as well as indirectly desecrates the Dakota's traditional name for their Great Spirit (Wakan), that the "Rum River" name is, therefore, a gross violation of a religious human right of the Dakota people. And I believe that because the City of Anoka has not yet given its support for the effort to change the profane name of the "Rum River", it is, therefore, continuing to grossly violate a religious human right of the Dakota people. And I believe that because Anoka has not changed the names of any of its parks, trail, or nature area, etc. that have the profane "Rum" River name, Anoka, therefore, in respect to these profanely named parks, trial, nature area etc., continues to grossly violate a religious human right of the Dakota people.

I also believe that, with the exception of Cambridge, Minnesota, all of the other cities and counties located on the Wakan (Great Spirit)/"Rum" River corridor are also grossly violating these same Dakota human rights. I believe that Cambridge still has a ways to go before it is fully respecting all of the Dakota people's human rights. However, I believe that it is making good progress toward achieving this goal.

I also believe that the advertising and selling of alcoholic beverages in Anoka and through out the sacred Dakota's Wakan (Great Spirit)/"Rum" River Watershed ancestral/traditional homeland...or, the advertising and selling of addictive and dangerous substances that were used by the white European invaders to lure many of the Dakota from their sacred Wakan (Great Spirit)/"Rum" River Watershed homeland (a part of the Dakota land stealing process), and also used by white European invaders to instigate and foment Dakota/Ojibwe intertribal warfare, which lead to a band of Ojibwe being tricked and used by the white European invaders to force, with the help of French guns and gun powder bombs, the remaining Dakota from their sacred Wakan (Great Spirit)/"Rum" River Watershed homeland (another part of the Dakota land steal process) - constitutes HATE SPEECH, a gross violation of a Dakota human right. Reference

Violations Of The Dakota's Human Right To Adequate Health Care in Anoka.

Governments are obligated to respect, protect and fulfill the human right to health by taking positive action to protect all of the different ethnic/racial/cultural group's health and by refraining from or preventing negative actions that interfere with their health. I am committed to researching and advocating on behalf of the Dakota people who, I believe, are being denied their human right to adequate health care in Anoka.

To this present-day the alcohol-abuse genocide being perpetrated against Natives continues on within the Dakota's ancestral homeland. In a Mille Lacs Messenger newspaper article, subtitled: "300 gather to note the toll by alcohol abuse", Melvin Eagle, the hereditary Chief of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is quoted as saying: "Alcoholism is not our traditional way. We need to try to pull together and away from alcohol because it is destroying our people." An article about how alcohol was used to steal the Dakota's Wakan (Great Spirit)/"Rum" River Watershed ancestral/traditional homeland is located at http://www.towahkon.org/Dakotahistory.html.

"The toll taken by alcohol-related problems on the American Indian/Alaska Native community in which 70 percent of the population lives off the reservation, is particularly staggering. For example, The death rate due to cirrhosis is 2.7 times that of the overall population rate, and the rates of alcohol-related hospital admissions, suicides, and automobile accidents are significantly elevated. Overall alcohol-related mortality for AI/AN populations has been found to be almost four times that of Caucasians. The National Household Survey of Drug Use, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, reported that the rate of any alcohol use in AI/AN populations was similar to overall population rates; however, the rate of alcohol dependence was 60 percent higher. The alcohol-related deaths among Indian adolescents ages 15 to 24 are 17 times higher than the national average." Reference

Study: 12 Percent Of Indian Deaths Due To Alcohol

In the United States 10% of men and 5% of women who start drinking alcohol will become habitual abusers of alcohol. And in a study published in the March 2004 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research - evidence clearly shows that even small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy can have a significant impact on child development." This study found that: "There is no safe level of drinking during pregnancy and there is no safe time to drink during pregnancy." Multitudes of pre-born babies are being killed or severely brain damaged by their mother's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. In the U.S., 15% of pregnant women drink alcohol.

I believe that the City Council of Anoka is not doing what it should to minimize, and ultimately band, the advertisements and sells of alcoholic beverages in the City of Anoka. I believe that bars and liquor stores in Anoka are a violation of the Dakota's and other vulnerable people's human right to adequate health care.

A high percentage of the Dakota people are prone to catch the decease of alcoholism. When alcoholic beverages are advertised and easily available, they increasingly become a very dangerous and addictive substance that many Natives, including many Dakota people, have had a very difficult time not abusing. This has lead to many Natives of all tribes becoming victims to the white man's human rights violating actions that interfere with their and other vulnerable people's health.

During our nation's prohibition of alcohol era there was a movement to change the Rum River name. At the time, a lot of people did not want rivers and other geographic places to have names that were advertisements for alcoholic beverages, or addictive products that they considered harmful to society.

All of Anoka's city parks, trails, nature area, etc. that have a name that includes the name of an dangerous and addictive substance, such as (rum), should be changed. Their names are advertisements for an alcoholic beverage, or an addictive product that is harmful to the Dakota people's health. A group of people/tribe with a high percentage of its members being prone to catch the health and life destroying disease of alcoholism.

I believe that the parks, trials, nature areas with the Rum River name are violations of a human right associated with not preventing negative actions that interfere with the Dakota's health care. When the City Council of Anoka allowed parks, a trail, and a nature area, etc. to be named with the name of an addictive and dangerous produce, such as rum, it did not prevent negative actions that interfere with, both, the Dakota's health as well as to other vulnerable people's health. And this, I believe is a gross violation of a human right of theirs.

The Roman Catholic Church in Anoka, Saint Stephens Church, is also located in the Dakota's sanctuary. And this Roman Catholic Church lifts up and glorifies an alcoholic beverage during weekend and daily Masses. This, I believe, also desecrates the Dakota's sanctuary, and is therefore a violation of the Dakota human right to receive due respect for their traditional religion in Anoka. I also believe that it constitutes HATE SPEECH, a gross violation of a Dakota human right.