Red Cloud Botanical Mahk piya śan Mihk Waskâw

12/14/2025

HAPPENING NOW 🚨📢🌿 Early this morning a land defender climbed into a giant cedar tree that was set to be cut down later today. A crew snuck undetected past 10km of exclusion zones, patrol cars and police checkpoints to set up this tree sit which now protects the last few ancient cedars in the upper walbran clear cut. Rings on the adjacent stump place these twin cedars around 600 years old. Make that 600 years and 1 day.

There is now a new active tree sit in the upper Walbran Valley. As of last night a total of 26 people have now been arrested trying to prevent continued old growth logging.

Stay posted!

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT

⚠️ Call/Email David Eby ⚠️

250-387-1715
premier@gov.bc.ca

Tell him to end the logging of old growth and primary forests in British Columbia.

COME TO CAMP

DIRECTIONS

From Lake Cowichan head towards Honeymoon Bay. From Honeymoon Bay ppdrive 21 km along S Shore Rd until the road splits, turn left onto Caycuse Main.

Follow Caycuse Main for 11 km until the road splits, then turn left onto McClure Main.

Follow McClure Main until you are on the north side of McClure Lake. Camp is located on a spur road into the clearcut. You will see us.

Camp location: 48.7507368, -124.5094561

These are dirt roads, however you do not need four-wheel-drive.

Please Donate to Elder Bill Jones and the land protectors legal defense fund.
https://chuffed.org/project/defend-the-upper-walbran-stand-with-pacheedaht-elder-bill-jones

12/04/2025

12/04/2025

My hunka 🖤🌻✨✊🏾

There were brave women on the battlefield too.
Among them stood Moving Robe Woman, a proud Hunkpapa Lakota—Sitting Bull’s own people.

From a young age, she walked the warrior’s path. At just 17, she joined a war party against the Crow. By July 1876, around age 23, she was camped with the Sioux and Lakota at the Greasy Grass—what history calls the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

That morning, she was simply digging turnips when a rider thundered past, warning the women to flee with their children. Custer’s soldiers were coming. Moving Robe Woman hurried back to her lodge, only to hear the news that would carve itself into her heart—her brother, One Hawk, had been killed in an earlier clash with Custer’s men.

Grief turned to fire. She braided her hair, painted her face the bold red of battle, mounted her horse, and lifted her brother’s war staff. With fierce resolve, she rode straight into the fight.

“I was a woman,” she later said. “But I was not afraid.”

Her courage strengthened the warriors around her, pushing them to defend their homeland with everything they had. By day’s end, the Native forces achieved a legendary victory—Custer and all 268 of his men were dead. History says at least one fell by Moving Robe Woman’s own hand.

But victory did not mean celebration. “No one danced that night,” she recalled. “We mourned our own dead.”

Moving Robe Woman lived a long life, passing away in 1935 at Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota, around the age of 81. Her story remains a testament to courage, grief, and an unbreakable spirit. 🐎🔥🌾

12/04/2025

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