
EVERYTHING NEW IS HIDDEN IN THE PAST
A native rock music movement to empower an Indigenous voice in the pursuit of peace, human rights, social justice, the health of Mother Earth, and all our relations.
A native rock music movement to empower an Indigenous voice in the pursuit of peace, human rights, social justice, the health of Mother Earth, and all our relations.
On September 17, 1851 the historic Fort Laramie Treaty was signed between the United States and representatives of the Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Crow, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations. The United States acknowledged that all the land covered by the treaty was Indian territory.
Before the ink was dry, the treaty was broken.
In the century that followed, over 500 broken treaties made with Native Nations were also broken—which has degraded the social and cultural survival of Indigenous peoples and the environmental health of Mother Earth.
Together, let's challenge the United States Congress to #RightTheWrong of at least one of the more than 500 broken treaties made with Native Nations.
Standing Rock is a powerful moment in history with World attention and an opportunity to lead us socially, environmentally and spiritually from a path of destruction to a path of healing. A path that honors the rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Rights of Mother Earth and all our relations for the generations to come.
In 2016, Robby joined the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and Water Protectors on the front-lines of an historic Indigenous resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline—an oil pipeline snaking through 1851 treaty land adjacent to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Inspired by passion, wisdom, and courage Robby wrote BORN ON THE REZ. For the recording at Capital Records, Robby gathered a group of Grammy Award-winning musicians including: Jim Cox, Jim Keltner, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Mirabal, and Don Was. A sneak peek of BORN ON THE REZ was first heard on Moccasin Wire, a Native show hosted by Pat Romero of Taos Pueblo on KTAO 101.9FM, World Famous Solar Radio. The single took off impacting Native Radio from the heart of the Lakota Nation on KLND 89.5FM and KILI 90.1FM across Indian Country.
Music, eco-friendly T-shirts, handmade jewelry, hand-crafted drums and rattles, silk scarves, bandanas, books, posters, patches, acoustic solo performances, and one-of-a-kind autographed collectibles by award-winning artists.
For more than 500 years Indigenous Children around the world have been shattered by oppression and deculturalization. Today, our children remain at risk and suffer the highest rates of illness, suicide, poverty, isolation, and despair. The time of shame, fear, and suffering is over. Let the healing begin.
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We've curated a collection of Native American literature—to help fill in the blanks of American his-story.
The Taos Environmental Film Festival, in partnership with the UNM-Taos Digital Media Arts program, presents a special Mother Earth Day Celebration at the UNM-Taos Bataan Hall from 11am to 1pm showcasing a collection of music pictures from musician and filmmaker, Robby Romero. The UNM-Taos Digital Media Arts Program will have an interactive Canon camera display with Canon Rep and Pro Photographer, Matthew Carman. Canon gear will be on display featuring a range of new cameras and lenses for participants to experience with a focus on environmental filmmaking from 11am to 2pm.
The Mother Earth Day screening will include Robby's first music picture release, IS IT TOO LATE, which was broadcast nationally on Earth Day in 1990 from the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., where Robby opened and closed the events for the Earth Day Network.
The 17th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) 16-27 April 2018 commenced today at United Nations Headquarters, New York. This years theme is: “Indigenous Peoples’ Collective Rights to Lands, Territories and Resources”
"Safeguarding the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Mother Earth is a call to conscience — key to the restoration of life in balance." - Robby Romero
On this day in 1937 Dennis James Banks was born in the Anishinaabe territories on the Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation. At the age of four, Dennis was stolen from the arms of his mother and placed into US Indian Boarding Schools. He was terrorized and de-culturalized. The US Governments efforts failed and gave rise to one of Indian Country's most influential leaders. Dennis led a movement to exist, resist, indigenize and decolonize. He fought for Religious Freedom, Treaty Rights, Self Determination, and Sovereignty. On November 4, 2017, Ojibwa Warrior Dennis Banks was buried amongst the traditional ceremonies, language, songs and prayers he tirelessly fought to protect and preserve for all Indigenous Peoples.
29 April 2018 marks the 150th Anniversary of the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1868. On April 14, 2018, ceremonies will be held in Green Grass, South Dakota to begin an historic Treaty Ride from Standing Rock Lakota Reservation to Ft. Laramie, Wyoming. On behalf off the #Honor1851Treaty Campaign, Robby Romero will join Treaty Riders from the Oceti Sakowin Seven Council Fires of the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota People to challenge the United States Congress to #RightTheWrong of at least one of the more than 500 broken treaties made with Native Nations.