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Message #1054 posted by ozone again (Info) July 24, 2006 19:29:16 ET
Announcing the 5th Annual Lakota Hemp Days
This years Lakota Hemp Days (LHD) will take place on Friday September 1st, through Monday September 4th 2006, Labor Day weekend, at Kiza Park, 3 miles north of Manderson, SD (go to http://www.HempHoeDown.com for a map to the event), next to the hemp fields grown by the White Plume’s on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where hemp was re-legalized in 1998. This year’s workshops will include making hemp paper, from stalk to finished product, using a hemp break, a hemp comb, and a Hollander Beater that creates paper pulp from the raw hemp fiber.
Other workshops include wind and solar energy (using as a model the on-site wind/solar project), how to make hemp-based salve for skin care, and how to build using adobe/straw bale methods. We will build an onsite bench out of adobe.
As in years past, attendees will get a chance to witness and feel living hemp that grows wild on the reservation and all over the Midwest and great plains, as well as in the southeast, northeast, southwest, far west, and northwest.
Alex White Plume (Oglala Sioux Tribe vice-president and head of the only family to cultivate and sell a hemp crop within the U.S. since the 1960s) and his family lost their latest appeal, in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, to grow hemp under the auspices of tribal sovereignty stemming from the Ft. Laramie treaty of 1868, which allows for the Lakota to plant any crop they see fit to harvest. This means that a permanent injunction against the White Plume and friends from so much as touching the hemp plants is still in place. Go to Hemphasis.net for information on this saga.
Next up will be an attempt by the White Plumes to operate a test plot under license from the DEA. Only one test plot has ever been given for industrial hemp, in the State of Hawaii.
Friday is an arrival day and Monday is a departure day, with the workshops and the bulk of the activities taking place on Saturday and Sunday the 2nd and 3rd. Tipi camping, using tipis already set up, will be available for a fee. Tent and RV camping is available for a small fee, as well. The event is free, but donations to the White Plume legal defense fund are appreciated.
The paper made at this event will be painted on by Lance Martin and auctioned off at a later date.
Bring your own food, warm clothes and summer clothes, and lots of water. Each evening, meals with hulled hemp seed (soft hemp) will be available for a small fee. This is the only event in the United States where attendees can work with hemp from a crop to a finished product. If you come, be prepared to work hard, to get dirty, to learn, to respect Mother Earth, and to be a part of the most progressive hemp movement in the U.S. This is a chance for activist, farmers, experts, and interested parties to get together and learn hands-on how to work with hemp.
For more information go to http://www.HempHoeDown.com. More information will be released at the beginning of August.
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