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Inmates Express Concerns At Prison Pow Wow

Native Sun News – The pow wow at the Jameson Annex in the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls returned to the gymnasium on Saturday, Oct. 17 after being banned by prison officials in recent years.

Scheduled Oct. 15-17, the Cultural Conference and Pow wow was a successful event this past weekend. There were several speakers and presenters including world-champion hoop dancer and Oglala Sioux Tribal Liaison, Dallas Chief Eagle.

On Thur. Oct. 15, the Cultural Conference began with discussions and information provided by Executive Director of Iron House Council (IHC), Jennifer Hudson.

The Iron House Council’s One Heart One Mind Interpretive Center is based near Charles Town, W.Va. IHC is a Native American advocacy and support group.

“Our vision is to see the next generations learn the history, culture and traditions of the Cannupa in order to walk the Red Road,” according to their website http://www.ohomic.org.

Read more about the Cultural Conference & Pow Wow on Red Power Media

Hundreds See A Huge City Floating In The Clouds Above A Town In China

Now this is pretty creepy stuff!

The ‘floating city’ video allegedly captured in China has become an online phenomenon and the basis of countless new conspiracy theories.

Some Youtubers are questioning the validity of the story (and picture) because there seems to be only one video circulating in the news.

Many believe that if the ‘floating city’ were in fact a real occurance, there would be hundreds of pictures & videos throughout the Internet from perplexed onlookers– especially in today’s picture obsessed ‘Instagram’ society. I kind of agree, but the video is quite mind boggling. — and so are some of the theories surrounding it.

The fact that there is only one piece of media does kind of seem suspicious. It’s kind of hard to believe that only one person had their camera ready –especially since most of us keep our phones either glued to our hands or very close by. There is no way everybody and their mother wouldn’t have recorded this.

Check out this video on YOUTUBE and peep the comments.

What do YOU think this floating city is???

Join the discussion.

Maryland Man Murders Transgender Woman For ‘Embarrassing’ Him In Front Of Friends

Via CBS News–Police say 20-year-old Rico LeBlond shot and killed Zella Ziona, whose legal name was DeAndre Smith, on Oct. 15, because Ziona “began acting flamboyantly towards LeBlond and greatly embarrassed Leblond in front of his peers,” according to charging documents obtained by CBS affiliate WUSA.Investigators wrote in the document that the suspect and victim has been engaged in a “simmering dispute that had been escalating” as a result of their friendship becoming public.

LeBlond is suspected of shooting Ziona multiple times in the head and groin.

Police are considering hate crime charges against LeBlond, who is already facing a first degree murder charge.

But the victim’s family tells WUSA that they’re already convinced the motive was hate.

“I do believe in my heart that this was a hate crime,” said Kalany Thomas, Ziona’s aunt.

Kalany Thomas and Sade Thomas, a cousin of the victim, both told WUSA that Ziona previously had trouble with people because she was a transgender woman.

“I just want to know why?” Said Sade Thomas. “Why did you take such a beautiful, amazing soul like that and he was never the type of person to hate you or do anything to you?”

Twice as many transgender or gender nonconforming people have been killed in the United States this year compared to last year, according to statistics gathered by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, an advocacy group.