Corrine Fairbanks
Corine Fairbanks is an Oglala Lakota writer, educator and activist. Fairbanks is currently the Director of the American Indian Movement of Southern California and a spokesperson for Native American rights.
Early life and education
Fairbanks was born and raised in Santa Barbara, and graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara. Fairbanks became involved in organizing in 1992 while learning under Fern Rosebud Eastman-Mathias, a great niece of Charles Eastman, of the American Indian Movement.
Activism
On October 15, 2012, Fairbanks led a successful petition to halt the sales of T-shirts labeled Manifest Destiny by the GAP brand.
In 2014, Fairbanks was involved in a coalition of Californian Native Nations against fracking that stimulated the Los Angeles City Council to ban fracking on February 28th, 2014.
In April 2015, Fairbanks protested the canonization of JunÃpero Serra who founded California Missions in the 18th and 19th century dramatically affecting the lives of California Indians. Public events against the canonization included a court of trial by descendants of California Mission Indians on September 21st and a day of mourning was observed on September 25, 2015. Fairbanks stated “How can anyone celebrate when the bones of Native Americans are buried within the walls of the mission.”
Literary works
Foreword for Lorin Morgan-Richards’ Me’ma and the Great Mountain.*
MEN
Kin 135: Blue Overtone Eagle
I empower in order to create
Commanding mind
I seal the output of vision
With the overtone tone of radiance
I am guided by the power of abundance.
The Earth, the stars, the Sun and all the planets are ultimately divine creation thought/forms emanating from a Central Source.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Muladhara Chakra (Seli Plasma)
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