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“Take courage, the earth is all that remains.” [Lakota Noon: The Indian Narratives of Custer’s Defeat, Gregory Michno, 266]

Iron Hawk spoke these words to Little Bear who was saddling up to join the last minutes of fighting at Little Big Horn around 6 in the evening of 25 June, 1876. Almost immediately his horse was shot from under him and he took a bullet in the leg. As for what happened that day, you know.  And you know too what lay in store for the Lakota Sioux and their lands. So Iron Hawk’s encouraging phrase—‘the earth is all that remains’ seems curious if not outright ironic. Did he mean that we should take heart that this very earth that nourishes us and all life will endure despite our deaths, despite our brutality [the context of those words flashes up—men shooting, running, dying under a clear blue sky; and miners pouring into the basin to claim its minerals] or even what brutality we have yet to commit? The earth perdures, inviolable, beyond our reach. He did not know that this fecund, sovereign earth has hosted roughly 50 billion species since life began, more than 99% of which have disappeared– “Life today is little more than a rounding error.”  Nor was he aware that after 5 major mass-extinctions, we are currently in the 6^th, and by the end of the 21

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Jessica Mauboy

Australian singer

Jessica Hilda Mauboy (; born 4 August 1989) is an Australian singer. Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, she rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of Australian Idol, where she was runner-up and subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. After releasing a live album of her Idol performances and briefly being a member of the girl group Young Divas in 2007, Mauboy released her debut studio album, Been Waiting, the following year. It included her first number-one single, "Burn", and became the second highest-selling Australian album of 2009,^[2] certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).

Her second studio album, Get 'Em Girls (2010), showcased a harder-edged R&B sound, and produced four platinum singles. Her third studio album, Beautiful (2013), a mixture of dance-oriented tracks, R&B and pop, included the top-ten hits "Pop a Bottle (Fill Me Up)", "Never Be the Same" and "Can I Get a Moment?".

Aside from her music career, Mauboy has ventured into acting, with starring roles in the films Bran Nue Dae (2010), and The Sapphires (2012), which earned her the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She returned to acting in