Re: [EMMAS] Powerful words from Leonard Peltier

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In article <bv1au7$cln$1@pencil.math.missouri.edu: , cherie@cs.pdx.edu says...
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: > > We are not embattled with the color of man, but with
: the weakness of man, a mindset that lusts for power and wealth at the
: expense of life.<<
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Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
Woman Warrior at Wounded Knee
http://www.annamaejustice.com/

STATEMENT FROM LEONARD PELTIER
REGARDING ANNA MAE AQUASH
http://mytwobeadsworth.com/LPDCAM62503.html

Chronology of Events
http://www.leonardpeltier.org/jmchrono.html

Anna Mae Aquash
http://www.blackmesais.org/Anna_Mae_Aquash.htm
Introduction

| From the era of Native American political activism and
militancy during the early 1970s, there is no more
haunting figure than Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. An active
American Indian Movement (AIM) member, as well as mother,
wife, social worker, and day care teacher, her image is
powerful as much for her untimely death as for her
life's work. Found murdered on the Pine Ridge
Reservation during a time of tremendous social and
political upheaval, she has become a symbol of the
movement for Indian rights.

Childhood on a Micmac reserve

Aquash was born on March 27, 1945 to Mary Ellen Pictou
and Francis Thomas Levi, both Micmac Indians.
She came into the world in a small Indian village just
outside the town of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Levi left before Anna Mae was born, and Mary Ellen's
third grade education didn't provide her the skills
required to support her children. Still a young woman
herself, Mary Ellen Pictou admitted to being a little
too unsettled to offer her girls much in the way of
discipline. Aquash spent her early years in an
atmosphere of poverty and uncertainty.

Aquash's mother married Noel Sapier, a Micmac
traditionalist, in 1949. A strong believer in the
preservation of what was left of the Micmac culture
and religion, Sapier brought discipline and emotional
security to the family. He moved them to Pictou's
Landing, another small Micmac reserve, and tried to
make a living between seasonal farmhand jobs and
traditional craftwork. Although they were still very
poor, Aquash learned a great deal about the richness
of her people's culture at this time.

Poverty often breeds disease, and conditions were very
poor at Pictou's Landing. In 1953, Aquash was plagued
with recurrent eye infections. By the time an Indian
Department physician recognized the signs of
tuberculosis of the eye, Aquash had already developed
tuberculosis of the lung. She recovered but was
physically weak for some time afterward.

In 1956, Noel Sapier died of cancer, and a new phase
of Aquash's childhood began....
http://www.blackmesais.org/Anna_Mae_Aquash.htm

"She really dedicated herself to the Indians.
She took a real interest in the old days."
Russell Loud Hawk, an Oglala elder
http://www.indiancountrynews.com/aquashlegacy.cfm

Oglala says brother, Arlo Looking Cloud
was involved in orders that led to execution
of Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash
http://www.indiancountrynews.com/2elk1.cfm

: This is a message to all people regardless of color:
:
: Leonard Peltier
: PO Box 583
: Lawrence, KS 66044
: http://www.leonardpeltier.org
: Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
:
: January 23, 2004
:
: Hau Kola, Hello my friends, my relatives:
:
: You can never imagine the heartfelt comfort it brings to know you're not
: forgotten in prison. This is my 28th year, and I've seen others come and
: go and return again. I can't help but feel a great sorrow for many of
: these young men who keep coming back for one reason or another; most of
: which are alcohol related offenses. So much has changed since I came here
: and yet, in many ways, it's still the same.
:
: The government, under the pretext of security and progress, liberated us
: from our land, resources, culture, dignity and future. They violated every
: treaty they ever made with us. I use the word "liberated" loosely and
: sarcastically, in the same vein that I view their use of the words
: "collateral damage" when they kill innocent men, women, and children.
:
: They describe people defending their homeland as terrorists, savages and
: hostiles, and accuse us of being aggressors. We have never fought a battle
: or war that was not on our own land; we never fired the first shot ...
: ever. My words reach out to the non-Indian: Look now before it's far too
: late - see what is being done to others in your name and see what
: destruction you sanction when you say nothing. Your own treaty, the one
: between yourselves and the government, is being violated daily; this
: treaty is commonly known as the Constitution.
:
: With us, they started a little at a time, encroaching on our rights until
: we had none at all. It will be the same for the Constitution; this is not
: conjecture, but fact. We are not embattled with the color of man, but with
: the weakness of man, a mindset that lusts for power and wealth at the
: expense of life.
:
: Men of all colors, cultures and religions must stand together to oppose
: the genocidal policies that face us all as the corporate world seeks to
: enslave all, and pit one nation against another.
:
: If you avoid breaking laws and do what you're told and ignore the poor,
: the oppressed and the downtrodden - you probably won't be bothered. If you
: try to right what is wrong, however, you will surely meet great opposition
: and run the risk of imprisonment or death.
:
: I am a Sun Dancer. I took a vow for my people. I chose to seek the
: Creator's will and to follow it to the best of my ability. I WILL NOT
: STAND DOWN FROM THAT VOW. I will continue to speak, write and organize
: until Grandfather himself quiets my life. If I can do this in prison, I
: have no doubt you can do much better from where you stand.
:
: I encourage you to do your best, be kind to one another, seek harmony and
: balance with all natural life, enjoy what freedom you have left, and most
: of all, never, never give up.
:
: In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,
: Leonard Peltier
: Mitakuye Oyasin
:
: .......................................................................
:
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: A Memoir with Artifacts
: & Companion Website ~ www.HaveYouThought.com ~
:
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: "This book is a prayer, a hope, a shout, a flaming arrow shot into the
: dark night of our collective national dishonor. We are ALL & EACH of us
: complicit in Leonards imprisonment so long as we do not stand up, every
: one of us and all of us together, today, this very moment, and
: collectively denounce and oppose and contest in every way possible the
: overt travesty and tragedy of this innocent mans continuing
: imprisonment."
: from Author's Foreword to ~HAVE YOU THOUGHT of LEONARD PELTIER LATELY?~
: ........................................................................
: With the great good help of my editor & friend George Bowe Blitch, I have
: cobbled together this collection and recollection of private memories and
: public happenings, emails, letters, drawings, poems, news articles,
: photographs, illustrations, aphorisms, online postings & miscellaneous
: other digital and nondigital artifacts, including a free companion website
: to this volumewww.HaveYouThought.comthe assembled living pieces and
: patches of my own personal and public and agonizing seven-year struggle to
: save what remains of the life of one very extraordinary human being named
: Leonard PeltierUSP (United States Prisoner) #89637-132now serving his
: 28th year as a houseguest in Hell at the U.S. Federal Penitentiary at
: Leavenworth, KS for a crime he simply did not commit
: .........................................................................
:
: *^* HAVE YOU THOUGHT of LEONARD PELTIER LATELY? *^*
: A Memoir with Artifacts
: & Companion Website ~ www.HaveYouThought.com ~
:
: Check out Harvey Ardens new book & website
: on his years working on Leonards behalf:
:
: Please visit the companion website www.HaveYouThought.com
:
: For more info contact george@HaveYouThought.com
:
: We WILL get Leonard out!!
:
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