Free Leonard Peltier - A message from Leonard Peltier
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Go to link to read news and most recent letter from American Indian Imprisoned Leader Leonard Peltier who reminds us,
"Our people have told them from the very beginning about the consequences of mistreatment of individuals and mistreatment of Mother Earth.
There are history books that quote our chief headmen and medicine people cautioning
them about there destruction of the earth and nature.
We know the first concentration camps America ever had held Indian prisoners.
The first biological warfare was used on our people with poisonous blankets.
The first atomic bomb dropped was dropped on Indian land in Nevada.
Today there are abandoned uranium quarries in
Navajo country that cause genetic defects on a lot of their people.
When you look into the past, America has used us Indians as their social experiment.
They tried to destroy us with boarding schools,
relocation, and even the first slavery practice was with American people."
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From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
"Our people have told them from the very beginning about the consequences of mistreatment of individuals and mistreatment of Mother Earth.
There are history books that quote our chief headmen and medicine people cautioning
them about there destruction of the earth and nature.
We know the first concentration camps America ever had held Indian prisoners.
The first biological warfare was used on our people with poisonous blankets.
The first atomic bomb dropped was dropped on Indian land in Nevada.
Today there are abandoned uranium quarries in
Navajo country that cause genetic defects on a lot of their people.
When you look into the past, America has used us Indians as their social experiment.
They tried to destroy us with boarding schools,
relocation, and even the first slavery practice was with American people."
________________
From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
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Leonard Peltier has been imprisoned unjustly by the U.S. Government for 32 years.
Go to http://www.leonardpeltier.net/newsroom.htm -
Photo of Leonard Peltier's extradition from Canada to the U.S. for trial.
The Canadian officials who arrested Peltier in B.C. were asked at his extradition trial what was the "probable cause" they relied upon to arrest Peltier and his companion in Canada.
They replied that it was a Sunday, and there was a bank within a few blocks and there were these two Natives using a phone booth, so they arrested them.
An example of how First Nation people had no civil rights in Canada until recent decades. -
Photo above was uploaded to flickr.com by Sheila Steele, who wrote:
"In 1975 FBI officers were shot at Pine Ridge, North Dakota, one of the most impoverished reservations in the U.S. Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement leader knew that the cops were looking for him and fled to Canada. He was extradited on an illegal warrant, tried in Fargo and convicted. His conviction was based entirely on the testimony coerced from Myrtle Poor Bear.
In 1992, Michael Apted made a documentary called Incident at Oglala. When I saw the film, I was certain that now that the true story was out there, Peltier would soon be free.
2006: Leonard Peltier is still imprisoned and there are thousands of other leaders of minority groups also behind bars.
Whole generations have now grown up not even knowing who Leonard Peltier is!
The photos of this set are grabs from the movie, which is narrated by Robert Redford."
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