Email from Paul DeMain:
They will be bringing in KaMook Nichols, Bernie Lafferty and others that Peltier bragged to about shooting the [FBI] agents, too, won’t they?
How about Dino Butler who said this, “The reason Mr. X lie was created was to try to make it look like somebody else had shot the agents.”
How about bringing in Annie Mae Aquash to testify about how Peltier had bragged to her about shooting FBI agent Ron Williams at close range.
Oh, that’s right, other members of the AIM security of which Peltier and David Hill (Mr. X) over saw, had her executed after taking her to Bill Means’ house on and around Dec. 11, 1975 and consulting with those involved with the murder of Black Civil Rights worker Perry Ray Robinson Jr. (whose wife is from Sparta, Wisconsin) in Wounded Knee 1973 about what to do. He is still buried near Wounded Knee Creek. Maybe these AIM guys can talk about repatriating him.
Hmmm…… Marj [Stevens], whose fingerprints were found in the Marlo Brando motor home after the fire-fights knows the truth. Herb [Powless], who is featured on the front page of the Rapid City Journal on Dec. 12th, 1975 upon his acquital might know the truth, Frank Blackhorse said he was consulted about the ‘security’ problem.
Well then, Oneida should be a good place to have a tribunal about those in our community who support those who kill, murder and execute others, even Native women, mothers at that.
Good Luck.
Paul DeMain
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Native American leaders to hold Leonard Peltier Tribunal Oct. 2-4
Minneapolis, MN – On Oct. 2 through Oct. 4, the U.S. government will be put on trial for “malfeasance in Indian Country,” according to a statement released at a press conference Sept. 4. Witnesses are being subpoenaed to appear in Oneida, Wisconsin for the three-day tribunal entitled “The Leonard Peltier International Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous Human Rights.”
After three days of testimony, a panel of judges will rule on the conduct of the U.S. around the case of Leonard Peltier in particular and about the oppression meted out by the government to Native peoples in general. Organizers are exploring, bringing the findings of the tribunal to the World Court in the Netherlands after the tribunal.
“The Leonard Peltier International Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous Human Rights will tell our stories with a focus on the last 40 years,” said Dorothy Ninham – a former Oneida Nation judge and founder and director of Wind Chases the Sun.
Leaders from many Native struggles will be there to witness about “fishing rights, the sterilization of Indigenous women, extreme poverty, theft of tribes’ natural resources, environmental issues and their impact on Indian reservations, the horrific rate of suicides among Native children, and the wrongful conviction of Leonard Peltier (specifically the events that led up to the June 26, 1975, incident at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and the effects on survivors of this period),” the organizers state.
It has been nearly 40 years since the uprising at Pine Ridge in South Dakota. Leonard Peltier, a leading member of the American Indian Movement, was unjustly convicted of killing two FBI agents in a battle that took place there. Amnesty International and many international figures have denounced Peltier’s two life sentences as a gross miscarriage of justice.
“This isn’t just about one day in Pine Ridge. It’s a culmination of everything that has been done to that led up the Indian people saying we won’t take it anymore,” said Ninham.
“We will show overall government policies that affected our people and the American Indian Movement,” said Clyde Bellecourt, of the American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council. Other speakers at the Sept. 4 press conference included Bill Means of AIM and Gina Buentostro of Wind Chases the Sun.
The Leonard Peltier International Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous Human Rights will take place Oct. 2 – 4, at the Radisson Hotel and Conference center near Green Bay, Wisconsin. The public is encouraged to attend to learn about the last 40 years of the fight backs in Indian Country against U.S. government repression.
