~^~Let your heart soar--and break--with Leonard Peltier~^~

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From the desk of  Harvey Arden

Author: WISDOMKEEPERS: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders
      DREAMKEEPERS: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia
      NOBLE RED MAN: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King
      TRAVELS IN A STONE CANOE: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers
      ~HAVE YOU THOUGHT of LEONARD PELTIER LATELY?~
Editor: PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE by Leonard Peltier
      WHITE BUFFALO TEACHINGS  by Chief Arvol Looking Horse
      VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER by Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon


HI--YOU ARE PERSONALLY INVITED TO LISTEN TO THE PELTIER/ARDEN CD at

http://cdbaby.com/harveyarden

ALSO PLEASE CHECK OUT: http://www.haveyouthought.com

and the brand new harveysplace.net  !!

BLESSINGS, /Harvey


My Life Is My Sun Dance

Prison Writings of LEONARD PELTIER

Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity.
But silence is impossible.
Silence screams.
Silence is a message,
Just as doing nothing is an act.

Let who you are ring out and resonate
in every word and every deed.
Yes, become who you are.
There's no sidestepping your own being
or your own responsibility.

What you do is who you are.
You are your own comeuppance.
You become your own message.

You are the message.


--Leonard Peltier


A Bio of Harvey Arden

Over the past few years I have given readings/lectures on the Dreamkeepers
and the Wisdomkeepers at Harvard, Columbia, CalTech, USC, the University of
South Dakota (Vermillion), Briarcliffe College (Sioux City, IA), etc etc etc
I've given readings from Leonard Peltier s PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY
SUN DANCE and Mathew King s book NOBLE RED MAN to audiences in schools,
churches, museums, private homes, coffee shops, public auditoriums and
theaters in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, New Orleans,
Washington DC, Cape Cod, Western Massachusetts, New Hampshire etc.and scores
of smaller towns. I've also given scores of readings at Borders and Barnes &
Noble (and many, many other) bookstores across the country; I've been
interviewed on NPR (national "Public Interest" show, twice), also on many
many other radio stations. I was for 23 years a staff writer at National
Geographic Magazine. A play of mine on Leonard Peltier, already performed at
USD, is in the early stages of a professional production. My books have been
translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, and
Japanese...with Greek and Swedish in the works.

Anyway, I'm willing to put my old body on the line anytime it's needed for
the Cause, but I can often be of more of use here at my basement-study PC,
since I plug into lots of places in the Indian and international indigenous
worlds, though I'm a white guy myself. Lot's of people know me and,
hopefully, trust me. You can check me out ad nauseum with a Google search on
my name. (someone told me a few weeks or so ago she found 22,000 entries on
me with a few simple searches) I still spend lots of time working for and
with Leonard Peltier. I ve visited Leonard half a dozen times at
Leavenworth. Also I have a few novels, plays, screenplays and other
nonfiction books that I'm trying to give birth to lest they be, alas,
stillborn.

Like Mat King used to say, "You're not too bad for a white guy, Harvey.
You're lucky. Tunkashila has a job for you to do and you're going to do it!"


Regarding why I, a white guy, am so involved in the indigenous world, I
subscribe to the philosophy expressed in this statement by Australian
Aboriginal Elder Lilla Watson:

"If you've come here to help me, you're wasting your time.
But if you've come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let
us work together."

Go to http://cdbaby.com/harveyarden  and hear the Peltier/Arden CD free!

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flagstone on Leonard Peltier's Path to Freedom!  Puh-leeze ask a few good
friends to do the same. It's really important right now to  keep LPDC
                         going and Leonard’s spirits up. YOU can help! We
WILL get him out!!

                      Please don't forget Leonard!
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