Even though this is not Veteran's Day but Thanksgiving the following post is appropriate to both "holidays"................PEACE........................Scott
| From: | harvey@harveysplace.net |
| Sent: | Wed 11/21/07 5:44 PM |
| To: | harveyarden@starpower.net |
Thanks, Chi--That's a spine-chilling list of the unquiet Indian dead.
Here's what Leonard Peltier has to say on the subject of our Indian dead...
/Harvey
NO DOUBT, MY NAME will soon be among the list of our Indian dead. At least
I will have good company--for no finer, kinder, braver, wiser, worthier men
and women have ever walked this Earth than those who have already died for
being Indian.
Our dead keep coming at us, a long, long line of dead, ever-growing
and never-ending. To list all their names would be impossible, for the
great, great majority of us have died unknown, unacknowledged. Yes, even
our dead have been stolen from us, uprooted from our memory just as the
bones of our honored ancestors have been dishonored by being dug up from
their graves and shipped to museums to be boxed and catalogued and hidden
away in file-drawers, denied that final request and right of every human
being: a decent burial in Mother Earth and proper ceremonies of remembrance
to light the way to the Afterworld.
Yes, the roll call of our Indian dead needs to be cried out, to be
shouted from every hilltop in order to shatter the terrible silence that
tries to erase the fact that we ever existed.
I would like to see a redstone wall like the blackstone wall of the
Vietnam War Memorial. Yes, right there on the Mall in Washington, D.C. And
on that redstone wall--pigmented with the living blood of our people (and I
would happily be the first to donate that blood)--would be the names of all
the Indians who ever died for being Indian. It would be hundreds of times
longer than the Vietnam Memorial, which commemorates the deaths of fewer
than 60,000 brave lost souls. The number of our brave lost souls reaches
into the many millions, and every one of them remains unquiet until this
day.
Yes, the voices of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, of Buddy Lamont and
Frank Clearwater, of Joe Stuntz and Dallas Thundershield, of Wesley Bad
Heart Bull and Raymond Yellow Thunder, of Bobby Garcia and Anna Mae
Aquash... those and so, so many others. Their stilled voices cry out at us
and demand to be heard.
*
It's strange.
Here I am,
locked in my own shadow for nearly a quarter of a century,
and yet I can reach my hand through stone and steel and razor-wire
and touch the heart of the world. Yes, even your heart, my enemy, my
friend.
Mitakuye Oyasin, my Lakota brethren say.
We are all related. We are One.
*
Sometimes.
sometimes in the shadowed night
I become spirit.
The walls, the bars, the gratings dissolve into light
and I unloose my soul
and fly through the inner darkness of my being.
I become transparent,
a bright shadow,
a bird of dreams singing from the tree of life.
http://www.amazon.com/Prison-Writings-Life-Sun-Dance/dp/0312263805/ref=sr_1_
2/002-2151140-2027237?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183932409&sr=1-2
http://www.leonardpeltier.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM5iNVIWuX0
http://cdbaby.com/harveyarden
-----Original Message-----
From: chioceansuns@peoplepc.com [mailto:chioceansuns@peoplepc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:50 AM
To: Harvey Arden
Subject: Veterans Day: Veterans of the resistance
Veterans Day: Veterans of the resistance
> On this day when the United States colonial government celebrates the
> history and maintenance of its violent military occupation of our
> indigenous nations, let us, too, remember the deceased veterans of our
> resistance:
>
> PO'PAY (Tewa, 1630?-1688?)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%27pay
>
> METACOMET [King Philip] (Wampanoag, 1639?-1676)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacomet
>
> NEOLIN [The Delaware Prophet] (Lenape, 1710?-1770+)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolin
>
> PONTIAC (Ottawa, 1720?-1769)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Pontiac
>
> SIMON GIRTY (Onodowaga, 1741-1818)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Girty
>
> WEYAPIERSENWAH [Blue Jacket] (Shawnee, 1743?-1810)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jacket
>
> SAGOYEWATHA [Red Jacket] (Onodowaga, 1756-1830)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Jacket
>
> MAKATAIMESHEKIAKIAK [Black Hawk] (Sauk, 1767-1838)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_%28chief%29
>
> TECUMSEH (Shawnee, 1768-1813)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh
>
> K'ALYAAN [Katlian] (Tlingit, 1770?-18??)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sitka
>
> TENSKWATAWA [The Shawnee Prophet] (Shawnee, 1775-1836)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenskwatawa
>
> DASODA-HAE [Mangas Coloradus] (Chiricahua Apache, 1793?-1863)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangas_Coloradas
>
> SATANK [Sitting Bear] (Kiowa, 1800?-1871)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satank
>
> WASECHUN-TASHUNKA [American Horse] (Oglala Lakota, 1801?-1876)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Horse
>
> OSCEOLA (Seminole, 1804-1838)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osceola
>
> COCHISE (Chiricahua Apache, 1815?-1874)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochise
>
> SATANTA [White Bear] (Kiowa, 1820-1878)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanta_%28White_Bear%29
>
> MAKHPIYA LUTA [Red Cloud] (Oglala Lakota, 1822-1909)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cloud
>
> BIDU-YA [Victorio] (Chiricahua Apache, 1825?-1880)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorio
>
> GOYATHLAY [Geronimo] (Chiricahua Apache, 1829-1909)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
>
> TATANKA IYOTANKA [Sitting Bull] (Hunkpapa Lakota, 1831?-1890)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull
>
> HINMUUTTU-YALATLAT [Joseph] (Nez Perce, 1840-1904)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Joseph
>
> LOZEN (Chiricahua Apache, 1840-1887?)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozen
>
> PIZI [Gall] (Hunkpapa Lakota, 1840-1895)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Gall
>
> THASUKA WITKO [Crazy Horse] (Oglala-Brule Lakota, 1840-1877)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_horse
>
> QUANAH PARKER (Comanche, 1845?-1911)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanah_Parker
>
> MATO WANARTAKA [Kicking Bear] (Miniconjou-Oglala Lakota, 1846-1904)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicking_Bear
>
> WOVOKA [Jack Wilson] (Paiute, 1856-1932)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wovoka
>
> And to the millions more Native American patriots whose names I have
> had to leave out: You are all in my prayers. Let true freedom ring...
>
> - - - - - - -
> TODD TAMANEND CLARK
> Minister Of Information
> Autonomous American Indian Movement
> The Monongahela River, Turtle Island
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