NATIVE_NEWS: Last Meeting Before Raid of Minnehaha Spiritual Camp

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We are about to see the same repression in
Minneapolis that we saw last week in Seattle--
unless we help stop it.........

PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS WIDELY!

Immediately e-mail Governor Jesse Ventura:
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and/or call:
(651) 296-3391 [Voice]
(651) 296-2089 [Fax]

Thanks,
Zoltan Grossman
Midwest Treaty Network
http://www.treatyland.com

For background on the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community's
stance against the expansion of Highway 55 into Minnehaha Park:
http://www.alphacdc.com/treaty/content.html#DAKOTA/LAKOTA

power4u wrote:
 > 
 > Raid Alert*Action Alert*Raid Alert*Action Alert*
 > Raid Alert*Action Alert*Raid Alert
 > 
 > STATE TROOPERS ASK TO MEET WITH JIM ANDERSON AT MINNEHAHA SPIRITUAL CAMP
 > THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 1999.
 > 
 > On the day before our 16-month anniversary, Captain Kitridge of the
 > Minnesota Highway Patrol, has requested his second and last meeting
 > with Jim Anderson and members of the American Indian Movement before
 > they raid the Minnehaha Spiritual Encampment and cut down the Four
 > Sacred Oaks.
 > 
 > Last week, members of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community met
 > with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDoT) to see if
 > they could move their planned reroute of Highway 55, over about 100
 > feet to save the Four Sacred Oaks, a sacred site to Native Americans.
 > This was an offer that MnDoT had made to the Mendota last winter
 > during court ordered mediation.  MnDoT said that they "cannot recall"
 > ever having made such an offer, and plan to proceed and desecrate
 > this place of ceremony and prayer.
 > 
 > Kitridge has said that he has "paperwork" to deliver to Jim Anderson,
 > and we assume that this may be the official trespass notices to
 > proceed the raid.  We anticipate that we will be raided this weekend
 > or early next week.  Kitridge has been quoted in the Star and Tribune
 > Newspaper as saying that we would be removed before the new year.
 > 
 > We stand with the truth, with the graves of the ancestors of the
 > Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community, with the majesty and beauty of
 > the Four Sacred Oaks, with the giver of life, the sacred spring that
 > has flowed pure for 9,000 years.  We stand with the sacredness of all
 > life, and the original instructions  of the Creator.  We will not
 > leave this place, for the trees cannot run, nor can the four leggeds
 > or two leggeds who call this place home.  We will circle the Oaks
 > planted in the Four Directions with our bodies, and we will pray,
 > pray for all life, pray for our opponents who come to carry out the
 > legacy of 507 years of cultural genocide, to wipe out the memory of
 > this sacred place of ceremony and peace, to wipe out the memory of
 > our ancestors.
 > 
 > If you can come to stand with us, please come now.  If you cannot,
 > please remember us in your prayers and ceremonies.  Pidamaya.
 > 
 > We know that they can never kill the spirit, that we will carry the
 > memory of this place with us in our hearts, and carry the seeds of
 > this truth with us as long as we live.  We will pass on this truth to
 > our children and our children's children, and in this way, they have
 > not won.  And some day, when the last tree has fallen, and the air is
 > too sick to breathe, and all of our water is poisoned in the name of
 > convenience,  they will remember a small, beautiful circle of people,
 > from the four directions who came together to try and tell them the
 > truth, that we need these trees to breathe, and this water to live,
 > and they will wish, deep in their hearts, that they had listened.
 > 
 > for the future generations,
 > the Minnehaha Spiritual Encampment
 > Jim Anderson (612) 910-0730
 > Camp Cell Phone (651) 398-5249
 > 
 > live simply
 > linda