"Sign the online petition" -amnestyusa.org /////// Trump has nominated the governor of North Dakota for secretary of the interior, which seems appropriate.-Doug Burgum will be in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs which once ran the Indian boarding schools. Peltier, also from North Dakota, spent six years locked up and abused in these "schools".
In 1975 Peltier was arrested by the RCMP at the Small Boy camp near Edmonton Alberta, and then extradited to the US. There, he was found guilty of killing two FBI agents during a shootout at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. /////////// Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Dee Brown, 1970 "In 1890 the U S army massacred 250 Lakota people near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Nineteen soldier were awarded the medal of honour specifically for Wounded Knee." /////////// "We are not statistics. We are the people from whom you took this land by force and blood and lies" - prison writings by Leonard Peltier -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33605): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33605 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109589171/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
