And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 23:24:09 +0200 >From: tcondori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: WGIP statement of Buckshot Knight > >WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS 17th SESSION. > >Madame Chairperson, >I am Buckshot Knight from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. We Lakota call >her Sacred Turtle Island. I am part of this land, she is my mother. > >I am speaking of land issues. In April 1998 I spoke out here at the >United Nations Commission on Human Rights (54th Session). I spoke up >about our treaties with the United States of America. > >I have filed through a lawyer to protect my rights, but the lawyer said: >"After all he could do nothing, because it was government approved". > >I have letters from the leaders of my country expressing sorrow, but >they say that they can do nothing to save my home or my future, nor >reimburse me for the thirty years I have paid to have my ranch and my >home. > >I plead to you to listen to the Lakota land & treaty issues. Justice and >human rights belong to all humans. > >Mitakuye Oyasin - All my relatives. >Wolakota - Peace and Love > >Buckshot (Monte) Knight >Minnconjou Lakota >Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe >Eagle Butte >South Dakota, Sacred Turtle Island > >The statement from April 1998 is published on the Internet at >http://www.puebloindio.org/ONU_info/ONU_Com98_Buckshot.htm > Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
