{"id":7499,"date":"2022-11-05T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisp.lautre.net\/wpblog\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2022-11-05T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T18:08:07","slug":"csia-nitassinan-42nd-day-of-solidarity-kathy-peltier-jean-roach-lona-knight-about-leonard-peltier-wounded-knee-standing-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisp.lautre.net\/wpblog\/?p=7499","title":{"rendered":"CSIA-Nitassinan 42nd Day of Solidarity: Kathy Peltier, Jean Roach, Lona Knight, about Leonard Peltier, Wounded Knee, Standing Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Day of Solidarity, October 16, 2022
\nTraduction Christine Prat, CSIA-Nitassinan
\nEn fran\u00e7ais<\/a>
\nAlso published on Censored News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

KATHY PELTIER, ABOUT LEONARD PELTIER<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI just introduced myself in my language. My name is Kathy Peltier, I am enrolled member of the Navajo Tribe, I am also Dakota and Anishinaabe. I am the youngest daughter of Leonard Peltier. I was two-years-old at Fargo, North Dakota, at the trial, when I got to see my dad. I don\u2019t remember any of that but I do know that we have been keeping struggling, as his kids we\u2019ve been struggling all our lives, trying to get a release for our dad. We, our generation, we need to let people know who he is, who is Leonard Peltier. You have to go to https:\/\/whoisleonardpeltier.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cAt the moment, we are doing a Long Walk from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Washington D.C., November 11. It\u2019s a Walk to Justice for Leonard Peltier, or Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice. So, the struggle has been started and we are still trying to meet senators of the US Congress, even trying to meet with President Biden. So, if you can go to our website, you can just follow them, or donate if you could, for the walkers. And I\u2019ll be joining on October 28, in Pittsburg. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

JEAN ROACH, LAKOTA MINICONJOU, ABOUT WOUNDED KNEE \u2013 1890 AND 1973 \u2013 LEONARD PELTIER, STANDING ROCK<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI am Jean Roach, from the Lakota Miniconjou Tribe, and I came to talk to you about Leonard Peltier. What happens to Leonard Peltier is an example of what has been happening to our Indigenous Nations for generations. It started way back at first contact, when the non-Natives came over and decided to take our lands because we were not Christians.
\n\u201cOne of the things they do use against us is stereotypes. And a long time ago, in the 1800s, they used, not only the Doctrine of Discovery, but the stereotypes. When they massacred our people at Wounded Knee, they presented them in the media as less than human. One of the statements made by the Cavalry was that the reason for killing innocent women and children and elders, and babies \u2013 they were asked specifically \u2018why did you murder babies or massacred\u2019, and their answer was that \u2018nits make lice\u2019. So, they stereotyped us in the media as disposable. Our people were attacked because we were in prayer, and we were praying the Ghost Dance and dancing. Praying for the buffalo and all the good things like before the non-Natives came.
\n\u201cWhen the American Indian Movement took over Wounded Knee, they used the same tactics because it was a revival of the genocide against our people where our ceremonies were all banned. Every time we pray, our people are attacked and it\u2019s been shown all the time through the massacres. And it was the same with Wounded Knee, when the AIM was labelled as militant and guerillas, all kind of names.
\n\u201cThe American government also used a program called COINTELPRO that was used against AIM and which targeted members or disposed of them.
\n\u201c1975 would be called the reign of terror, on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Anybody that was related or connected to the American Indian Movement were targets of violence. When Peltier was on Oglala, he was asked by the elders and the community to come there for protection. Anybody that prayed in our Lakota way were targets. So, when the FBI came that day, they came in unmarked cars and not wearing uniforms, and we never knew who they were.
\n\u201cLeonard Peltier\u2019s co-defendants were charged with murder and went to court where they were acquitted on basis of self-defense. The only person who got charges was Leonard, and he was in Canada. United States went up there and broke international law to bring him back to the United States. And it\u2019s part of a bigger plan, that colonization and genocides on our people. And a lot of it will lead to men going to prison. Or children being taken. And we all know about the catholic church and the many graves that were found in Canada.
\n\u201cLeonard Peltier had no choice, he was a scapegoat immediately, when the United States government made sure that he went to prison. It didn\u2019t matter what the truth was.
\n\u201cIndigenous people are being attacked because of our beliefs systems, which protect our Mother Earth. So, when Standing Rock happened, many people came to help up to North Dakota and they found out what it felt to be on the front line and being attacked while on prayer.
\n\u201cThe COINTELPRO program exists till today and they used it on the Standing Rock water protectors, through the Black Water security company.
\n\u201cLeonard Peltier was also a boarding school victim. It\u2019s also part of the way Indigenous families have been attacked, and how we are trying to restore our roles. We feel that the reason the United States government don\u2019t want to release Leonard Peltier, after 47 years, is because they don\u2019t want to honor Indigenous people because of our beliefs system which is opposite to the way they want to rape our Mother Earth.
\n\u201cLona here is a survivor of the boarding schools so I\u2019ll let her tell her story.\u201d<\/p>\n

LONA KNIGHT, LAKOTA MINICONJOU, ABOUT STANDING ROCK<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI would like to say something about Standing Rock. So many people came, so many nations, to support, and found out how hard it is to be on the frontline and take the punches that the police came to give. Our enemy comes down the same way every time. It was Wounded Knee, in 1890, when they took away everyone\u2019s weapon and they took away awls that women use to make their moccasins, they took everything that could be a weapon. And then they brought their machine gun and shot the Lakota people. The military that were there, I think that were 8 congressional medals of honor given, at that time. And, there is a project that we want, we want those medals to be rescinded and taken away from those people, because it was outright murder. At the time, the circle was broken, many of our wisdom keepers with knowledge of ceremony and songs went away, that day. And through the boarding schools and colonization, our people were forbidden to do our ceremonies for hundred years.
\n\u201cSo, through many people\u2019s dreams, our songs come back and ceremonies come back to us.
\n\u201cI was living in Hawaii, at the time of Standing Rock, and every morning I woke up really early, I got on Facebook and Myron Dewey \u2013 \u2018Rest in Peace, Brother \u2013 was there with his drones in the camp, and we could see what happened. In the camp, every morning he would do this with prayers and songs. It was very powerful for me to see it in that way and to be connected to it \u2013 a lot of my brothers and sisters were there, and I felt so connected to them.
\n\u201cIt really hurt me when I saw the police drag people out of the purification ceremony. I have seen them dragged out. I have seen them on the videos.
\n\u201cSo, I know the movement is strong, and I know it\u2019s carrying on, people are there, there are still frontlines. But a lot of our people are suffering from PTSD.
\n\u201cBecause of time constraints, I am going to pass the mike. Thank you for hearing me, I love you all, stand strong, and I pray that Leonard Peltier will be released soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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