“It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America.” FeelsAmericaDifficultLossEmotionExtremesTyrannyIndianFamily And FriendsAcquaintanceStood UpUnlawfulUntimely Death Author:Leonard Peltier
“In the past, when we were initially organizing to bring about changes, our elders had little or no political experience. However, today, most of those American Indian Movement organ-izers are the elders. They are quite adept at bringing attention to the public about any attacks upon our people.” PeopleLittlesTodayPastPoliticalAttentionMovementIndianOrgansEldersAmerican IndianAdeptAmerican Indian Movement Author:Leonard Peltier
“I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American Indian Movement as some adverse entity, as opposed to it being a manifestation of the desperations of a whole race of people.” PeopleWholeEffortRaceMovementIndianManifestationEntityDesperationAmerican IndianAdverseDiscreditAmerican Indian Movement Author:Leonard Peltier
“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.” PeopleMenFirstsFactsEarthUsedWhiteWrittenFeetMankindBehaviorConsequenceConcernFunctionEnvironmentalExtremesContactBoatIndianWhite ManEldersFirst Contact Author:Leonard Peltier
“In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.” IfsStillsIndianIllegalUnfortunateProbation Author:Leonard Peltier
