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Title: Let us love not only our sameness


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  • Let us love not only our sameness
  • But our unsameness.
  • In our difference is our strength.
  • Let us be not for ourselves alone
  • But also for that Other
  • Who is our deepest Self.
  • Leonard Peltier

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After Custers death in the Battle of Little
Bighorn, Crazy Horse is arrested and killed.
Sitting Bull and his men flee to Canada for 4
years.
3
After his surrender in 1881, Sitting Bull tours
with Buffalo Bills Wild West Show in 1885.
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  • Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man
    controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die
    defending our rights.
  • Chief Sitting Bull

5
The message of Wovokas Ghost Dance spreads to
the Lakota Indians and brings hopes of a future
where the buffalo and their ancestors return to
Earth.
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  • "I went up to heaven and saw God and all the
    people who had died a long time ago. God told me
    to come back and tell my people they must be good
    and love one another, and not fight, or steal, or
    lie."
  • Wovoka

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  • Looking toward the sun, the dancers would do a
    shuffling, counter-clockwise side-step, chanting
    while they sang songs of resurrection. Some
    dances would continue for days until the
    participants died, falling to the ground,
    rolling around and experiencing visions of a new
    land of hope and freedom from white people which
    was promised by the messiah.
  • Eyewitness Account of the Ghost Dance

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The government becomes increasingly suspicious of
the Ghost Dance religion and arrests Chief
Sitting Bull on December 15, 1890.
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Gunfire rings out when the police arrive at
Sitting Bulls cabin and in the chaos, Sitting
Bull and his son are killed.
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1890
  • Wounded Knee Massacre

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The survivors of Sitting Bulls tribe join Big
Foots band. On December 28, 1890, they are
apprehended and brought to Wounded Knee Creek.
13
On December 29, 1890, shots ring out during the
collection of surrendered weapons.
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In the end, 250 Lakotas and 25 whites are killed.

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Mass graves were created 3 days later and men
were paid 2 per body they cleared.
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1968
  • American Indian Movement Begins

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  • There are no followers in AIM. We are all
    leaders. We are each an army of one, working for
    the survival of our people and of the Earth, our
    Mother.
  • Leonard Peltier

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Russell Means, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt
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1972
  • Trail of Broken Treaties

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Members of AIM travel to the BIA in Washington
D.C. to protest treaty violations by the
government.
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  • We need not give another recitation of past
    complaints nor engage in redundant dialogue of
    discontent...The government of the United States
    knows the reasons for our going to its capital
    city. Unfortunately, they don't know how to greet
    us.
  • Press Statement Released by AIM

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1973
  • Occupation of
  • Wounded Knee

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At Pine Ridge Reservation, life expectancy
declined
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while alcoholism, suicide rates, and
unemployment rates increased.
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  • "I will fight for my people. I will live for them
    and, if it is necessary to stop the terrible
    things that happen to Indians on the Pine Ridge
    Reservation, I am ready to die for them."
  • Pedro Bissonette

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Frustrated at the governments failure to address
their grievances,
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the Lakota Indians occupy the historical site of
Wounded Knee for 71 days in protest.
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  • Wounded Knee ended after the deaths of two of
    our AIM occupiersFrank Clearwater and Buddy
    Lamontby sniper bulletsWounded Knee II was
    over, though its repercussions continue to this
    day.
  • Leonard Peltier

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1975
  • Incident at Oglala

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  • Let us forgive the worst among us
  • Because the worst is in ourselves,
  • The worst lives in each of us,
  • Along with the best.
  • Leonard Peltier
  • Leavenworth Prison
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