Title: Let us love not only our sameness
1- 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
2After 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.
3After his surrender in 1881, Sitting Bull tours
with Buffalo Bills Wild West Show in 1885.
4- 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
5The 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.
6- "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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8- 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
9The government becomes increasingly suspicious of
the Ghost Dance religion and arrests Chief
Sitting Bull on December 15, 1890.
10Gunfire rings out when the police arrive at
Sitting Bulls cabin and in the chaos, Sitting
Bull and his son are killed.
111890
12The survivors of Sitting Bulls tribe join Big
Foots band. On December 28, 1890, they are
apprehended and brought to Wounded Knee Creek.
13On December 29, 1890, shots ring out during the
collection of surrendered weapons.
14In the end, 250 Lakotas and 25 whites are killed.
15Mass graves were created 3 days later and men
were paid 2 per body they cleared.
161968
- American Indian Movement Begins
17- 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
18Russell Means, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt
191972
20Members of AIM travel to the BIA in Washington
D.C. to protest treaty violations by the
government.
21- 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
221973
- Occupation of
- Wounded Knee
23At Pine Ridge Reservation, life expectancy
declined
24while alcoholism, suicide rates, and
unemployment rates increased.
25- "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
26Frustrated at the governments failure to address
their grievances,
27the Lakota Indians occupy the historical site of
Wounded Knee for 71 days in protest.
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29- 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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33- 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