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Post by pellethie on Oct 23, 2012 2:40:27 GMT -6
I have just learn that Oglala Lakota activist Russell Means has passed. Sad news indeed.
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Post by jctenpenny on Oct 24, 2012 7:36:21 GMT -6
Wow. That sucks.
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Post by jctenpenny on Oct 24, 2012 8:21:24 GMT -6
Hopefully Leonard Peltier won't die in prison but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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Post by jctenpenny on Oct 24, 2012 10:29:33 GMT -6
No, I haven't! Didn't even know he had one!
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Post by pellethie on Oct 24, 2012 19:09:56 GMT -6
Russell Means Oglala Lakota and Indian activist died early Monday, October 22, 2012 at his Porcupine South Dakota home.
Means is best remembered as one of the American Indian Movement(AIM) leaders who seized the Mayflower II on Thanksgiving Day 1970, the occupation of Mount Rushmore in 1972 along with the takeover of Washington DC’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1973 He and Objibwe Dennis Banks along with a few hundred Indians were responsible for the armed takeover and occupation of Wounded Knee in response to Oglala president Dick Wilson’s heavy handed rule, misappropriation of tribal annuities and mistreatment of fellow tribal members. Surrounded by FBI agents and state police Banks, Means and other AIM members held out for over two months bringing national attention to the conditions at Pine Ridge Reservation.
Up until his death Russell Means has been an advocate for Indian rights as well as all indigenous people even working with the United Nations establishing offices for the International Indian Treaty Council.
In 2007 Means and other Indian activist leaders proclaimed that thousands of square miles in what is now Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota, the Republic of Lakotah and declared it as a sovereign nation no longer beholden to the tribal governments set in place by the United States government.
Russell Means heart was with the people and he will be missed by many. May he journey well.
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Post by TsalagiPhoenix on Oct 25, 2012 12:08:45 GMT -6
It's sad to hear that he passed.
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Post by Lone4eagle on Oct 28, 2012 15:23:28 GMT -6
I have just learn that Oglala Lakota activist Russell Means has passed. Sad news indeed. Yes, I know that he will be missed very much by NAs!
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