[lbo-talk] Gustafson Lake, Terrorism and Indigenous Voice

[peacenow at theofficenet.com]

Interesting how the CBC can interview Indians who are veterans of the Gustafson 
Lake standoff between 24 Indians and over 400 Royal Canadian Mounted Police 10 
years ago and still portray them inaccurately.  As terrorists!!!  How typical.  
Called terrorists by the Canadian government, these Indian people were 
attempting to protect a Sundance site used by the defenders as a spiritual 
center for keeping their strength in the ongoing battle to maintain bits of land 
and life here and there.   A cattle owner wanted the land back for his beef.  
The history of the people and those coming together from different Indigenous 
nations to unify in maintaining it's customary use is so glibly shrugged off.  
Why can't the true stories ever be told?  No reporter, without a frame of 
reference, will serve the truth in such situations.  As the horror of widespread 
abuse of over 80,000 Indigenous veterans of residental schools unfolds, the tiny 
portal of opportunity for the scope of Indigenous subjugation to be heard 
challenges any of us possessing conscience.....

The man who became the spokesperson, Splits the Sky, was someone i met in l990 
at an event addressing the criminalization of marijuana in Washington D.C.  He 
told me a little of his life as a 19 year old during the Attica uprising.  It 
was to be a catalyst for him as a voice for Indigenous struggle that hallmarked 
the 60's.  

I saw him in the video made about Gustafason Lake, but was a bit disturbed by 
the rather militia-like perspective of the elder named Wolverine.  Made me 
wonder about the inroads made by the right wingy dingies into Indigenous 
communities.  Sad commentary on the failure of leftists to align deeply with 
Indigenous peoples. 

Thanksgiving????  MY FUCKING WHITE ASS!!!!

In peaceful struggle, swaneagle
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