“…some who do not agree with the armed position taken by the camp have nonetheless been providing them with food and other supplies.”
Category: Akwesasne Notes
“Asked if she [Agnes Lamont] supported the American Indian Movement even after the death of her son, she replied, ‘I’m with them all the way now.'”
“The death of Richard Oakes provides emphatic proof that there has been no ebb in the sickness and sea of violence which White America has maintained against Indian people throughout its history to sweep away the lives of our nameless and our renowned.”
“…the PUYALLUP TRIBAL COUNCIL, being unable to succeed through these other routes of action, HEREBY RESORTS TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND EXERCISES ITS SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF OWNERSHIP…”
“In return they received manufactured products, an exchange guaranteed to leave them at the bottom of the growing European capitalistic society.”
“It is, in reality, an attempt at a history of AIM and also of the U.S. intelligence effort against Native people.”
“There were many years of growing pains before the BIC was to be able to stand on its own, but without women like Anna Mae, it would never have been possible.”
“‘Brave Hearted Woman,’ a 90-minute documentary film on the death of Indian activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, touched the hearts of a good-sized crowd at SF State’s McKenna Theater Tuesday and raised disturbing questions about American law officials’ dealings with Indians.”
“I returned and found my people hurting also. Hurt by the same White government I was fighting for.”
“Who knows what kind of training will be permitted in our land once NATO gets its foot in the door?”
“Mad Bear was the most widely known native leader of the 1950s and early 60s. He could be found wherever there was a fight between native people and the ‘government’…”
“It is alarming that this Revolution, which de-emphasizes the human as a productive economic asset, is taking place at a time when there is extensive conflict around the world.”
“This is the greatest gift we gave to you, the concept of freedom. You did not have this. Now that you have taken it and built a constitution and country around it, you deny freedom to us.”
“The established media focused their attention on who they judged to be the leaders and organizers — that is, Native American males. Their cameras and tape recorders only grazed the faces of Martha Grass from Oklahoma or Ann Jock from Akwesasne or the many strong women who like Anna Mae Pictou breathed life into an idea.”
This violent state repression consisted of dozens of murders and assaults, including an assault on a non-Native legal defence team.
“Although there are fundamentalists within both groups, it would be unfair to state that either Marxists or Native Peoples’ movements are ideologically static. Both are capable of responding to changing realities and each appears able to incorporate the thoughts of the other to some degree.”
“All things of the world are real, material things. The Creation is a true, material phenomenon, and the Creation manifests itself to us through reality. The spiritual universe, then, is manifest to Man as the Creation, the Creation which supports life.”
