“The judge in the Peltier case listened to vivid testimony from Pine Ridge residents explaining how a state of war exists between the heavily-militarized U.S. government forces and the Indian nation… Then he ruled there was nothing political about the alleged offences.”
“My love for my people and all people of struggle are as strong as when I made the decision to devote my life to the struggle. There is no power on Earth that can or will force me to abandon this love.”
“AIM is not an organization. AIM, as its name clearly says, is a movement. Within that movement organizations come and go. No one person or special group of people runs AIM. […] There are no followers in AIM. We are all leaders.”
“It was then I knew I was coming home to my people”
“When white society succeeds it’s called colonialism. When white society’s efforts to colonize people are met with resistance it’s called war. But when the colonized Indians of North America meet to stand and resist we are called criminals.”
“Anyone who witnessed the murders of Black leaders like Fred Hampton in [1969] under the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations knows the lengths to which they are willing to go to crush progressive movements.”
“Upon my arrest on Feb/6/76, some of the first groups of people who came to show solidarity, along with my own People, in recognition of my status as a Prisoner of War, were the anti-authoritarian groups of both Canada and the U.S.A.”
This violent state repression consisted of dozens of murders and assaults, including an assault on a non-Native legal defence team.
