[News] Longest Walk Talk Radio, live and uncensored
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Longest Walk Talk Radio, live and uncensored
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2008/3/17/9238/45078
By
<http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2008/3/17/9238//user/uid:331>Brenda
Norrell,
Posted on Mon Mar 17th, 2008 at 09:02:38 AM EST
MONTROSE, Colo. Walking through the snow, the
Longest Walk Northern Route arrived at the Ute
Indian Museum on Sunday, March 16, after crossing
on foot the states of California, Nevada and
Utah. Walking with sacred staffs, American Indian
walkers and their allies are carrying the message
to protect sacred Mother Earth.
Jimbo Simmons, northern route coordinator, said
the walk is a prayer and the snow and cold
intensifies the prayer. I consider it an honor
to walk through the snow and camp in the cold for
Mother Earth, Simmons said after Long Walkers
walked through the snow in central Utah.
In Salt Lake City, the Longest Walk was honored
with a powwow for the walkers. At Richfield
Indian Residential School, walkers inspired
students with their message, encouraging Native
students to take pride in their heritage and honor their ancestors.
Along the way, the walkers received warm
clothing, hot meals and stay places from
communities, including Rumsey Rancheria, Miwoks
Shingle Springs and Pollock Pines in California.
In Nevada, hospitality came from South Lake
Tahoe, Carson City, Fallon Paiute Shoshone Indian
Nation and the Home School of Natural Order and Border Inn in Baker, Nevada.
In Utah, walkers were greeted in Salina by
Navajo, Paiute and Hopi, before gathering with
students at the Richfield Indian Residential
School. In Salt Lake City at the Indian Walk In
Center, supplies and meals poured in, culminating
in a powwow and community potluck. In Fruita,
Colorado, the Grand Valley Peace and Justice
provided meals, while walkers camped along the Colorado River.
While the Longest Walk continued on Route 50
through Utah into Colorado, the Longest Walk Talk
Radio on the mobile bus of Earthcycles
www.earthcycles.net/ interviewed Native people
across the country about the destruction of the
Earth and the oppression they live under.
Louise Benally, Navajo from Big Mountain on the
Navajo Nation, described the Navajos Long Walk
to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico, where many died
of starvation or were murdered by the Calvary.
Now, Navajos live with the destruction of coal
mining and power plants in the continuation of genocide.
Benally said her grandfather returned to their
homeland after the Long Walk in 1860s. The Navajo
Nation government was created to sign energy
leases. "We have been victimized by that,
Benally said during a phone call with the live Earthcycles broadcast.
In her home community, the "land swindle" was
created by the politicians and corporations. The
result was the relocation of more than 10,000
Navajos and destruction of sacred Mother Earth.
In an earlier censored interview, Benally said
the Long Walk and war in Iraq are both US
sponsored terror. The U.S. military first
murders your people and destroys your way of life
while stealing your culture, then forces you to
learn their evil ways of lying and cheating.
On the Longest Walk Talk Radio, Bill Means,
cofounder of the International Indian Treaty
Council, spoke on the so-called apology inserted
into the Senate version of the Indian Health Care
Bill, section 301, which passed on Feb. 26. The
bill includes an apology for the abrogation of
treaties and other atrocities inflicted on
American Indians, including the massacres of
Wounded Knee in South Dakota and Sand Creek in Colorado.
Means, Lakota, said there is no need for white washing the past.
Apologies dont really change anyones life or
the conditions in which they live, Means said on
the Earthcycles broadcast. Further, Means pointed
out the disclaimer on the so-called apology bill.
The US apology disclaimer states, Nothing in
this section(1) authorizes or supports any claim
against the United States; or (2) serves as a
settlement of any claim against the United States.
Means, paraphrasing the apology and disclaimer,
said, Well give you an apology but please dont
use it against us. What is an apology if you put a disclaimer at the end.
On the Longest Walk Northern Route, coordinator
Jimbo Simmons said the US mounted a similar
effort 30 years ago during the original Longest
Walk, when the US sent American Indians out to
tell walkers they did not need to continue their
walk because the anti-Indian legislation would be halted.
Speaking of the current apology, Simmons said,
"It is meant to diffuse our efforts.Simmons said
if the United States is sincere about issuing an
apology to American Indians, it should begin with
the descendants of the original treaty signers
and include the peoples of the world whose
relatives have been murdered and massacred by the United States.
Margo Tamez described fighting Homeland Security,
as the United States attempts to seize the
private three acres of her mother, Elouise Tamez,
near Brownsville, Texas, to build the US/Mexico
border wall. On the Earthcycles broadcast, Tamez
spoke on the current effort by Homeland Security
to seize private lands by way of eminent domain
to build the border wall and the ongoing protest
and court fight by Lipan Apache, Jumano Apache and other residents.
Tamez said when they began to fight Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, they were
told it was hopeless and that there was no hope
of winning a fight with Homeland Security. Tamez
response: Well, we will just have to fight harder.
What have we got to lose? Theyve pushed us all
the way to the river. Remembering 18-year-old
Esequiel Hernandez who was shot and killed by the
US Marines in Redford, Texas, Tamez said the
people of South Texas are treated as terrorists
by the US military and Homeland Security.
My mother is already considered an enemy of the
state because she is challenging Chertoff and Bush, Tamez said.
On the Longest Walk, Dell Steve, Fallon Paiute,
sent a message to Washington DC to return
American Indian ancestors remains for proper
burial. Dell said the remains of one of the
Paiutes ancestors, Spirit Cave Man, dating back
9,000 to 10,000 years, should be returned. Wesley
Dick, Paiute, shared traditional buckskin making
with walkers, and called for a return of Paiute hunting and gathering rights.
In Western Shoshone territory, Carrie Dann was
honored with traditional songs in Eureka, Nevada.
Dann, whose horses were seized in roundups by the
BLM and later starved to death, spoke out against
the gold mining now coring out the mountains on
Western Shoshone territory, including sacred Mount Tenabo.
In Austin, Nevada, Western Shoshone spiritual
person Johnny Bobb assisted with ceremonies and
his wife, Bonnie Bobb described the secretive
terror resulting from the nuclear industry, and
the resulting cancer and diseases, and the
destruction of the Western Shoshones food
source, the pinion pine. In Ely Indian Colony,
Western Shoshone built a float and marched
through the town of Ely with the Longest Walk. A
large feast welcomed the Longest Walkers.
The Longest Walk proceeds to the high Rockies in
mid-March. The Ute Indian Museum and Ute
community members host the Longest Walk in
Montrose, Colorado March 16 18. A special
memorial is planned for April 5 at Sand Creek in
Colorado, where Cheyenne and Arapahoe women and children were massacred.
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