[News] Longest Walk Talk Radio, live and uncensored

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Longest Walk Talk Radio, live and uncensored
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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, Miwok’s 
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 don’t really change anyone’s 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, “We’ll give you an apology but please don’t 
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? They’ve 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.

Listen live 10 am to 2 pm Pacific time, or to 150 
audios of interviews and music since Alcatraz:
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