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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Native
Americans and Columbus</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;">Sunday,
October
13, 4-6PM, 518 Valencia ST, San Francisco with Green Arcade
Books providing books for sale. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;">Join author Roxanne
Dunbar Ortiz and Bill Means to celebrate the new edition of the 1977
classic book</span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;">,</span><i><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;">The Great Sioux Nation</span></i><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;"><i>:
Sitting
in Judgment on America. </i>It's the weekend of the shameful
official U.S. endorsement of genocide, Columbus Day, a good time hear
Indigenous voices.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;">The Great Sioux Nation</span></i><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;"> is the story of the
Sioux’s fight to regain their land and sovereignty, highlighting the
events of 1973–74, including the siege of Wounded Knee 40 years ago
this year. It features pieces by some of the most prominent scholars
and Indian activists of the twentieth century, including Vine Deloria
Jr., Simon Ortiz, Dennis Banks, Russell Means, and Henry Crow Dog. It
also features primary documents and firsthand accounts of the
activists’ work and of the trial. </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;">“If the moral issues
raised by the Sioux people in the federal courtroom that cold month of
December 1974 spark a recognition among the readers of a common destiny
of humanity over and above the rules and regulations, the codes and
statutes, and the power of the establishment to enforce its will, then
the sacrifice of the Sioux people will not have been in vain.”—Vine
Deloria Jr.</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;">"The
oral
history in this book represents some of the
last documentation from the Lakota point of view, on the 1868 Fort
Laramie Treaty in these modern times. Almost all of the individuals
quoted in the book have passed on and their oral history was only one
generation removed from the actual Treaty signers. The entire hearing
in front of Judge Urbom was a turning point in US Law, as this was one
of the few times in history where Lakota interpreters were used in US
Federal Court to express the meaning of the Fort Laramie
Treaty from Lakota Peoples to the Judge and the Federal Court. Another
highlight in this historic book was turning the words of the late Henry
Crow Dog into poetry which made his wisdom understandable to future
researchers, Indian and non Indian."</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;"> -Bill
Means,
Lakota, co-founder, International Indian Treaty Council</span><span
style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;">All
royalties
from sales of the book go directly to Defenders of the Black
Hills, for the work led by Charmaine White Face.</span></p>
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