"SD tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site" by Kristi Eaton | Associated Press, May 02, 2013
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — On Dec. 29, 1890, that 300 Native American men, women, and children were killed by the Seventh Cavalry in the final battle of the American Indian Wars....
“Selling this massacre site and using the victims as a selling pitch is, for lack of a better word, it’s grotesque,” said Nathan Blindman, 56, whose grandfather was 10 when he survived the massacre. “To use the murdered children, the murdered teenagers, the unborn, women screaming and running for their lives, using that as a selling pitch ... that has got to be the most barbaric thing ever to use as a selling pitch.”
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Besides its proximity to the burial grounds, the land includes the site of a trading post burned down during the 1973 Wounded Knee uprising, in which hundreds of protesters occupied the town built at the massacre site. The 71-day standoff — which left two tribe members dead and a US agent seriously wounded — is credited with raising awareness about Native American struggles and with giving rise to a wider movement....
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FLASHBACK:
The FBI's Political Prisoner
"American Indian activist denied parole" by ASSOCIATED PRESS | August 22, 2009
BISMARCK, N.D. - American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, imprisoned since 1977 for the deaths of two FBI agents, has been denied parole after authorities decided that releasing him would diminish the seriousness of his crime, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.
A crime he DID NOT COMMIT!
Peltier, who asserts that the FBI framed him, will not be eligible for parole again until July 2024, when he will be 79 years old. He is serving two life sentences for the execution-style deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a June 26, 1975, standoff on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was convicted in Fargo, N.D., in 1977. He has unsuccessfully appealed his conviction numerous times and was denied parole in 1993.
“Leonard Peltier is an unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer who executed FBI special agents Williams and Coler, and in doing that he tore them from their families and from their communities forever,’’ US Attorney Drew Wrigley said. “Leonard Peltier is exactly where he belongs.’’
Angry defense lawyer Eric Seitz declined to comment yesterday, saying the Parole Commission had not had the “courtesy’’ to inform him of the decision. “We’ve heard nothing,’’ he said. Seitz said earlier that the 64-year-old Peltier is in poor health, with diabetes, high blood pressure, a jaw problem, and a urinary system ailment.
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Related:
"All three witnesses against Peltier have recanted and claimed that the FBI coerced their testimony. Peltier is the victim of an FBI frame-up, which explains the intensity of the FBI's interest in keeping him locked up as a potential public embarrassment. The historical fact is that the FBI does indeed frame innocent people and send them to jail." -- What Really Happened
In light of the boston Marathon Bombings I thought you should know that, yes, the FBI frames people!
