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I DECIDED AT A TIME IN MY LIFE THAT I NEEDED TO KNOW WHO I WAS AND WHERE I CAME FROM, ISN'T IT CRAZY HOW THE TRUTH IS BLIND TO SO MANY PEOPLE? THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO LEARN WITH ME...........TRUE.......Bob Marley- Buffalo Soldier

Add to My Profile | More Videos"These white people think this country belongs to them - they don't realize that they are only in charge right now because there's more of them than there are of us. The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedly-ass pilgrims that came over here in the 1500s. And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass Indians to do the same, and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass Indians." ...Anna Mae Pictou
The European colonization of the Americas decimated the populations and cultures of the Natives. During the 15th through 19th centuries, their populations were ravaged by displacement, disease, enslavement, and warfare against European explorers and colonists.The first Natives group encountered by Christopher Columbus in 1492, were the 250 thousand to 1 million Island Arawaks (more properly called the Taino) of Boriquen (Puerto Rico), Dominican Republic (Quisqueya), the Cubanacan (Cuba), and Haiti. It is said that only 500 survived by the year 1550, and the group was considered extinct before 1650. Yet DNA studies show that the genetic contribution of the Taino to that region continues, and the mitochondrial DNA studies of the Taino are said to show relationships to the Northern Indigenous Nations, such as Inuit (Eskimo) and others.In the 15th century, Spaniards and other Europeans brought horses to the Americas. Some of these animals escaped and began to breed and increase their numbers in the wild. Ironically, the horse had originally evolved in the Americas, but the early American horses were game for early human hunters, and went extinct about 7,000 BC, just after the end of the last ice age. The re-introduction of the horse had a profound impact on Native culture in the Great Plains of North America. This new mode of travel made it possible for some tribes to greatly expand their territories, exchange goods with neighboring tribes, and more easily capture game.Europeans also brought diseases, against which the Natives had no immunity. Chicken pox and measles, though common and rarely fatal among Europeans, often proved fatal to Natives, and more dangerous diseases such as smallpox were especially deadly to Native populations. It is difficult to estimate the total percentage of the Native population killed by these diseases. Epidemics often immediately followed European exploration, sometimes destroying entire villages. Some historians estimate that up to 80% of some Native may have died due to European diseases.Why Do You Support Leonard Peltier?

Add to My Profile | More Videos“Mr. Peltier’s unjust incarceration remains a festering sore that impedes better race relations in America. Surely the time has come to promote healing and a spirit of trust and genuine goodwill toward the Indian peoples of America with an act that serves both compassion and justice.”
–The Late Coretta Scott King
Join with these and other Peltier supporters to secure the freedom of an innocent man.
*Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
*American Indian Law Alliance
*Amnesty International
*Assembly of First Nations
*Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
*Jackson Browne
*The Late Mother Teresa
*Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell
*Geronimo Ji Pratt
*Hurricane Carter
*Belgian Parliament
*Tenzin Gyatso (the 14th Dalai Lama)
*Rodney Grant
*Sen. Daniel Inouye
*The Late Coretta Scott King
*Martin Luther King III
*Winona LaDuke
*Nelson Mandela
*Peter Matthiessen
*National Congress of American Indians
*The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center
*U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
*The Italian Parliament
*Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Mary Robinson
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*Cypress Hill
*Micheal Moore
*Oliver Stone
*Robert Redford
*Esthics of Resistance
*Rakka Irrsience
*Bicasso
*Zach De La Rocha
*Pep Love
*Tom Morrelo
*Rick Ruben
*AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
*DAKOTA YOUTH PROJECT
*FOR MOTHER EARTH
*IL CERCHIO
*INDIAN JUSTICE COUNCIL *AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT *INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RENAISSANCE ORGANIZATION
*Dr. Michael Koch for LPSG RheinMain
*KOLA Australia
*KOLA Great Britain
*KOLA International
*KOLA Nederland
*KWIA / LPSG België
*LEW GURWITZ STICHTING
*MASHPEE COALITION for NATIVE ACTION
*140 worldwide Leonard Peltier Support Groups
*NATIVE NATIONS NETWORK
*POLSKA GRUPA POPARCIA LEONARDA PELTIERA
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