'Their own records tells that 98% of our people died.... If you don't call that genocide, what is?'

Defiance in the

Land of the Free

By Nicola Graydon
The Sunday Times Magazine UK
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Sunday 23 April 2006

A Native American woman is at war with the US. For 30 years she's been fighting to keep her ancestral land - and now the United Nations is on her side.

The government came for the horses at dawn. It was spring 2003 and it was foaling season. A helicopter flew low over Pine Valley, herding them to corrals. Some prematurely gave birth, others were trampled. Armed federal agents stood by. By the end of the day, over 500 horses were taken to be auctioned off to a local rancher. Not long afterwards some 50 carcasses were dumped - the horses had starved to death.

Carrie Dann, a diminutive Western Shoshone grandmother who owned the horses, refuses to talk about it. "Indians love horses," is all she'll say. But she thinks it caused the death of her sister, Mary, who died last April. "After that," she says, "Mary went down real fast."

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---In order to restore dignity to both the United States, for war crimes committed against its' original natives... In Repriation for the lands and lives taken....

And to restore, to its' rightful place, the blood of the native to the power structure of this nation that defeated them.....

WE THE PEOPLE MUST DEMAND THAT NO LESS THAN 5 SENATE SEATS BE SET ASIDE TO BE FILLED ONLY BY THE DULY APPOINTED REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL FEDERAL INDIAN RESERVATIONS. BECAUSE BY GOD IF PUERTO RICO CAN GET A NON VOTING SENATE SEAT THEN SO CAN THE CHEROKEE, CREEK, CHOCTAW, APACHE, AND CHIPPAWA---