Stand up! Fight back! Vote!
From NDN-AIM yahoo groups
10 Nov 2002
Ah-Ho My Relations,
Bill Janklow has attacked Tribal Sovereignty again today. He is running for Congress and needs the Indian hating vote. The worst part of this election is that Janklow is depending on Indian people to stay in office. His whole political career is built of his belief that he can spit in our face and we will take it. He knows we can kick him out of office anytime we see fit to vote, but he is betting he can slap Indians in the face to get white votes, and Indians will roll over for him. For over three decades this Indian-hating son of Custer has depended on Indians to be silent and let him defile us. He has taken our lands, diminished our sovereignty, stolen our water, abused our sick and elderly, taken our kids, defiled our culture, advocated a "bullet in the head" for Indian leaders and laid waste to our sacred He'Sapa for white economics. He has been completely out front with his continuing attacks on Indian people, he brags about destroying us and laughs at our lack of spirit to fight back. Janklow is where he is because Indian people give him permission to step on them, we have remained on our knees no matter what he does for three decades, now he depends on us continuing to kneel. What is wrong with us, you and me, to make us let Custer ride through our camps without lifting a red hand to stop him? As our grandparents watch Janklow tear our people apart in front of their eyes, I wonder what they think? Would they be happy in their graves if all of us woke up and decided to stop Janklow? We can. The wasicu has given us the weapon to protect our helpless ones with, what can keep us for throwing the switch or pulling the lever on a ballot box? Fear? Janklow can be stopped only by Indian people standing up for themselves, nothing else can stop him, no one else will stop him. Indians can either spend election day laying down on our backs, with Janklows spit dribbling down our red faces, or we can rise up! and fight this evil wasicu. Rise up! to say no more can Janklow kick us on the ground. Rise up! to defend the homelands. Rise up! to stand for the Elders and children who can't protect themselves. It is our duty to stand up for the people. Janklow has chosen the vote as his weapon and counts on Indians not to pick up such a wasicu weapon. He uses his weapon to take our children and put them in cages. He uses his weapon to poison our water and land. He uses his weapon to deny our elders medicine. He uses his weapon to rule our people with his police. Now he wants us to help him get a bigger, more powerful weapon to use against our people. He asks us to help him by not voting, he dares us to pick up his weapon but knows if we do he will be defeated. Only you and I can keep Janklow in office and allow him to attack red people, and only you and I can throw him away. Shame on each of us if we fail. It is up to the true warriors to pick up the weapon to fight back, it always has been.
Carter Camp, voting in Rosebud.
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