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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A $tpnd I.igc 6 The UTAH INDEPENDENT April 12, 1973 TOM ANDERSON For T Continued From Page 3 Hungary, Yugoslavia. Poland, .China, North Korea, Albania, Romania, Cuba, Chile, Panama, the Kurile Islands, Guam, and the Indonesian peninsula? Is it more traitorous to write a friendly letter to an opposing General of the Mother Country than to entertain one of the worlds murderers, Nikita Khruschev. :n the White House? Or to say, I like oid Joe! (Stalin) and give him a big hunk of the world to eniave. Was General Andre, who murdered a' few Americans, worse than Mao .lil-ti- Tse Tung, the most infamous murderer in human history, who the President of the United States embraced, gave gold to, sold out American workers and taxpayers to, sold out American soldiers killed in Vietnam to, sold -- out Taiwan and to, surrendered to? Were Benedict Arnolds business machinations worse than Armand Hammers, who for a lifetime, hasx profited tremendously by trading with the enemy? Or Cyrus Eatons? These men were real pioneers. They were helping the enemy back when it was treason. Even before Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson Kennedy, St. Paul and Milwaukee to instill in grade at Wounded Knee is possible if American Indian culture school-ag- e children. AIM activists continue to flaunt Jhe Washington Evening (From the law. The Indians haverievances Star and Daily News, Mar. 17, aplenty. Some have been recognized and corrected. ...Tribal 1973) Told By BIA To the Churchmen officials elected through Leave Wounded Knee democratic process on each Bureau of Indian Affairs police reservation by each tribe should be Council of the official spokesmen for each have orered all National off the .tribe.... The AIM activists are Churches representatives for reservation Pine Ridge Indian defying the wishes of the and abetting militant overwhelming majority of the aiding Indians entrenched at Wounded Oglala Sioux people. Legitimate Knee. grievances of that tribe cannot be Armed with a blanket summons considered until order is restored. Melcher concluded with the issued by the Oglala Sioux Tribal remark that the situation is a sad Council, BIA police yesterday 20 NCC commentary on our ability to run ordered about effective as we representatives to leave. The NCC government volunteers, however, ignored a should. It also is a sad commentary on threat that they would be jailed and effective media coverage of events said they were staying. BIA police exerted the power of at Wounded Knee, and on the which gives them reports of Rep. Abdnor in the the summons authority to throw out nonresident Congress. last night after a undesirables Half AIM Indians Said to Receive group of about 70 Indians, U.S. Funds apparently non Oglala, and whites The Detroit News reported seized a community hall in the today (March 18) that more than half the members of the nearby village of Porcupine. Federal officers quickly AMERICAN Indian Movement ousted the group, which are employees of social welfare apparently was attempting to agencies financed primarily by penetrate the cordon of marshals federal grants. encircling Wounded Knee. There The News story by John were no reports of violence. Peterson said the organization Talks Expected Today whose leaders were instrumental in No negotiations to end the the takeover of Wounded Knee. occupation of Wounded Knee were S.D.. has received more than held yesterday because Asst. Atty. S400.000 in federal funds since its Wood was Gen. Harlington of founding in 1968 as an delayed in his return from a Minneapolis antipoverty he was Washington, where program. and with Justice conferring officials. Interior Department Wood returned to Wounded The News said AIM has 258 Knee last night and negotiations members. were expected to be held today. The paper quoted an unnamed Observers felt Wood had returned federal official as saying: When AIM took over Wounded Knee three weeks ago, the Justice Department was all set to move in and make arrests. But then AIM leaders threatened to call a press conference and disclose exactly how much financing they've had from the federal government in recent months. Thats when the Interior Justice Department backed off. Latex Wall Paint Petersons story said a two-wee- k Regularly priced $6.00 investigation disclosed that last June 21. AIM received a SI 13,000 grant from the Office of Economic gallon Opportunity. Of that amount, Peterson said, S60.000 was for survival schools in Minneapolis, STATE HARDWARE Continued From Page Poles, Germans, Lativians, Ukranians. Estonians, and Slovacs to the .Russian enemy (Operation Keelhaul) to be murdered? Is it worse to surrender a small position at West Point than to surrender East Germany, and Nixon were. But back to our maligned hero, Benedict Arnold. Has he suffered enough? After all, he just lived at the wrong time. Today, he might be head of the United Nations. Or, at the very least, President cf the United States. Regardless of what those people in San Francisco do, I am going to push my own n organization. Naturally, the only dues will be in fake money, dollar bills, paid annually or at the time of a Nixon press WOODS CROSS REALTY & INSURANCE whichever What We Really Sell Is Service Since 1932 426 W. 500 So. Bountiful, Utah 84010 officials, educators, r Big Businessmen. i i EVERYTHING FOR 18-d- ay American Indian Movement. Dick Wilson, the Oglala Sioux tribal chairman who has been an AIM outspoken critic of the takeover, said the council delated a state of emergency and authorized the tribal court to issue the blanket summons. When informed NCC representatives planned to stay, he said, If they do that, they will sit in our jail. However, there was no immediate move to oust the NCC representatives, who have been serving as mediators between the government and the 200 militant occupants. More Food The NCC was playing a key role in setting up a program providing more food for the occupation forces which a spokesman called Pine Ridge Reservation the Disaster Fund." The Rev. John Adams of Washington. D.C. said the NCC had pledges totaling more that S6.000 and that S 1.200 of that had been allocated for groceries. The NCC, with government approval, has taken in only two car trunk loads of food and medicine during the past two days. American Indian Movement leader Russell Means said from that the inside the village is on a force occupation subsistence diet and the village has - no fuel. The Oglala Sioux President On Indian Government and The AIM Movement During the last tew days I have been reading what the white mans newspapers have been saying 246 S. State Salt Lake City, Utah 355-378- 3 on our about the goings-o- n reservations. It has made me really wonder. Why dont the reporters try to find out whats, going on before they start writing? If you want to know what is going on at Wounded Knee now you have to understand what has been happening to our people for the last hundred years. After the United States army invaded our country and our warriors finally had to surrender in 1877, the United States set up an occupation government for us. We were run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and our on reservation, Our occupation government lasted for a long time. More than 50 years passed before the first Rechange came. Under the Indian organization Act of 1934 we were finally given a chance t6 set up our own government. We did that by vote of the people in 1935. A majority of the people voted to set up our self government, but there was a strong minority A lot of people against it. were accustomed to being run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and wanted to keep it that w ay. Our self government was set up by a vote of 1.348 for and 1,041 against. The opponents of self government, the people w ho preferred paternalism, have been agitating against our tribal government fora long, long time. Continued On Page 7 TV REPAIRS Magnavox Authorized Value Specials 3 MODELS Push or d 18 and 21 cutting widths Real mowing performance power-propelle- at reasonable cost! Service Center ANTENNA INSTALLATIONS V We Service jfvy Serving Tape Recorders u,oh Car Radios Stereos . y r T v". I I t W y f . y... 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