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Show Venceremos page E008 Fall 1994 - Ute vandals come forward! dalized on the University of Utah campus. Although the vandalism occurred two days after Columbus day and contained several obvious political statements, a great deal of controversy has raged on the campus as to - the motives of the perpetrators. Was this a legitimate protest or simply a prank tied to the holiday for convenience? | There are many who for political reasons would prefer that the latter possibility prove to be the correct reason for the vandalism. After an Oct. 13 article in The Daily Utah Chronicle gave a report of the incident, the response from the Native-American community was immediate. Phone complaints were received attacking the paper and the follow“The 'Ute Brave' and surrounding sidewalk located outside of the Union Building were violated with a swastika and graffiti. The message 502 years of Genocide. Fuck Columbus?” marred the sidewalk, and the warning “We will be back' alongside a large ambiguous “E” were scrawled along the base of the Native American.” (?) Your prejudice, objective, dehumanizing stereotypical way of calling a bronze statue a “Native American” (which was probably modeled after a “white boy” and looks more like “Chief” Wayne Shepherd with a headdress on, than any Ute or “Native American] perpetuates your ancestor's racist colonist attitude toward the aboriginal people of this land. That arrogant attitude that began with Columbus and all the conquistadors and colonists that followed paved the way for the genocide of my people that still goes on today and remains unchallenged or ignored by nation done. like ing week American-Indian Student Adviser Beverly Sutteer wrote a letter to The Chronicle asking if the paper was “...intentionally trying to strain relations between the American-Indian Community and the university.” On the university's part, the speed with which the graffiti was cleaned up (it was removed within hours) attests to the administration's inclination to have the incident, and the embarrassing issue of the appropriateness of the Ute mascot, downplayed as much as possible. - Venceremos has received a letter from a group claiming responsibility for the vandal18M. The letter's authors shed light on a puzzling aspect of the graffiti which has been the United States has Natives are not any statue, mascot [professional [sports team], university, high school or elementary school), advertisement gimmick (i.e. chewing tobacco, butter] automobile, missile, helicopter or any object or thing asso- ciated with the U.S. cavalry/military/government. All the designers or “artists” who portray the aboriginal people of this land lan racially stereotypical way in our own home should be put to trial for “crimes against humanity” like Julius Streicher [one of Hitler's propagandist) who only penned and published virulently antiSemitic materials. He was convicted any human being registered with the “recognized” 274 Indigenous Nations in the contiguous United States. the B.LA? thinks “and acts: as if our of “having participated in the “psychological conditioning of the German public” which led to genocidal outcome. On this basis, he was hanged.” (Emphasis added.) You propagandists who claim “it is just my job” or “it's just in fun” are guilty of treason against humanity for perpetuating the way in which your ancestors intentionally killed, raped, grave robbed and murdered all the patriots who stood up and are still standing up for their stolen land over the past 502 years. First you rape the people then the land and continue in denial until today when [we] will stop sovereign indigenous nations do not exist, even though the international you “by any means necessary.” Ignorant Mormon colonialists of Utah the “white Amerikkka.” According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs [our so called patriarchal “trustee”) a “Native American” treaties (like NAFTA] sovereign nations are is between still valid, all 400+ treaties the United States signed «with our sovereign nations have been and are being violated. Only the nations who signed on the treaty can abrogate whose sovereign international treaty rights, not just one who allow and perpetuate these genocidal ideas are just as guilty and responsible by not changing or even —saying anything about this and all genocidal practices (i.e. international treaty violations, blood quantum) must stop! The truth must be heard as our brothers in the south (ELZN, held up as evidence against the authenticity of the political statement — the inclusion of a Nazi swastika alongside messages attacking the discovery and colonization of the Americas by Europeans. A backwards swastika appearing at the top of the letter, like that painted on the statue, say the letter writers, is an ancient Native-American syim- Dal" Except for a possibly libelous statement attacking Chief of Campus Police Wayne Shepherd, who was quoted in The Chronicle as saying that the graffiti was simply a malicious prank, the letter is presented here in its entirety. The bolded items within quote marks are excerpted from The Chronicle article by the letter writers. Unless otherwise noted, the quotations are ela S Mayan warriors) proclaim * “enough is. enough!” We must also join in the fight by healing the land we walk on by standing up for the indigenous nations fighting for sovereignty around the world (i.e. ETA, IRA, ILF...). We will be back! We are all descendants of some indigenous traditions. We are not at war with each other but with the poison ideas that are forced into us at birth. Your heart speaks the truth of the land, your heart is the connection, so listen closely for every day our prophecies are coming true. Listen for you message, your path, your soul. Now you have been warned. Now you have been warned. “*Caucasian' teens on bicycles” [note: This line may be a reference to Sutteer's letter to The Chronicle.] “[The statue is] part of a history of a great institution and to have that maliciously destroyed should upset os million North Ea ña only four centuries. later 237,000 remain (over 90 percent of the original population destroyed). This was done intentionally. this is called genocide! This has continued to eventually appropriate everything we have left — our religions, our images, our bodies. We the indigenous people in alliance with our mother earth and father sky are going to take it back! There is no amount of your electrical demons pumping your “tech-no-logic' or your brainwashed, blind robot soldiers that can not stop the enviable. You are your own demise! “It's not clear at all.” “With a swastika, Indian, Columbus and the “E' it doesn't make sense.” “If the vandals intended their message to be taken seriously, they would not have relayed it in such a “boggled way?” If you had any kind of intelligence or listened to your conscious then this “action/message' was very obvious and the message clear. This is How soon you forget the history of graffiti on the inside of the walls that conquest as your population thrived white (capitalist) society builds up in off our blood. then you hide from the your brain to be a consumer, a slave truth and deny being any part of to worship the multi-national corpoColumbus and his genocidal legacy Tate elite (priests of the golden Bull]. and continue to do nothing to stop it. Shouldn't it upset everyone that we “TI think there was no real message have been hunted and systematically other than someone needs to learn sterilized to exterminate our populahow to grow up. l just think it was tion and assimilate all that we have nothing but maliciousness.” [The left (100,000+ years of wisdom and next line asserts that Shepherd's comstrength from living in balance with ments have an anatomical origin and our mother) into token mascots, “new makes aspersions about his physical age” religions and automobiles. Shouldn't it upset people that in the year 1500 there were in excess of See “vandals” on pg. six everyone.” Al PT Editor's note: Early morning Oct. 12 a statue known as the “Ute Brave' was van- |
