Help us Stop iitc and aim's Exploitation of the Alcatraz Take Over of 1969-71

Please Listen & Share Our Interview of Dr.Lehman Brightman on the Entire History of the Alcatraz Take Over

https://soundcloud.com/united-native-americans/united-native-americans-the-entire-history-of-the-alcatraz-take-over

I would like to share the below e-mail conversation we as United Native Americans had in Hopes of Trying to create "Unity" between iitc & aim about the Possibility of Working together & sharing in the Alcatraz Festivities that the iitc has taken upon themselves to Position themselves as the "Host Organization" out at Alcatraz and have been Exploiting our organization and all the whom were in fact a part of the beginning of the Red Power Movement U.N.A. Founded.




We as United Native Americans would like any and all whom are in disbelief of the Facts of our Issue with both iitc and aim should Not that "We did Not initiate the disagreement and conflict that the iitc and aim created by claiming one of Our Many Accomplishments during Our 45 Year's of Service for Our Tribal Community since U.N.A was Founded here in the San Francisco Bay Area." And with that being said. I personally hope everyone will take this time to Read the below e-mail we wrote in Hopes of Repairing the Damage iitc and aim have done in not wanting to work together.




We will Not be silenced by a Group of Bullies whom have chose to initiate the conflict and continue to be the One's who Divide Our Community. Until iitc and aim Comply with our request to display a Unity, we are Organizing a "Boycott of any iitc and aim lead and or sponsored Event Hosted by iitc and aim out at Alcatraz.




It should also be Noted that Bay Native Circle, the KPFA Radio Program that Airs the so called "Sun Rise Ceremony" and "Un-Thanks Giving" Events out at Alcatraz is out of compliance with Journalism ethics and standards on their reporting of "Accuracy and standards for factual reporting" on the Alcatraz Take Over History and in Choosing to Play Favoritism in whom they chose to Cover in their Role as a Reliable and Acurate Indigenous Community News Source. They are in Fact doing our community a Great disservice and should be taken off the air until they Comply with "Accuracy and standards for factual reporting."


Quanah Brightman qbrightman75 [at] hotmail.com

To: unitednativeamericansinc [at] gmail.com; andrea [at] treatycouncil.org

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Subject: RE: FYIO re Alcatraz sponsorship and my comments on the "history" discussion

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:04:21 -0800

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> I hope this message finds all of you in good health and

>spirits. We would like to Commend AIM and IITC for

>Spearheading the Sunrise Ceremony in Honor of the

>Takeover of Alcatraz.

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> We have to go back to the Beginning and Remember who was

>there from the Very Beginning to the End. It was not just

>One Organization or One group of Students from any One

>particular school. It was a joint effort of UNA inc.,

>Community Members of the greater Bay Area, students of UC

>Berkley and San Francisco State that were The Original

>Occupiers of Alcatraz, later as some time passed AIM and

>students from many different Colleges joined in.

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> In order to tell the History, the TRUE History We Must

>Come Together Once Again and Tell the story as it was.

> The events of that time are documented on film and in

>writing, so if need be those old pictures and video

>footage have and can be brought out for people to see.

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> We understand AIM's frustrations and concerns but we,

>UNA inc. too have had to fight and re-educate Indian

>country and people abroad on who was really there in the

>beginning. It pains us and our founders that our

>organization that was founded in San Francisco in 1968

>continues to go unrecognized not only by fellow natives

>but also by those who published pictures and wrote books

>about the Alcatraz Take Over.

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> If the story is going to be told let it be told the way

>it happened and not the way "YOU" want people to think it

>happened. There is no need to rewrite history, which has

>been done to us for too long by our oppressors.

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>From Now on We would like to see at least one member of

>each Organization invited and listed as a participant on

>flyers, press release and interviews every time an event

>such as this one is being organized.

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> It's only fair we teach our children that we as native

>people should live in harmony and unity as one.

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> Respectfully,

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> United Native Americans Inc.

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>From: eltonyg [at] earthlink.net

> To: jimbo.simmons [at] yahoo.com

> CC: mezhakamaykijikok [at] yahoo.com; drloco [at] drloco.com;

>victora_ [at] hotmail.com; mrobertson [at] sftc.org;

>wahpepah [at] comcast.net; aimsober [at] yahoo.com

> Subject: FW: FYIO re Alcatraz sponsorship

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:22:17 -0700

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> Jimbo, FYIO

> I wanted to share these words with you, and invited

>respectful eyes, to see what is holding up the program

>concerning AIM, AIM-WEST, and the IITC regards plans for

>Alcatraz Island as we head toward October and November.

> (A reminder to all that AIM founded the IITC).

> There are many missing pieces to these exchange of words

>perhaps but I trust many of our friends also know that

>you and I are among those who put in substantial AIM time

>and organizing efforts in the Bay Area and in building

>the Island's attendance long before some staff were born,

>and another whom I invited into the family of IITC

>myself. Hardly if ever has this particular staff

>individual interacted with the American Indian community

>in the Bay Area.

> Perhaps we should also invite all our friends in AIM and

>AIM-WEST to make plans to come to Hawai'I in April for

>the next IITC conference as suggested by its director,

>and find a solution to end this impasse? Actually I

>would like to settle it sooner! Thanks for allowing me

>to vent my thoughts.

> Tony G

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>From: Bill Means [mailto:Bill.Means [at] state.mn.us]

> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:18 AM

> To: Antonio Gonzales

> Subject: Fwd: re Alcatraz sponsorship

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> Sr. Antonio,

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> I wanted to send you this email since I used your name

>in questioning Andrea's position on AIM sponsorship. She

>continues to hide behind the IITC Board when she is the

>only one besides Pancho who really feels this way. but I

>have to call on her on things like this or she will think

>she can continue to discredit AIM West without a

>response.

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> Toksha, Bill

>>>> "Andrea Carmen" 12:05 PM

>>>>9/21/2009 >>>

> Esteemed IITC Board of Directors, SF office staff and

>Bay Area Advisory council member (since Bill's first

>message was forwarded to them as well),

> I am forwarding this note to the entire Board of

>Directors, as well the Board members and staff who

>received Bill's first message as it concerns a matter of

>IITC's organization decision making..

> I understand Bill's views re advocating to add "AIM

>WEST" to the co-sponsorship of Alcatraz since he has

>expressed them consistently since he helped to form the

>"AIM WEST" group with Tony a couple of years ago. We

>certainly went through a very similar communication about

>this last year, with no changes made at the end of the

>day.

> However, I also understand and have been clearly and

>directly informed that other IITC Board members and staff

>members (as well as members of the Bay Area Indian

>community and California Indian Nations ) have a

>different view on this issue, and some of them are

>equally as strong as Bill's.

> IITC is not against AIM WEST of any other Indigenous

>organization, nor have we ever taken such a position.

> All IITC Board members and staff are welcome to

> maintain their own political and personal loyalties and

>relationships (or to chose which they do not want to have

>as individuals).

> But these choices do not necessarily and automatically

>translate into IITC's organizational positions or

>decisions. Such matters require collective discussion

>and decision-making, especially when they are

>controversial and involve issues of representation to the

>public which is governed by IITC's Representation policy.

> Back and forth E-mails with a few individuals will not

>suffice to resolve this when there are a range of views

>within IITC . If this issue is so important, we should

> consider it as a formal, well considered, collective

>IITC discussion at the next Board meeting.

> So I will repeat what I said last year on this same

>matter when it was raised: The sponsorship of the both

>Alcatraz events this year (October and November 2009)

>will remain the same as it has been over many previous

>years, with an open invitation for all to attend. This

>arrangement re co-sponsorship of the 2 Alcatraz events

>has worked very well and smoothly, without conflict or

>controversy (IITC and AICA) for many years. This will

> continue to be the case until I am instructed to change

>this position by a consensus of the IITC Board of

>Directors, hopefully in consultation with the staff

>members who are in our SF office and are responsible for

>coordinating the event and representing IITC in the Bay

>Area community. As ED, I am very respectful of their

>work and role in this regard. I am sure the Board

>members are as well.

> I am happy to discuss this at our next Board meeting if

>need be, which is provisionally scheduled for April 2010

>in Hawaii.

> Thanks to all,

> Andrea

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>From: Bill Means [mailto:Bill.Means [at] state.mn.us]

> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 7:58 AM

> To: mstargali [at] gmail.com; naipc-list [at] lists.nativeweb.org;

>janeenantoine [at] mac.com; 'Radley Davis'; 'Alberto

>Saldamando'; Andrea Carmen; 'Morning Star Gali'

> Subject: Re: [Naipc-list] FINAL Alcatraz flyer with new

>updated information onbox office and boat times,please

>use this flyer for distribution and posting, thanks!

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> Ms Carmen,

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> It is amazing what lengths some Peoples will go to

>revise history. The modern day Alcatraz events of

>Columbus Day and Thanksgiving Day were started by the

>American Indian Movement under the leadership of Bill

>Wahpepah and later in solidarity with IITC and then later

>in solidarity of American Indian Contemporary Arts. Since

>we do have an AIM West organization in California I think

>it would be appropriate to include AIM West as a sponsor.

>To continue to ignore AIM West is doing a disservice to

>IITC and Leonard Peltier and the many supporters AIM has

>throughout the world and certainly Leonard Peltier

>himself. Andrea because of your bias and predjudice

>toward Antonio Gonzales you are denying the rightful

>recognition of the valuable role the American Indian

>Movement has played in California and certainly the

>history of IITC. Young People continue to ask me when I

>visit the Bay area why Andrea is so set against Antonio

>Gonzales and/or AIM? It's kinda like denying your Irish.

>Let's work together instead of changing history for

>personal interests. I look forward to coming to Alcatraz

>in November to work along side of AIM West, American

>Indian Contemporary Arts, KPFA and IITC. As a history

>major I was taught that "History Matters". We support a

>United Ireland! Go IRA!

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> Toksha, Bill