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Peltier's Reaction to Kamook and the Arlo Looking Cloud Trial

by Leonard Peltier
The Arlo Looking Cloud trial was nothing more than an indirect presentation of another Myrtle Poorbear to discredit AIM and myself, and to extradite John Graham. I am an innocent man.
Hau Kola,

First of all, I want to thank all those who have been standing up for the
American Indian Movement and myself. The Arlo Looking Cloud trial was
nothing more than an indirect presentation of another Myrtle Poorbear to
discredit AIM and myself, and to extradite John Graham. I am an innocent
man. The government knows that, and Kamook knows I am innocent as well.

On a personal note, Kamook's testimony was like being stabbed in the heart
while simultaneously being told your sister just died. I cannot convey
enough, the shock and hurt that I felt. Of all the fabrications that the
government has used to keep me imprisoned, this one hurt so deeply. I would
have laid down my life to defend Kamook and her people and I did risk it
several times. If there has ever been a time during my 28 years in this
hole that I have felt disheartened, it is now. I loved Kamook as my own
family. I can't believe the $43,000 the FBI gave her was a determining
factor for her to perjure herself on the witness stand. There must have
been some extreme threat the FBI or their cronies put upon her.

If you want to know who is responsible for Anna Mae's death, just look
around and see who else has been irresponsibly pointing fingers at proven
warriors. This kind of behavior is doing the dirty work of the F.B.I. and
the corporate entities that seek to control or own Native lands and
resources. All of those who took part in this abortion of justice in Rapid
City should be ashamed. I would say more, but my emotions are overwhelming
at the moment.

We as a people and a nation need to honor those who sacrificed for the
people and not forget them as they become elders. In every generation we
must stand strong. The enemy has many masks and the ideologies that drive
it are centuries old now, the gluttonous appetite for money and power of
those addicted. I will not give up and it's not over until it's over.
Speak, organize, demonstrate, pray, help the poor and oppressed, be a good
example, and most of all "don't ever give up!"

In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse,
Leonard Peltier
Mitakuye Oyasin

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