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Let us love not only our sameness But our unsameness. In our difference is our strength. Let us be not for ourselves al

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Let us love not only our sameness But our unsameness. In our difference is our strength. Let us be not for ourselves al

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    1. “Let us love not only our sameness But our unsameness. In our difference is our strength. Let us be not for ourselves alone But also for that Other Who is our deepest Self.” ~Leonard Peltier~

    2. http://www.americaremembers.com/products/LBIGHORNRI/LBIGHORNRI_Custer.jpghttp://www.americaremembers.com/products/LBIGHORNRI/LBIGHORNRI_Custer.jpg

    3. http://www.nativeamericans.com/Sitting_Bull-Buffalo_Bill.jpghttp://www.nativeamericans.com/Sitting_Bull-Buffalo_Bill.jpg

    4. “Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.” ~Chief Sitting Bull~ http://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/sittbull.htmlhttp://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/sittbull.html

    5. http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/chapter_4/001_002_4.41.jpghttp://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/chapter_4/001_002_4.41.jpg

    6. "I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another, and not fight, or steal, or lie." ~Wovoka~ http://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/hoxie/hoxie/images/WoundedKnee/wounded.htmhttp://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/hoxie/hoxie/images/WoundedKnee/wounded.htm

    7. http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/visual5.htmlhttp://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/visual5.html

    8. “Looking toward the sun, the dancers would do a shuffling, counter-clockwise side-step, chanting while they sang songs of resurrection. Some dances would continue for days until the participants ‘died,’ falling to the ground, rolling around and experiencing visions of a new land of hope and freedom from white people which was promised by the messiah.” ~Eyewitness Account of the Ghost Dance~

    9. http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/chapter_4/001_002_4.42.jpghttp://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/chapter_4/001_002_4.42.jpg

    10. http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/chapter_4/001_002_4.11.jpghttp://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/chapter_4/001_002_4.11.jpg

    11. 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre

    12. http://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/hoxie/hoxie/images/WoundedKnee/wounded.htm http://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/hoxie/hoxie/images/WoundedKnee/wounded.htm

    13. http://gbn.glenbrook.k12.il.us/academics/SocStud/staff/whorine/usimages/woundedknee.jpghttp://gbn.glenbrook.k12.il.us/academics/SocStud/staff/whorine/usimages/woundedknee.jpg

    14. http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/chapter_4/001_002_4.45.jpghttp://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/chapter_4/001_002_4.45.jpg

    15. http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded02.JPGhttp://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded02.JPG

    16. 1968 American Indian Movement Begins

    17. “There are no followers in AIM. We are all leaders. We are each an army of one, working for the survival of our people and of the Earth, our Mother.” ~Leonard Peltier~

    18. http://wayaka.altervista.org/alcatraz/dennismeans.jpghttp://wayaka.altervista.org/alcatraz/dennismeans.jpg

    19. 1972 “Trail of Broken Treaties”

    20. http://www.maquah.net/Historical/1972/BIA-occupation1972.jpghttp://www.maquah.net/Historical/1972/BIA-occupation1972.jpg

    21. “We need not give another recitation of past complaints nor engage in redundant dialogue of discontent...The government of the United States knows the reasons for our going to its capital city. Unfortunately, they don't know how to greet us.” ~Press Statement Released by AIM~ http://www.aimovement.org/ggc/trailofbrokentreaties.htmlhttp://www.aimovement.org/ggc/trailofbrokentreaties.html

    22. 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee

    23. http://www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/civilrightslitigation/img/reservation.jpg http://www.pbs.org/itvs/homeland/photos/ph_today3.jpghttp://www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/civilrightslitigation/img/reservation.jpg http://www.pbs.org/itvs/homeland/photos/ph_today3.jpg

    25. "I will fight for my people. I will live for them and, if it is necessary to stop the terrible things that happen to Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation, I am ready to die for them." ~Pedro Bissonette~ http://rwor.org/a/v19/950-59/952/wound.htmhttp://rwor.org/a/v19/950-59/952/wound.htm

    26. http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2001/05-11/photos/activists.jpghttp://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2001/05-11/photos/activists.jpg

    27. http://woglakapi.free.fr/sioux/images/wknee0.jpghttp://woglakapi.free.fr/sioux/images/wknee0.jpg

    28. http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/huenersd/ENGL101/photo%20essay%20project/photographs/wounded_knee.jpghttp://www.homepages.dsu.edu/huenersd/ENGL101/photo%20essay%20project/photographs/wounded_knee.jpg

    29. “Wounded Knee ended after the deaths of two of our AIM occupiers—Frank Clearwater and Buddy Lamont—by sniper bullets…Wounded Knee II was over, though its repercussions continue to this day.” ~Leonard Peltier~

    30. 1975 Incident at Oglala

    31. http://www.grahamdefense.org/Images/200411-leonard-peltier1.jpghttp://www.grahamdefense.org/Images/200411-leonard-peltier1.jpg

    32. http://rwor.org/i/lp_ph.jpghttp://rwor.org/i/lp_ph.jpg

    33. “Let us forgive the worst among us Because the worst is in ourselves, The worst lives in each of us, Along with the best.” ~Leonard Peltier~ Leavenworth Prison

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