I have a note here from Sen. Carol Juneau, D-Browning, Mont. She is inviting people to take a stand on violence against Native women at an upcoming conference. If we all do our part to honor Native women, we’ll help make our families and communities healthy today and tomorrow. Here’s what Juneau has to say:
Dear Friends and Tribal Leaders…
I do hope that you will be able to attend the conference next week, June 23-24, in Helena, at the State Capitol on stopping the violence against Montana’s American Indian Women.
The 61 Montana State Legislature recently adopted Joint Resolution 26 entitled “Honoring Montana’s American lndian Women by Stopping the Violence Against Them”.
The resolution called for the Montana Department of Justice, Montana Board of Crime Control, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and other state agencies as well as our congressional delegation, our tribal governments and local governments to act aggressively to intervene in the pattern of domestic and sexual violence that affects Montana’s American lndian women.
Please contact State Director of lndian Affairs Jennifer Perez Cole at (406) 444-3702 at jpcole@mt.gov to confirm your tribe’s participation.
Senator Carol Juneau, SD 8
Jodi Rave
problembear
i nominate carol for democratic candidate for the us house of representatives. i think she would defeat rehberg. sign me up for any help she needs. thanks for this post jodi….
Snapple
Did you ever read Ward Churchill’s admission that he threw his Indian wife Leah Kelly into a bedroom wall? His admission is no longer on the Internet, but maybe it is in the first edition of the book that Leah supposedly wrote, “In My Own Voice.”
I have saved the full article, but cite from it here.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2006/02/assault-on-leah-kelly.html
This was my second post on my blog. I have posted about Leah a number of times.
Jodi Rave
Leah never wrote that book. Ward wrote it in her name after she died. Her family is very upset about the book. Did you read the affidavit submitted by Leah’s sister? I will check out your blog. Thanks.
Snapple
I posted the Rhonda Kelly’s affadavit in an article here.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2009/05/affidavit-of-rhonda-lynne-kelly.html
I have always wondered if Churchill really wrote “Leah’s” book and cynically called it “In My Own Voice.”
He exploited Leah’s death like the criminal leaders of AIM exploited Anna Mae’s death.
Have you read this about the lawyer who represented AIM during the 1973 occupation? His name is Mark Lane. I have often wondered if he is the father of Churchill’s lawyer David Lane.
I read that the “son of Mark Lane” tried to get the originals of some audio tapes from Richard Two Elk.
Mark Lane was not only the lawyer for AIM, also the lawyer for the 900 people who were murdered at Jonestown.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2008/01/mark-lane-aimster-attorney.html
He was also getting money from the Soviet Intelligence (KGB) to write propaganda. We know this because a defector from the KGB named Mitrokhin brought out this information. Mark Lane had a relationship with some Soviet journalists, particularly with a famous KGB journalist and “prince of the KGB” named Genrikh Borovik. Borovik is the brother-in-law of KGB chief Kryuchkov, who was one of the men who held Gorbachev hostage and made the failed 1991 coup.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2009/06/attorney-mark-lane-and-poisoned-cheese.html
Mark Lane didn’t tell the politicians and newsmen who visited Jonestown that he had heard their cheese sandwiches were poisoned. He just didn’t eat his sandwich. Does this sound like something a person who cares about human rights would do? Mark Lane also “managed to escape” when everyone else was poisoned. Then Mark Lane, who ad a relationship with the KGB, wrote a book that claimed the CIA poisoned those people.
When I found that out, I began to realize that the occupation of Wounded Knee could have been even worse. Still, perhaps 7 people were murdered, the people were robbed and held hostage, and their homes were ruined.