1. Demand a full incomplete investigation on all human and civil rights violations which occurred in the
2. Sheridan County of the legalized hanging of local the ceased to the recent two murders of Ron Hard heart and Wally Black Elk
3. Immediate closure of all liquor stores in White Clay until such a time and license is issued by the Secretary of interior or his representative. RE:1904 Executive Order
4. Return of original designated Pine Ridge agency lands which include White Clay Nebraska.
5. Creation of a permanent civil rights office in Sheridan County to address human and civil violations against indigenous Lakota Oyate.
6. Immediate removal of Terry Robbins for cover-up of deputy Metcalf's criminal activities against indigenous Lakota Oyate.
7. Establish a law requiring data collection on all traffic stops to include troopers and state law enforcement to record the race of every motorist they stop. RE: North Carolina law.
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Lakota Oyate-News & Current Events
In an uncharacteristic stumble from a near perfectly delivered poverty tour script, President Clinton called the Crazy Horse Monument 'Crazy House' as he urged tribal members to embrace tourism within the New Markets Initiative he championed on Pine Ridge, July 7. Inadvertently, Clinton's Freudian slip provided an apt description of this first visit to an Indian reservation by a US President since Franklin D. Roosevelt called in on the Cherokees of North Carolina during a 1936 vacation.
Packed with flagging cars and horses - drivers, riders, passengers and pedestrians milled around the streets surrounding Pine Ridge High School in a gaggle of eager anticipation. "We needed him to come here," insisted Isaac White Face. "I want him to see the poverty we live in and the need for economic development."
The almost unreal yet highly charged atmosphere was carried onto the campus by an estimated 5,000 spectators who defied the baking sun and crammed in to witness, and participate in, the historic moment.
"We are supposed to talk to him," commented Chief Oliver Red Cloud, gesturing towards fellow traditional Lakota leaders and elders waiting patiently in the punishing heat. "The Lakota people face all kinds of problems. The United States don't really honor our treaty rights but I'm here to listen to what their President has to say. After all, we can't talk to Senator Daschle because he doesn't listen to us - he's trying to take everything that we have," Chief Red Cloud concluded, referring to Senator Daschle's role in the Mitigation Bill...
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Crazy House
Monumental Promises Underscore Clinton's Shared Vision For
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