Posted on 02/28/2005 5:31:30 AM PST by Snapple
Leah Renae Kelly was not simply an “inebriated pedestrian killed by [a] car,” as the local newspaper so casually remarked on the date she died. There were reasons why that young, beautiful, incredibly promising and catastrophically drunk Ojibwe woman was running barefoot down the middle of the road that night. Whether she thought she was running away from something, towards something else, or whether she was capable of thinking anything at all in that moment are things beyond my power of knowing. In a larger sense, however, I do know why she was drunk, why she was a drunk and therefore why things ended for her as they did. From there, I cannot avoid the meaning of it all. Leah’s is the quintessential story of contemporary North America. It is thus ours, each of us, to the extent that we live on this continent. From this, squirm as one might, there is, can be no escape.
The essential elements of Leah’s story emerge from the realities of her identity as an American Indian.
(Excerpt) Read more at darknightpress.org ...
Churchill is divorced from two wives and a third is "road kill."
Leah Kelly's "accidental" death sounds a little suspicious to me.
This is a long article by Ward Churchill which is critical of the FBI for allegedly colluding in the murder of over 50 Pine Ridge Indians who were members of AIM or their families. He calls the FBI terrorists:"[t]he killings often amounted not simply to murders, but to a pattern of officially sponsored terrorism."
http://www.noparolepeltier.com/churchill.html
Please notice how closely this article mirrors the FBI's file on the Osage Indian Murders which documents how criminals killed indians and made it look like alcohol-related accidents in many cases.
The Osage called the era the "Reign of Terror." Ward Churchill says that the troubles at Pine Ridge were a "'reign of terror' fostered by the Bureau [FBI] on Pine Ridge."
Churchill's anti-FBI article is posted on a site that keeps track of the words of people who have worked for the release of Leonard Peltier, a criminal convicted of the murder of two FBI agents http://www.noparolepeltier.com
The site does not associate itself with Churchill's writings but keeps them for purposes of documentation.
Now that Churchill is shown to be a fraud who promoted his career by claiming to be Indian and who plagiarized other people's paintings, can we accept his "scholarship" which asserts that the FBI are terrorists?
I was pretty shocked to see that Churchill's young, college-educated wife was run over by a car while lying "dead drunk" in the middle of the road. Churchill blames this on her post-traumatic stress from being an Indian victim of white repression. Churchill is divorced from two wives and a third is "road kill." Leah Kelly's accidental death sounds a little suspicious to me.
Here is a news report about the death of Churchill's wife: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2709008,00.html
Here is his own (rather wierd) account:http://www.darknightpress.org/index.php?i=news&c=recent&view=6&long=1
Churchill writes: "There were reasons why that young, beautiful, incredibly promising and catastrophically drunk Ojibwe woman was running barefoot down the middle of the road that night."
Churchill blames her death on the white man's repression. He got that right.
After you read the above, go to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1351673/posts?page=38 for a fuller picture.
Bump for a later read.
I'm thinkin' that Ward Churchill, himself, has got the gift o' blarney.
Osage Indians ~ There's a doctrine found in an old law case named after an ancestor of mine that served to perfect them in their title to oil wells. That's why I'm always on the watch for criminal elements preying on Indians.
Look, you're onto something here. A guy who would flip and copy somebody else's prints, then sell them as his own, would do anything wouldn't he.
Did you check out Churchill and Lee Hill for their Vlach Romany affiliations? Professor Buhley nailed down that problem several decades ago ~ the con-men and Gypsies who actually followed the Indians West from the payoff at Chicago in the 1850s and who are still trying to bust their way into the tribes. Buhley said there were thousands of these people at that time. Over 20,000 of them tried to get their names added to the Dawes Rolls!
Then there's the dope trade ~ undoubtedly Churchill had more of his fair share of potential connections into the circles that handle the more exotic mushrooms, cacti and herbs (238 of them known to be hallucinogenic in North America!).
His presence on the CU campus becomes more and more troubling, particularly as it begins to illuminate that crazy Barry woman as well (formerly of Chairman of the Civil Rights Commission she was on the CU governing board that hired Churchill).
Intersting idea...
miigwech nibwaachawiyin
Can you tell what that means? I assume it is an Indian language.
Here is a news report about the death of Churchill's wife: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2709008,00.html
Here is his own (rather wierd) account:http://www.darknightpress.org/index.php?i=news&c=recent&view=6&long=1
This is giving me the creeps.
Very interesting and I have been watching this for several days. In his essay she was running down the street. The guy who hit her says she was lying in the road. Whose account is the true one. And a blood alcohol of .35, why I don't believe she was even sitting with a level that high.
Everyone is arguing liberal vs conservative, but this isn't about that at all. Go to
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1351673/posts?page=38 for a fuller picture.
Everything is snapping into place in my head, and I feel really scared.
Anyone out there with a connect to lexus/nexus care to try the term "gagios" and Mr. Churchill?
You read the dark knight article, long read, and then the Post article didn't you? I hope you read it in the morning, not nighttime!
Since Ward Churchill is a known liar, I think we should take the testimony of the man who hit her. .35 blood alcohol is a lot of alcohol for a young girl. At .35 she was between "many lose consciousness" and "most lose consciousness; some die."
Ward Churchill claims she was running down the street.
Below are the effects of increasing blood alcohol level:
.02 MELLOW FEELING. SLIGHT BODY WARMTH. LESS INHIBITED.
05 NOTICEABLE RELAXATION. LESS ALERT. LESS SELF-FOCUSED. COORDINATION IMPAIRMENT BEGINS.
.08 DRUNK DRIVING LIMIT. DEFINITE IMPAIRMENT IN COORDINATION AND JUDGMENT.
.10 NOISY. POSSIBLE EMBARRASSING BEHAVIOR. MOOD SWINGS. REDUCTION IN REACTION TIME.
.15 IMPAIRED BALANCE AND MOVEMENT. CLEARLY DRUNK.
.30 MANY LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS
.40 MOST LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS; SOME DIE.
.50 BREATHING STOPS. MANY DIE.
Yes. I posted them on post #9.
I already get that pure evil feeling from what I have reserched about Ward Churchill; this is confirming my suspicions even more.
It's Anishinaabemowin language ( Ojibwe )
Basically I said that Leah...was sick, and drank to try to abandon ( run away from ) Ward.......
Not, like Churchill has tried to say, that she drank to quiet some inner ghosts...caused by the "White Man".
Megwech, Iw, bama pi mine gwi kigdomen. ( FRegards....we will talk again..)
See my post #14. I don't think you can run when you have a .35 blood alcohol level.
.35 is a near-death experience.
Alcohol-related patterns of domestic violence, spousal abandonment and child neglect or abuse, unheard of in traditional settings, have become endemic facts of contemporary native life
"Unheard of in traditional settings"?
He must not get out much.
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Most Indians may have died in the 1500s from disease, and their cultures were basically demolished then because practically everyone died. Then Indians were moved around a lot. Many intermarried and millions of Americans are partially descended from the first Americans.
I don't think we really know much about family life in Indian traditional communities before that.
They didn't have alcohol. of course.
When Churchill writes "Alcohol-related patterns of domestic violence, spousal abandonment and child neglect or abuse, unheard of in traditional settings, have become endemic facts of contemporary native life" he is really slandering Indians, his dead wife, and his dead wife's family.
He is basically saying that his wife killed herself because her dysfunctional culture and family made her crazy. Her family does NOT agree that she had the issues Churchill claims she had.
He has to establish that she was mentally ill so that people don't wonder how she got into the road while she was probably in an alcoholic comma.
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