Posted on 10/22/2012 8:42:05 AM PDT by Borges
A legend in his own eyes and the world doesn’t change one whit.
Rest in peace Russell Means
Something happened to him after he got in with the Dennis Banks / A.I.M. / ultraleft crowd. He lost some of that good heart, but not all of it. They never could turn him into the same type of America hating scum which they were.
I'm glad I knew Russell before he got in with that crowd.
Note to self...when confronted by a health crisis do *not* seek help from an OsamaObamaCare death panel or embrace traditional American Indian remedies.
I’m hoping that Obama will be the last of the Bohicans after this election.
I sure liked him in the role of Uncas. Perhaps that was a glimpse of the non-political man?
Despite the other comments, I would add that others who knew him in the early years agree with you. I know a man who spent several years in the early 70s teaching sports programs on the reservation would would be the first to do so. It is possible for good people to engage in bad politics - Sen. George McGovern was another example. It is sad when radical elements turn either side into a hate-fest, and worth recognizing those who manage to some extent to remain above that level. RIP.
lol
***...a former American Indian Movement activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee,****
I remember those days. After they took over and burned the church at Wounded Knee, lots of bearded hippies joined them for a while.
One of the Indians was photographed holding an AK-47 years before they were allowed to be imported in the US.
The problems spread clear to Farmington NM where there was lots of trouble when the Fairchild Plant at Gallup had a layoff and the Indians then occupied the building in protest. Some local Navajos were oppposed to the outsider Indians coming into the area causing problems while others joined in the takeover. There was a riot that year 1974 during a parade in downtown Farmington caused by the Indians.
The Oklahoma authorities stopped a possible take over of YALE, Oklahoma when they arrested several armed non local Indians who claimed they were only going elk hunting. Elke hunting in the middle of Oklahoma in the summer? I don’t think so as there were no elk within several hundred miles.
Many other areas also had Indian problems that year with several whites killed for no reason.
Will they bury his heart at Wounded Knee?..............
There were also the Indians who took over Alcatraz for awhile. That was interesting.
“Something happened to him after he got in with the Dennis Banks / A.I.M. / ultraleft crowd. “
That’s what ‘community organizers’ do...........
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