MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
26 August 2013
Contact: Dorothy Ninham, Wind Chases the Sun,
Press Conference with
Regard to Leonard Peltier International Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous
Human Rights
WHEN: September 4, 2013, at 10:00
a.m.
WHERE: National AIM
Interpretative Center, 1113 East
Franklin Avenue, Suite 3210A Minneapolis ,
MN 55404
SPEAKERS: Dennis Banks, Bill
Means, and Clyde Bellecourt of the American Indian Movement Grand Governing
Council; and Dorothy Ninham, former Oneida Nation Judge and Director of event
sponsor Wind Chases The Sun, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to
Indigenous issues
"We have an oral
tradition. In this way, the stories
about our 500 years of oppression have been passed down through the
generations. Now, we have the means to record
that history and share it with the world.
The Leonard Peltier International Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous
Human Rights will tell our stories with a focus on the last 40 years, "
said Dorothy Ninham, founder and director of Wind Chases the Sun.
Details regarding the Leonard Peltier International
Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous Human Rights--an event scheduled for
2-4 October on the Oneida Nation Reservation in Oneida ,
Wisconsin --will be presented during a press
conference to be held on September 4, 2013, in Minneapolis
The
purpose of the historic, public tribunal is to digitally document first-hand
witness accounts of 40 years of malfeasance in Indian Country, and the
continuing struggles of Indigenous Peoples.
Issues will include but are not limited to fishing rights, the
sterilization of Indigenous women, extreme poverty, theft of tribes' natural
resources, environmental issues and their impact on Indian reservations, the
horrific rate of suicides among Native children, and the wrongful conviction of
Leonard Peltier (specifically the events that led up to the June 26, 1975,
incident at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and the effects
on survivors of this period).
All Indigenous Peoples are invited to attend. Tribes are encouraged to send a delegation of
tribal elders to participate.
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