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By Rhonda Williams

I am so happy that the press finally displayed (in their photographs) Glen Morris’s true following ... “Young priviledged white college students!”

All of you lethal ignorant people who posted your racist comments about Indian people should know that Glenn Morris’ following comes from your communities not ours! Glenn Morris and Russel Means do NOT speak for the Indian people! One of the things that the majority of the Indian community in Denver is sick and tired of is ... that every time this Columbus farce of standing up for Indian rights goes on ... it is blamed on the Indian community, when it is really Glen Morris and his white priviledged wanna be following! There is a a custom in the Lakota culture ... the custom being that we turn our backs to people and situations that we don’t support and the majority of Indian people turned their backs on Glenn Morris and Russel Means a long time ago.

But every year the press reports that the Cop-lumbus Day protest was about the Indians vs. the American Italians and the Indian people have to deal with the racist repercussions for the rest of the year! (As demonstrated in some of the responses.)

Our children pay for Glen, Russell and their priviledged followers narcissist exploitation of Indian people! How many of you lethally ignorant racist people have truly paid attention to who participates in the Columbus Day protest? And those of you non-Indians who support the Indian community? For those who are just looking for an excuse to blame and put down the Indian people ... sooo sorry — you’ll have to search elsewhere to justify your hatred. We are not out in the streets making fools of our selves ... your next generation is!

And for those of you who are genuinely supporting the Indian people from your spirit through the Columbus Day protest photo ops ... if you really want to support the Indian people get active in our communities, support our real causes, the schools our children attend, etc., and find out whom we have designated as our leaders.

Something that is not advertised is that for the past three years there has been a conference in Denver on the same day as the Columbus Day protest “Ending Colonial Legacies” (the press is aware.) This conference was created by Indian people for Indian people in order to give the Indian people who are sick of Glenn Morris, Russel Means and Ward Churchhill’s exploitation of Indian people (just to get a good photo shot) in Denver an alternative to the protest.

Most importantly this conference was created to address the current issues impacting our elders, youth and women in the Indian nation. That’s where a majority of the Indian community was on Saturday. Not out on the streets making fools of themselves, recruiting homeless Indians, and surely not asking single-parent Indian mothers who are barely making it to go to jail. Indian people are strong, proud and intelligent, we take care of our own first ... we put the welfare of our elders, children and women first.

Of course Glen Morris would know this ... if he were truly Indian!

Rhonda Williams is a resident of Denver.

READER COMMENTS

YH,

By your logic only "real" Indians participates in such protests? Maybe the "real" Indians have better and more important issues ot deal with that an annual protest that has not made any leeway at all in ridding the day from the books. Maybe it's about time to change tactics. Afterall that's what any logical person (Indian or non) would do. Happened at the Big Horn and looked how that changed history.

It's good to hear that someone feels the same way I do about those three idiots. I've been voicing my opinion for years! These 3 idiots don't represent all Indians.

Morris, Means don't represent indians..

Just like LaRaza,Meccha, and all the "Latino"
activist don't represent the real hispanics.
These orginizations don't speak for us.

The only problem w/ your letter is that it is way too logical. Why put effort and money into fixing a problem when a few people can make a career off the suffering of many? I really do hope that eventually the press quits giving ink to those who scream loudest and start to give some publicity to those who are trying the hardest to fix what is broken.

Scathing. Well said.

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