Greetings brothers, supporters, my brothers. I know I’ve probably said this, or something like this, many times. Every time I say it, it feels like the first time. From the bottom of my soul, I thank you for your support.
Living here, year after year, day after day, week after week, plays on the concept of time and thought processes beyond what you can imagine.
Every day, I have to say a prayer in the morning, so that my spirit and the spirit of our people.
The struggle of the American Indian Movement, which is the struggle of all of us, is never over for me. They go on, week after week, month after month, year after year.
When I say it, sometimes I think I might be a bit sensitive, but my love for my people and the love supporters have shown me all these years is what keeps me alive.
I did not read the letter with my mind. I read with my heart.
Prisons are another example of the treatment and policies our people have faced since the arrival of the first Europeans.
I’m just an ordinary person and I come from a society of living and living, like all of us.
But we have had to live in survival conditions since Columbus landed.
There is nothing about my case, nothing about the Constitution, which is the agreement between the American people and the government, that warrants my continued imprisonment.
They have historically imprisoned or killed our people, taken our land and resources. Any time the law is in our favor they ignore the law or change the law to benefit their agenda.
After getting what they want, the next generation, some politicians will apologize.
They have never discussed sincerely with us unless we have something they wanted and could not take, or we are ashamed before the world, or we are some sort of opposition.
The opposition has always been the main reason for making an agreement with us.
I could go on and on about the persecution of our people and go on and on about my case, but the United Nations said.
That the United States has kept me locked up because I am an American Indian.
The only thing that sets me apart from other American Indians who have been mistreated, dispossessed, or imprisoned by our government is all the court cases or records in my case. Violations of my constitutional rights have been proven in court. The fabrication of every piece of evidence used to convict me has been proven in court. The United Nations itself, made up of 193 countries, called for my release, declaring that I was a political prisoner.
In my case as a political prisoner there should not be an exchange of prisoners. The exchange that must be made is from a policy of injustice to a policy of justice.
It doesn’t matter what color and ethnicity you are. Black, red, white, yellow, brown – if they can do it for me, they can do it for you.
The Constitution of the United States hangs by a thread.
again. I want to say, from my heart to your heart, most sincerely – try your best to educate your children. Teach them to defend themselves physically, mentally, and spiritually. Make them understand our history.
Teach them to plant a food forest or any plant that will support them in the future.
Again, from my heart to you, plant a tree for me.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.
Doksha,
Leonard Peltier