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It Is A Written Fact That Our People Had Warned Of All These Consequences Of Wrongful Environmental Behavior Since Our Very First Contact With The Non-indians. There Was A Time When Our Elders Used To Say To Us, "you Can't Function With One Foot In The White Man's Canoe And One Foot In The Indian's Canoe." With These Extreme Environmental Concerns Taking Place On The Earth, Mankind Is All In The Same Boat. Or Better Be.

I Would Like To Say, Historically, From The Very Beginning, Our People Have Time And Again Expressed The Need For People To Live In Harmony With The Creator, The Mother Earth, Fellow Man, And Respect Our Brother's Vision. In The Past And The Present, We Have Been Respon-sible For The Greatest Gains; Cultivated Foods And Medicines; Democratic Government, And Many Other Areas Of Concern.

I Was Like So Many Others Passion-ately Involved In Trying To Bring Those Truths To The World's Attention. We Did Our Very Best To Peacefully Do That. The City, State, And Federal Governments Did Their Very Best To Quell Our Efforts. They Were Used To Using Heavy-handed Tactics To Silence Us.

I Think Only A Massive Public Outcry Would Result In My Receiving Any Measure Of Justice.

To Heal Will Require Real Effort, And A Change Of Heart, From All Of Us. To Heal Means That We Will Begin To Look Upon One Another With Respect And Tolerance Instead Of Prejudice, Distrust And Hatred. We Will Have To Teach Our Children-as Well As Ourselves-to Love The Diversity Of Humanity....we Can Do It. Yes, You And I And All Of Us Together. Now Is The Time. Now Is The Only Possible Time. Let The Great Healing Begin.