The Indians don't recognize legitimacy of the US president

The life of modern North American Indians is reported absolutely insufficiently in mass media of the USA and other western countries in many respects. As a rule, the huge share of the information is made by the pseudo-scientific researches which do not have something in common with the validity. The Great Leader of Dakota tribe tells about why and how it occurs, who has to name himself conditionally as Kagakhi that thereby not only to reveal himself prematurely but also not to put the Indian tribes under the blow of the American “democracy” …

But before to call him upon, it is necessary to say what has preceded my conversations with the leader almost of all American Indian tribes. By the nature of the activity, I was in the Indian reservations for many times. When I have understood that I will never manage to know all truth with the certificate of the journalist which the modern Indians hide rather inventively and carefully, it was necessary even to have the counterfeit passport and to become the hunter for some years, being in style of heroes of the novels of Fenimore Cooper and Mayne Reid in literal sense.

Already completely having accustomed with the life in mountains, prairies and deserts, I have felt, as the hearts of the Indians have started to reveal, these proud, unbeaten and direct children of the nature till now. Only after seven years, the old Indian, whose name I can't say, has mentioned the name of Kagakhi in one of the conversations. In four years my first meeting with him has taken place and there were many such meetings. They have laid down in a basis of several interviews which I vainly tried to place in the USA and Canada.

Fortunately, the portal “The world and we” has accepted my offer and conditions, thereby having given really invaluable support to radical citizens of the United States of America who are one of the most oppressed nations of the world. So, my first conversation with the Great Leader …

- The USA has got used to name itself as a democracy and freedom stronghold all over the world … Dear Kagakhi, we have agreed with you that we will begin our conversation of that the government of the USA has got used to be proud before the whole world - from ostensibly absolutely exemplary American voting right …

- My people consider such statements as vicious lie. However, the palefaces were not notable for the honesty. Only in 1924 we became as if the lawful citizens of the USA and have got the political rights, in particular the vote. For example, the Afro-Americans - the man have received the vote for 54 years earlier and the women of the USA for 4 years accordingly. But, despite the Law of citizenship of 1924 year, the Indians, both earlier and now can't participate in elections all the same.

Firstly, this question was regulated by the legislation of the states which simply didn’t admit us to voting. And only in the sixties of the last century they have promised us once again that we will use the voting right in full, but, have deceived as always – they have simply declared, but actually the possibility to vote for the Indian is actually narrowed down. The Indians were deceived and are deceived till now, the evil can't live eternally. By the way, even to the middle of 90th of the XX century, the Bureau of population census didn't consider and didn't reflect in the data of statistics of the radical Americans’ voices at all. Therefore we don't recognize the legitimacy of elections in the territory of the USA, in particular, the presidential elections of the USA in 2008.

- And wherein the discrimination of the Indians on elections is particularly expressed?

- The palefaces always concerned the Indians as the people of the second sort. They perfectly understand that there is no excuse to how they have seized the land which belongs to us by the right of ancestors, how they have destroyed the hundred thousand and millions of the Indians. The policy of genocide was really spent on our lands for hundred years. And when I hear that there is an American democracy, I don't laugh, but grit teeth and hope that sometime the Great Manito will force the palefaces to repay all debts to us …

So-called “white” democracy has found the ways how to provide the democracy illusion. This way is the skillful administrative deprivation of voting right concerning the Indians. For example, the attendance of the radical Americans has made only 1 % on presidential elections of the USA in 2008…

According to official data, 37 % of the Indians haven't arrived on polling stations and haven't given the vote in day of carrying out of presidential election on November 4, 2008 because of departure. 27 % of the Indians had difficulties with transport and 23 % didn't know at all, where there were the polling stations.

These rules were created skillfully and artificially by the palefaces against us. According to the law of voting rights of 1965 the bilingual voting procedure is provided for the citizens of Spain, China, Japan, Philippines and Vietnam and only in several states such procedure is accessible to the radical Americans. That is, actually the invaders of our land have created the conditions for all exception even the possibility to vote for the Indians. The Ignorance of English language or illiteracy became an absolute obstacle for the Indians on a way of participation in elections. What else country of the world has the same?

- Do you consider that all it becomes purposely to deprive the Indians of last chances of revival?

It is definitely so. Having occupied our country, the white wolves think that we have forgotten everything. But it is not so. The Great Manito said that it is necessary to live in peace with friends and it is impossible to forgive the enemies.

- Are there any more ways to humiliate and remove the Indians from participation in public life of the USA?

- Certainly, there is a lot of such ways. One of them is an identification card or the electronic certificate of the citizen of the USA. There are two kinds of cards: federal and breeding, the last of which are accepted not on all polling stations, in view of the fact that this question is transferred in conducting of local self-government institutions of the USA. One more way to exclude us from process of elections is used: after all the considerable part of the Indians lives in the remote district and has no possibility simply to arrive to voting places. It is some other countries specially sent the helicopters that the inhabitants of the remote areas could fulfill the constitutional duty and vote. And the richest country of the world doesn't have money for us that we were able to do it.

The palefaces howl about the so-called Ukrainian “holodomor”, but only 900 thousand persons could enter in the memory book. More than 3, 5 million persons have died because of hunger in the USSR in 1932-1933, about 1 million from them died in Ukraine. And more than 10, 5 million persons have died in the USA in the same years in the presence of products. The USA remains a deathly silent about it… The white men don't love when they named as the executioners, but their essence doesn't change from it…

- Very few people remember now the well-known in due time revolt of the Indians under the direction of Leonard Peltier …

- Yes, it is so. I can’t say more, but this great leader is my relative. Very few people know that that great revolt had been risen after the demonstration of the well-known films of a film studio “DEFA” in the Indian reservations – “Sons of the Big Dipper”, “White wolves” and others. These films have been received by means of the German cultural-ethnographic society “Red circle” from GDR. 80 years before our tribe Dakota-Sioux slowly died before in the reservation Pine Ridge, but as it has turned out, one spark was enough that we left on a track of war and have dug out the tomahawk. By the way, FBI considers the display of these films in our reservations of one of the most successful operations of KGB and the East German investigation of “Stasi” till now … Well, let think so …

And the revolt has flashed in the reservation right after charitable viewing of the East German films. Dakota always understood that it is better to die in fight, than to perish slowly. Unfortunately, other tribes understand it too slowly. By the way, Raymond Yellow Thunder, the elderly and dear Indian, has been beaten to death in dancing club of the American Legion before the revolt. One more Sioux, Wesley Sick Ox Heart, is killed by knife blow in a breast. But paleface murderers have been justified.

Then the members of the American Indians Movement have written the manifesto of 20 requirements and the participants of a march “By the path of the broken contracts” have brought the manifesto to Washington, however the federal government hasn't deigned to accept the delegation of the red-skinned.
Sioux have grasped the building of the National bureau of the Indians affairs and kept it for seven days.

The leaders of our revolt became Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks and Russell Mine. They have managed to organize the defense very competently. Now nobody remembers, but Sioux and the Indians from allied tribes 70 (!) days beat off the attacks of heavy armor and helicopters of army of the USA. The Indians have put a symbol of our statehood on a central square — sacred tepee or wigwam. The ancient rituals, including “on invulnerability” of the red-skinned soldiers have been executed in it. Any of bullets hasn't got in tepee during the solving storm of settlement by the American army - it really has appeared to be impregnable.

The hundreds of our soldiers were lost in those fights and the exact quantity of victims from both sides is assiduously disappeared by special services of the USA till now though I can tell precisely that “the invincible” army of the USA has lost killed in 3 times more than we. The leader Dennis Banks disappeared in an underground for 10 years after revolt defeat and FBI has hunted beyond Leonard Peltier.

In June, 1976 the group of the policemen, the mixed parts of road patrol, judicial executors and soldiers of army divisions have surrounded the reservation Pine Ridge in hope to grasp Peltier. The soldiers have opened the chaotic shooting in the reservation. The snipers especially tried to “amaze” the group of the Indian guys and girls breaking from an environment on a slope of a hill. Many of them were lost. The country is good in which the people are shot as the deer … And who remembers this retaliatory operation now???

But the business of my leader lives: we have managed to receive the disks of films in which it is told about the heroic struggle of our ancestors against the pale barbarians. Our boys already know all truth. If not we, they defend the right of the Indians to freedom.


- Thank you for interesting conversation and, I hope, it will have the continuation...

- Great Manito, the Lord of Life told “I has given you everything, but what forces you to go shooting one after another?”. I want to say that the people of Dakota and Sioux, Choktos and Comanche, Shoshone and Omog, Huron and Delaware, Mokog and Ojibwe have forgotten nothing. And let the white leader in Washington always remembers it. This picture was drawn still by my grandfather when he was 14 years old and now our boys draw the same …