[Announce-DAN] Garry Rowland, Akicita Itanscan Hunger Strikers Need Urgent Response

[Doc Rosen <docrosen@dr.com>]

press release
news analysis by David Seals

Rapid City, South Dakota  -  Garry Rowland, Akicita Itanscan of the
Mato Paha
Okolokicye, and the traditional Lakota/Dakota/Nakota [LDN] OCETI
SAKOWIN
Council, has requested that all AIM chapters be contacted for support
of his
Hunger Strike for traditional rights, now in its 8th day in the
Pennington
County [Rapid City] jail. Garry is a long-time veteran of AIM for 30
years.

Anyone who knows Garry, a fullblood Lakota/Cheyenne, 49 of Wounded
Knee
District, knows he is deadly serious when he says, "I have staked
myself to
the ground. I know the death-songs, and I sang one [the morning of
January 26
when the Fast and hunger strike began]. I am ready to die."

"Any day is a good day to die."

"During the Ghost Dance Uprising, they tried to take everything away,
and
they're doing the same to us [here in jail]." He and 6 other warriors
are on
Hunger Strike because they have been denied adequate medical
treatment. 2 of
the warriors have been put in isolation, and we can't get in to talk
to
anyony of them. Among other atrocities Garry is being denied his
cardiac
medicine unless he pays for it himself, since he had a quadruple
bypass
surgery 10 years ago, and of course he can't begin to afford the
outrageous
prescription costs. Also, Darren Brings Plenty almost bled to death
and the
cops only then, when he was found in a pool of blood, rushed him in a
cop car
to the emergency room of the regional hospital.

This of course is only the latest in a series of civil rights
violations in
South Dakota, including the murders of Indians in Rapid Creek, at
White Clay,
Mobridge, Sisseton, and recently the collusion of Senator Daschle and
Governor Janklow is recommending against a pardon for Leonard Peltier.

Garry sees this as the time to stand up finally for Traditional
Government
and our ancient Spiritual Freedom, both being denied by the criminal
american
and christian establishments. As Time Lame Deer said in a call of
support
from the Northern Cheyenne Nation, "It's repression every day here,
from
morning to night on the Concentration Camps. I can't understand why
AIM and
the Elders don't just declare Traditional Government. All we gotta do
is do
it!"

This latest struggle in a lifetime of great work for the people began
on
christmas day when the racist Rapid City Journal ran a cliched mugshot
of
Garry on the obituary page, quoting the cops saying he was a fugitive
and
"should not be approached, as he is armed and dangerous." What was his
crime?
Failure to appear in US Court on a charge of marijuana possession!

He had protested the jurisdiction of the Feds, and on the night of
January 3
he and his family were stopped by armed FBI, BIA, and US Marshalls at
Red
Shirt Table where they were on their way to Buddy Red Bow's grave to
do a
honoring Pipe Ceremony. He and his family were brutally thrown to the
cold
ground and road at gunpoint.

This was on sovereign Oglala Lakota territory. Garry was not busted
for
possession of marijuana - he was busted for being a warrior, a
traditional
warrior, standing up for the sovereignty and jurisdiction of his
Nation
according to the Treaties, and for being a leader of the warriors, the
Akitcita Director of the Bear Butte Council, according to the 1851
Fort
Laramie Treaty with the Confederacy including Cheyennes, Arapahoes,
Crow, and
Mandan among others.

Garry is an uncompromising opponent of the Wounded Knee National
Memorial
planned by Daschle and some of the IRA Tribal Council people, on his
home
land. He is opposed to the countryfication of KILI Radio, originally
organized by AIM in 1983 as a traidtional Lakota Voice of the Nation,
and the
continuing CIA presence of his non-Native program manager Tom Casey.

Garry and I have been down many good red roads together, and I know he
is
deadly serious about this Warrior Hunger Strike. Many of us here are
heartbroken that the genocide and hatred of americans has gotten so
bad that
we are driven to such desperation.

We ask for your Prayers and I'm sure Garry in his remaining few days
will
have a few more messages about strategy to Renew our People.

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contact to protest -

Mayor Jim Shaw, Rapid City
300 6th St, rapid city, SD 57701
605-394-4110
mayor@c...

Senator Tom Daschle [federal jurisdiction issue, and protest denail
recommendation on Peltier Pardon, as well]
1313 W. Main St  rapid city, SD 57701
605-348-7551
1-800-424-9094
web_comments@d...

Sheriff De Glasgow,
300 Kansas City St. rapid city, SD 57701
605-394-2665

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