Radio Free Alcatraz 1970-01-13; Radio Free Alcatraz

Can you remember that you have. An. Annual soul in the song that we've been. Right Thing This is John Trudell inviting you to Indian land radio Indian land Alcatraz Island on behalf of the Indians of all tribes. The afternoon I was reading a newsletter from Canada from Vancouver. The name of it's the NAR an AARP newsletter which which is the native Alliance for red power out of Vancouver British Columbia. And we seem to be

having problems in the United States today. Indian people. So I'd like to use this. This newsletter read some of the articles from the newsletter giving information on them to show that our Canadian The Canadian people Indian people in Canada are basically in the same boat we are. The first article is on the art of stealing human rights. And these articles were to are taken from a speech by give given by Jerry Campbell at a conference on human rights it's a to be reserved in New Brunswick. And in this speech Mr Gamble warned the native people about how the Canadian society goes about taking away the human rights of Native people. He states that the art of denying Indians their human rights has been refined to a science following list of commonly used techniques will be helpful in burglar proofing your reserves and your rights to gain the Indians cooperation.

It is much easier to steal someone's human rights if you can do it with his own cooperation. So to do this make him of non-person human rights or for people convince Indians their ancestors were savages that they were pagan and that Indians are drunkards. Make them orders of the government. Make a legal distinction as in the Indian Act between Indians and persons. Write history books that tell the story. Convince Dan then that he should be patient that these things take time. Tell him that we are making progress and that progress takes time. Make him believe that things are being done for his own good. Tell him that you are sure that after he has experienced your laws and actions that he will realize how good they have been. Tell the Indian Yes to take a little of the bad in order to enjoy the benefits you are conferring on him. Get some Indian people to do the dirty work. There are there are always those who will act for you to the disadvantage of their own people. Just give them a little honor and praise. Consult the Indian but do not act on the basis of what you hear tell the Indian he has a voice

and go through the motions of listening and interpret what you have heard to suit your own needs. Insist that the Indian goes through the proper channels. Make the channels in the procedure so difficult that he won't bother to do anything when he discovers that the proper channel when he discovers what the proper channels are and becomes proficient at the procedures change make the Indian believe that you are working hard for him putting in much overtime and at a great sacrifice and in and imply that he should be appreciative. This is the ultimate in skills and stealing human rights when you obtain the thanks of your victim. Allow a few individuals to make the grade and then point to them as examples. Say that the hard workers and the good Indians have made it and that therefore it is a person's own fault if he doesn't succeed. Appeal to the Indian sense of fairness and tell him that even though things are pretty bad it is not right for him to make strong protest. Keep the argument going on his form of

protest and avoid talking about the real issue refused to deal with him until he is while he is protesting. Take all the fire out of his efforts encourage the Indian to take his case to court. This is very expensive. Take lots of time and is a very and is very safe because the laws are stacked against you. The court ruling will defeat the Indians cause but makes him think he has obtained justice. Make Indian believe that things could be worse and that instead of complaining about the loss of human rights to be grateful for the human rights we do have in fact convince him that to attempt to regain a right he has lost is likely to jeopardize the rights that he still has. Set yourself up as a protector of the Indians human rights and then you can choose to act on only those violations you wish to act upon. By getting successful action on a few minor violations of human rights you can point to the US as examples of your devotion to his cause. Pretend that the reason for the loss of human rights is for some other reason than that the NDA that the person is an Indian tell him that some of

your best friends are Indians and that is loss of rights is because of his housekeeping his drinking or his clothing. She improves in these areas it will be necessary for you to adopt another technique of stealing his rights. Make the situation much more complicated than is necessary. Tell the Indian you will have to take a survey to find out just how many other Indians are being discriminated against. I or a group of professors to make a year long research project. Also let India know that when all the Indians in Canada can make up their minds about just what they want as a group then you will act play one group special situation against another group's wishes. Select a very limited alternatives neither of which has much merit and then tell the Indian that he indeed has a choice. Ask For instance if he could or would rather have council elections in June or December instead of asking if he wants them at all. Convinced the Indian that the leaders who are the most beneficial and powerful are dangerous and not to be trusted. I simply lock them up on some charge like

driving with no lights or refused to listen to the real leaders and spend much time with the weak ones. Keep the people split from their leaders by sewing room or attempt to get the best leaders in the high paying jobs where they will have to keep quiet to keep their paychecks coming in. Speak of the common good. Tell the Indian that you can't consider yourselves when there is a whole nation to think of. Tell him that he can't think only of himself. For instance in regard to hunting rights. Tell him we have to think of all the hunters for the sporting good industry or remove rights so gradually that people don't realize what has happened until it is too late. Again in regard to hunting rights first restrict a geographical area where hunting is permitted then cut the trees into certain times of the year then cut the limits down gradually then insist on licensing and then Indians will be on the same grounds as white sportsman. Rely on your reason and logic instead of rightness and morality. Give thousands of reasons for things but do not get trapped into arguments about what is right.

And hold a conference on human rights. Have everyone blow off steam and tension and go on home feeling that things are well in hand. This is the way Mr Gamble has stated that the Canadian government is destroying the Canadian Indians many of the points he brings out are they sound awfully familiar I've seen them someplace else and. Have seen these methods in action before. And in our National Alliance for Red Power has an eight point program for the free for the betterment of Canadian Indians. And it goes that we will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny. Therefore we want power to determine the destiny of our reservations and communities. Gaining power in our reservations of communities and power over our lives will entail the abolishment of the Indian Act and the destruction of the Colonial Office. Indian Affairs branch

I think that is equivalent to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. And this racist government has robbed cheated and brutalized us and is responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of our people. We feel under no obligation to support this government in the form of taxation. Therefore we want an end to the collection of money from us in the form of taxes. The history of Canada was written by the oppressors the invaders of this land. Their lies are perpetuated in the educational system of today by failing to expose the true history of this day decadent Canadian society the schools facilitate our continued oppression. Therefore we want an education that teaches us our true history and exposes the racist values of this society in this country Indian medicine represent 3 percent of the population yet we can't can't constitute approximately 60 percent of the inmates inmates in prisons and jails. Therefore we want an immediate end to the injustice in

unjust arrest and harassment of our people by the racist police. And when brought before the courts of this country the red men cannot hope to get a fair hearing from White judges jurors and court officials. Therefore we want natives to be tried by a jury of people chosen from native communities or people of their racial heritage. Also we want freedom for those of our brothers and sisters now being held unjustly in the prisons of this country. The treaties pertaining to fishing hunting trapping and property rights and special privileges have been broken by this government in some cases our people did not engage in treaties with the government and have not been compensated for the loss of their land. Therefore for those of our people who have not made treaties we want fair compensation. Also we want the government to honor the statues statutes as laid down in these treaties as being supreme and not to be infringed upon by any legislation whatsoever. The large industrial companies and corporations that have raped the natural resources of this country are responsible along with their government for the extermination of the resources upon which we

depend for food clothing and shelter. Therefore we want an immediate end to this exploitation and compensation from these thieves. We want the government to give foreign aid to the areas comprising the Indian nation so that we can start desperately needed programs concerning housing agriculture and industrial cooperatives. We want to develop our remaining resources in the interest of the redmen not in the interest of the right corporate elite. The white power structure has used every possible method to destroy our spirit in the will to resist. They have divided us into status and non status American and Canadian medicine. And in the end we are fully aware of their divide and rule tactic and its effect on our people. Red Power is the spirit to resist red power is pride in what we are. Red Power is love for our people. Red Power is our coming together to fight for liberation. Red Power is now in this. This was taken from the NAR to Slipknot newsletter in Canada.

And I would say that the Canadian government is having their problems right now too I gather from a lot of this material that these some of these Canadian Indian people are very militant also in their demands their demands are just and many of the things that they state in this newsletter that only happen in Canada they happen here. And I for one can sympathize with what they do say. Many of the things they say. I've seen it all happen here. And that we want. We on Alcatraz Indians of all tribes want to want to want the people in Canada to know that we're behind them 100 percent in their fight for equality economic equality racial equality and right to be Indian. This is what we are trying to do here so we very fully understand what they are going through.

I had always been under the impression I don't know that much about how the Canadian government deals with their Indian peoples on their reserves. But I had been under the impression that things were better but then it just goes to show my ignorance about Indian Affairs. I don't know everything about what is going on either. And let me see now this is just about time. Just about out of time. I would like to being as I did read the newsletter from Canada. I would like to mention that next week I believe it will be Tuesday evening that we will be doing a program with. The Canadian Canadian Broadcasting company's Indian magazine program with Johnny. Yes no. And Charlie Daniels who are the host and hostess of this program and we will be speaking with various Indians from the Canada area. We will be

doing this live and I believe it hasn't been definitely set yet but the tentative working schedule for that is next Tuesday evening. And that's. One of the reasons I wanted to read this letter from the Canadian side. Of the border just to kind of become familiar a little with what the Canadian Indians are going through. And it's 7:30 so I guess it's time. For me to say good evening. And so behalf on the behalf of the Indians of all tribes this is John Trudeau Wishing you a very pleasant good evening far.