Our movement was covered in the Billings Gazette:
Chiefs praised for their fight for freedom
By BECKY SHAY
Of The Gazette Staff
LAME DEER – There was a tremor of emotion in Tim Lame Woman’s voice as he stood at the foot of the graves of the Northern Cheyenne chiefs who led their people out of captivity and home to Montana.
The atrocities the American government brought down on the Cheyenne when they were exiled “hurts like it was yesterday,” he said.
“It was a complete attempted genocide of our people by this country, by America,” Lame Woman said.
During a memorial observance Wednesday at the graves of Chief Dull Knife and Chief Little Wolf… [Read More]
Russell Means in Lame Deer:
Activist urges Indians to keep culture
American Indian Movement founder visits reservation
By BECKY SHAY
Of The Gazette Staff
LAME DEER – American Indian activist Russell Means brought his message of freedom to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation this week.
Means started his talk Wednesday with a story about visiting Mohawk country in the northeast United States. A group of blonde-haired, blue-eyed children ran up to him and started talking in Mohawk, which Means doesn’t speak.
One of the children looked up at the brown-skinned man with his long black braids and said, “Aren’t you Indian?” Means said “yes,” and the child asked him, “Why don’t you talk Indian?” [Read More, also check out the photo gallery]
The Northern Cheyenne (Tsisistas and Suhtaio) Nation Camp Freedom was established on Medicine Wolf Paradise Acres on January 30, 2008. Let the message of freedom spread!
