January 21, 2010
I am writing to your network and/or affiliates to bring to your attention the disaster situation declared after a winter storm hit the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation. On December 24th over 36 inches of snow fell on the people of Pine Ridge and with the winds created blizzard conditions. Over 1000 people
were in need of foods and propane. Elders in need of dialysis care could not be reached, and the tribe was having to access level of needs, and were forced to
turn people away whose needs were not determined great enough. We have been networking with other natives around the world and trying to secure aid
to our people suffering right here on American soil.
The people of Ridge live in the most poorest conditions in the entire United States. There has been a disaster state declared for a month with no coverage
from major media and no response from this governments administration. It is our belief that this government and Obama used our people as an election
point and when disaster strikes once again our people are left to freeze and die off slowly.
We feel that so the government can keep itself in good graces with the free world they pretend we don't exist. Where is Fema for the indigenous people of
this land? For the last couple weeks we have to watch as this government and mainstream media goes to the aid of Haiti and ignores the people in its own
borders.
After Katrina the last thing we expected was for this President to allow something like to go on. It goes to show that there is a trend that this government
has been on for too many years to count. Similar to the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policies it has in the Military. If the world doesn't know about the struggles
they allow my people to be in then no one knows and no on will care.
It is shameful what this country is doing to the American Indian and yet they call this the land of the free. Well I'd ask one news truck to come to Pine
Ridge and show the world how well this country takes care of its own, or is this just the slow genocide pace they have us on so we will die off slowly or kill
ourselves. This is the continuing of an effort in ethic cleansing and the genocide of the indigenous people of this land.
Written by:
Raymond Lessert Martin
360-481-4792
Contact me lets talk.
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