The New England Committee to Defend Palestine acknowledges its presence on the land of the
indigenous people of the "North America."
Comparative Maps: Palestine and Turtle Island ("North America")
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Ward Churchill's February 8, 2005 speech at the University of Colorado. Excerpt:
" . . . And I thought about my brother Russell Means, in 1982, when we were engaged in a
physical occupation of a piece of ground outside Rapids City . . . That was 1982, that was the
time of the Battle of Beirut, and they had the PLO fighters sealed in and they were bombarding
Beirut, and they were gonna kill Arafat, OK? They had a quid pro quo arrangement where he
could go for sanctuary if he could leave, but no one could take him. And Russ convened a
press conference and he said something that had to be pretty close to this: the Palestinians of
North America offer sanctuary to the American Indians of the Middle East. We have that
relationship; those dots are connected."
"For America to Live, Europe Must Die"
– Speech given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand
people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills
International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is
[said to be] Russell Means's most famous speech.
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Autobiography of Malcolm X, chapter 4:
"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the
original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were
large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had
already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward,
blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only
nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous
population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble
crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or
feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our
drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect
the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a
few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations."