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[source: NativeNews; Sun, 06 Feb 2000 09:29:54]

>Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 06:15:37 -0800
>To: ishgooda@tdi.net
>From: Tehaliwaskenhas-Bob Kennedy
>Subject: Peace Bridge Protest
>
>
>Native group protests at Peace Bridge for release of
>FBI agents' killer
>
>FORT ERIE, Ont. (CP) - More than 200 natives crossed the Peace Bridge into
>Canada on Saturday, protesting what they
>say is unfair treatment of aboriginals on both sides of the border.
>
>Led by a ceremonial drum corps, members of the North American Native
>Warriors marched from the FBI building in Buffalo,
>N.Y., to Fort Erie.
>
>The group said the protest focused on the case of Leonard Peltier, 55, who
>is serving two life sentences for the murders of
>FBI special agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler in 1975.
>
>"We want justice," Grandpa Bear, national director for the group, said in
>an interview from the bridge.
>
>The agents were killed after shooting broke out with a group of native
>campers at the troubled Pine Ridge Reservation in
>South Dakota.
>
>It was the climax of months of brutality and conflict between native
>factions that had plagued the community for months.
>
>Peltier was convicted two years later, after Canadian officials allowed his
>extradition from Alberta partly based on an affidavit
>from a woman later shown to be mentally unfit.
>
>Supporters also say the FBI intimidated witnesses and withheld documents
>and that his extradition was unfair.
>
>"There are a lot of issues," said protester Doreen Dagga. "Basically, (we
>want) the freedom of Leonard Peltier."
>
>In October, Justice Minister Anne McLellan said a judicial review had
>concluded the extradition was proper.
>
>Organizers said Saturday's protest was also in support of Dudley George, a
>native man shot and killed by an Ontario
>Provincial Police officer during a native protest occupation of a
>provincial park in Ipperwash, Ont., in 1995.
>
>The officer was convicted of criminal negligence causing death in 1997 and
>given a two-year suspended sentence, but is
>currently appealing the verdict.
>
>Regards,
>Bob Kennedy
>Turtle Island Native Network
>Your Aboriginal News and Information Network
>on the Internet
>http://www.turtleisland.org
>Winner - 1999  Aboriginal Media Arts Award.
>
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>Tehaliwaskenhas - G.R.(Bob) Kennedy
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