[Pnews] Leonard Peltier - The War for Survival

[Prisoner News]

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/22/the-war-for-survival/

The War for Survival

by Leonard Peltier - November 22, 2018

Well here it is, sorry to say, another year, and I’m still writing to 
you from a prison cell. I am still in pain from my illnesses with no 
knowledge of whether I will ever get treatments for them. But I’m alive 
and still breathing hoping, wishing, praying for not just my pains, but 
for all Native Nations and the People of the World who care and have 
positive feelings about what is happening to Mother Earth and against 
the evils committed by Wasi’chu in their greed for HER natural resources 
.

It doesn’t seem as if any changes for the good or safety of Mother Earth 
will happen soon. But the good-hearted People are fighting back, and 
some good People are winning in the struggles to beat back some of this 
evil and to make THE Changes, the safety networks, we need for our 
grandchildren and great grandchildren so that they will be able to live 
happy successful lives, at least decent lives, that most of the poor 
underprivileged in my generation never got to experience or enjoy in our 
short lives.

So, I sit back and look at the world, and I wonder if I will ever get to 
see the outside world again, free from this prison cell? At 74 it is not 
looking too good for that to happen. But I keep my hopes alive and pray 
as hard as I can that it will happen. If not, when they bury me I want 
to be laid to rest face down and with a note pinned to my ass with the 
words in large bold letters, ‘KISS MY ASS!!’… just in case someone wants 
to study my bones years from now :)!!

On a more pleasant issue one of my grandaughters Ashley is in college at 
University of Arizona, Flagstaff, and she wants to be a Medicine Woman! 
How awesome is that? My baby, a doctor! Wow! How proud am I! You would 
not believe just how much I am! I could use a little help now and then 
for her; don’t send it to me, but send it to ILPDC earmarked for her use 
ONLY!! She is going on a long hard journey, so she will need help now 
and then. One day, if she continues her studies to be a Medicine Woman, 
I know things can change as time goes by, but if she makes it, she will 
be an enormous help to Native Nations’ hospitals.

My friend Harvey Arden passed yesterday on Saturday, November 17, 2018 
5:20 P:M. He was a very good and kind man who loved Native People and 
the poor and sick. We are all going to miss him. I hope he has a good 
safe journey to the Spirit World, and I hope our Relatives will all be 
there to greet him with open arms; that would be very pleasing to him. 
See you soon, my Kola.

Politically we are finally making gains in Congress; two great Native 
ladies made it in the House of Representatives! They are Shanice Davids, 
Ho Chunk of Wisconsin, for Kansas and Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, for 
New Mexico. On Pine Ridge my nephew Julian Bear Runner made it as 
President of the great Lakota Nation! I’m hearing more states are doing 
away with Columbus Day! Hell, we may just win the War for Survival yet!)

My last thoughts on this day, that we Native People call a Day of 
Mourning, are for my Sisters’ and Brothers’ family by blood and by AIM 
that are now in the Spirit World, and to them I say Lila Pilamaya, thank 
you for your love and work for The People.

My thoughts are also with the youth such as the Water Protectors and all 
people young and old who are working to protect Mother Earth. I hope 
someday in the near future to be with you and part of this march and 
join you in the feast prepared by Native People and wonderful supporters 
who have joined together today to honor our Ancestors.

In The Spirit of Crazy Horse.