Restless Spirit: The Murder of Eddie Peltier
A True Story By Cat West
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May 21st is Parole Hearing for wrongly convicted Richard LaFuente. Send letters! Write to me if you have any thoughts you'd like to share, information you want me to have or a correction to any information you see here. I respond to all emails. CAT NOTE: I reserve the right to NOT respond to whack jobs that waste my time.
Even if you don't live on the Rez, it's your money, YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK. You owe it to yourself to peek in once in awhile and see what you are paying for
All the pages are not yet hooked up, but as they fill out, I will post a note here and you can go and see for yourself. New (2nd) Contact page is hooked up. You can find information on contacting the Parole Board to Free Richard, HERE
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April 1, 2007 --Printer Version Your Candidates Are:
Anyone have an opinion on these guys? I still like Peggy Cavenaugh. I don't really know anything about her, but I know that Russ McDonald was afraid of her. Him and all his "degrees" melted down into a puddle-ette of tears and tantrums because she was opposed to him not doing his job and him hiring his unqualified family members. So bright he was, that he quit in protest. Saved them the formality of removing him. Now, Myra will probably want to play the shell game with the polling times and places, so put on your running shoes, keep reading the blog and listen to Kay BooHoo for the latest last minute changes. Speaking of which, the General Assembly Meeting has been rescheduled yet again: As of this writing, it is 5 PM Monday, April 2, 2007 but given how many times she has switched back and around on this one, trying to get away from you, make sure you listen to Kay BooHoo and phone them for the latest. I am probably being too hard on ol' naked lawn ornament. She probably, given the way she was so profoundly drunk for so long, has serious "Dain Bramage" she can't make up her mind. And like other decisions, we see, she keeps changing her mind: Boy or girl? Give away the Sacred Lands or not? General Assembly Meetings Times, cancellations, changes, changes and more changes! Must be hell to be inside her head! You need to get rid of all the incumbents. You need to decide on who you will vote for to get them out. If you all vote for this or that or that other one, you split the vote and the incumbents, with their loyal block of family and cronies, will get in again. I notice Zit Puke is not running this time. Gee, gonna miss his pus filled face! When you get the new council in, the first order of business will be to petition to have floated off the rez, Zit Puppet and a few others. Also, get rid of that Judge! Might have to do that one first to make the other parts stick. Like I say, you must get together and form a voting strategy and stick with it. Some of your choices are better than others, and some are worse, but do not deviate from the course you set. Whoever is in after the election, you stay on them and make sure they are accountable or you go after them. The days when you made it easy on them to abuse you, rob you and lie to you are over if you act together. They are counting on you NOT trusting one another. They will be spreading rumors and lies to see if they can split the vote. Stick with it. Regardless. Do not vote for any incumbent. Make sure the ballot boxes are EMPTY at the beginning, then locked and sealed under scrutiny of the public and have your scrutineers watching that each person that votes only votes once and no one stuffs the ballot box. You can do it! Mexican Cartels Protected on The Rez The drug kingpins of Old Mexico have found "safe trails" (FBI name for their enforcement practices in Indian Country) really means that they are safe in Indian Country. The government agents on the scene protect them, they are never reported and they can operate, at will throughout the country and are safe as long as they can get back into Indian Country, where the law won't even look to see if they are there. The drug trade is flourishing throughout the country because of these practices of ignoring the criminal enterprises that are running Indian Country. You dumb asses who think it is cute that your little babies know how to gang sign before they are off the bottle are killing your children. What kind of a future do you think you create for them with your drugs and your alcohol? Your violence and your low life? I do not know which is worse out there: Abuse or neglect, but I know it adds up to children, by the time they are 7, feeling like they have nothing to live for and can only fit in or be accepted if they do criminal things. You teach them that. See if WDAZ, Ch 8 is going to do more on that story. They barely touched on it Friday night. Surprised the snot outta me! But I was glad to see that someone actually delves into this stuff. It's not that there is nothing to find, that is not the case. The problem is, once you start looking into this stuff, it is like trying to drink from a fire hose! There is too much and it is everywhere! Well, that is what I and others have found so far. Cry Later Those of you who ignore this, you must take your share of the responsibility. It would not happen this way if you did not make this the easiest way to exist. This drug and alcohol, violence and sexual predator/victim cycle, is now a part of your culture. Your culture is what you live, got it? You giving your children and your children's children only grief. The mess you left for them, the work you left undone, the fight you never finished, most you you never begun. You know you must do this yourself. You must stand and stand and stand against the wrongs and the lies and the bullies. You cannot lie down and cry for yourself until the work is done. You see how scared they are because you don't make it easy on them. Imagine how much you could clean up that rez, how many children you could protect, if you all work together! These creeps that are ruining your lives, just a handful. Yeah, they got the money, they got the power. But they also got the fear. They fear you. They fear me, they fear people waking up and seeing what they have done and what they are doing. They fear one another because they are out of control and they cannot control their weakest links. Meanwhile, the criminals they are in league with, the gangstas, and the Cartels... well they have another fear coming because those homeboys will take over. That's right Hogg, they gonna mow you over and take your little kingdom for their own. Because they are better at it. So you see? They have the fear and it is in every breath they take. They have to watch, eavesdrop, plant microphones, cameras and spy on everyone wherever they can, because they fear the awakening. This "victory" they just had, didn't carry them out the door without them looking over their shoulders, wondering who among those they thought were with them, betrayed them. They only know for sure that 60 or more that were supposed to be with them, weren't . Now they question them, and one another. And they wonder, out loud: "Wonder what she will write tomorrow?" and they have that look in their eye, that lost look, that fear. I did not give this fear to them. They always had it. Always they have known that if you stood up to them, made it not easy for them, they would begin to fall apart. Now they do. And you overhear them, without microphones, they just spill in your direction, tidbits of their fear. You see the fear on their faces, watch them flinch when a door opens. You have no cameras to spy on them, but they are revealed in every way to you. I did not bring them this fear. They came with it. Now you see they have it and they know you see it, and it grows from there. None of them ever won a fair fight in their lives. None of them ever won a fair election. The fear that you will stop them, reveal them, bring them to justice is feeding off of them like a cancer. Cry later. You have work to do and it is not done yet. Pressure Cooker They were expecting you to go crawl away and leave them to their old ways. But you didn't. Now, now that they have played their biggest play, it got them what? Another few weeks? Hah! And they fear most of all, Zit Puppet. He threatened their partners in crime if they did not protect him. People who used to think he was their friend, their ally, know better now. He bullies those would be allies, threatens that if he goes down he takes them with him. Now they are scared. They have nowhere to turn. You don't trust them, they cannot go to you. They don't trust him, and they find they are discarded, one by one, no longer of use. Jackie Yakky mutters out loud everywhere she goes. Not even aware her darkest fears are slipping out her withering lips. In the store, in the casino, in the offices and in the hallways of the Blue Building. She is talking as if she is talking to someone. But no one is there! Several of you have been startled by this. You wonder if she is seeing ghosts. I don't know. I think she is just, like the rest of them, feeling the pressure of everyone knowing what it is they are doing, what it is they have done, and it is making them come undone! Keep the pressure on by not quitting. Empties, Throw-a-ways Myra Hunt, former Key Player for that Fecal Family, now trying to claw her way back into the pile. Discarded. Her daughter, Deanna, discarded, too. Pete Hager, too stupid to keep his yap shut, now watched warily by those who counted on him to do his part, lie on the stand, under oath... now reveals his lies, over and over again. He can't help himself. Like something possessing him. Maybe the spirits of the ones murdered, the crimes he helped to cover up, the crimes he committed? Who knows! Zit Puppet, afraid of his family, afraid of the community, knows they have only one way to deal with problem children, and that is certain to come. It won't be the opposition that does him in. No need for that. But his family and those in high places whom he threatened to expose, they are the ones that have more to lose. They will do him in. The list continues to grow longer as he continues to lose control, threaten more, and make more enemies in his circle of friends. And when they do kill him, will they get away with it? You know they will try to blame others, and the list is long. Who among those will be discarded? Whom will they throw into the pit of injustice to take the blame for this one? Eeny-meeny, my knee MO, That one Zit Puppet gots to go! His champion "reporters" at the Grand Forks Herald and the Devil's Lake Journal, become obvious for what they are doing. Cancel your subscriptions to those two papers. Boycott them for 4 months. Let them know that you do not support smear campaigns against the people in Indian Country who are fighting the good fight and working to clean up the horrors and the mess while the rest of them sleep it off. Make them answer, financially, for their one-sided attacks against the people who did the right thing. Make your point count where it always counts: Their bottom line. If you want respect, you have to earn it. Make them know how you feel about them without raising a finger except to dial up and cancel your subscription. Let's see how high and mighty they are when revenues plummet to the floor. Let's see how clever their little Puppet Puppets are when they see the black ink bleed red and the bosses hand them envelopes. Let's see if it is worth it to them then to be the PR Front man for the criminals in Indian Country. Let's see if it is worth it to them to ignore the evidence, documents and even the rules of fair play. Hope they got paid big bucks for running those "stories" for they were not journalism at all. They were more like paid for advertisement run by a cheap Public Relations company. Cancel the subscription. It's easy. Let me know how that goes! Walking Eagle Makes Millions More Looks like Carl Walking Eagle (walking because he is too fulla poop to fly!) plans to steal more money in the next two weeks. I guess a grant or contract is coming in. The money will not go where it is supposed to go, but rather he is planning to purchase more stock in Ronin, at a penny a share, and then sell it to the tribe at around $8/per share. He is saying it will be another million shares. That way, when the company goes belly up as their "great investments" always do, the tribe will be "robbed again" and he will have all the money in his pockets! Well, probably buried in his back yard in more cans. Oh yeah, and him and Lufkin bragging about the resorts they bought in Vegas? That also is where he hides the money he steals from you. So far, I have found about 5 aliases that he uses. Now I see that he has his son running for election! Hah! What a laugh! What's the promise there? First you gonna return the riding mowers? TVs, Tables and chairs that you stole from the Rec Center? No? Just wanna be where you can steal straight cash? Yeah, you a Walking Eagle all right! You know where to find me! ~Cat April 2, 2007 --Printer Version Let Me Count The Ways Right off, I got it wrong on which Walking Eagle was running. It is Carl Walking Eagle's neph that is on the list, not his son. Same same if you ask me. Carl still moving ahead with robbing the tribe, putting all their money into the Ronin scam. Which, of course, puts it into his own pockets. Him and Myra, Zit Puppet and their buds. But it would appear that someone besides me, is catching on to the scamster hamsters. Someone else is seeing that the company is purely a fraud. Here is a snippet of that person's comments:
Not sure who "Rilo" is, but I am getting an idea of who it might be. Have no clue as to who the person was that wrote this stuff, but clearly, they know their stuff. These bastards are so greedy, they won't dump the scam just yet! They are expecting another whack of money to come in from the State, and the Feds for programs "to help the poor indians.." (*Pop) which they will immediately, less than a week later, divert into this scam and it is making them so chubby right now, all their blood is residing in their littler brain! You still think Myra and Carl and Zit Puppet are being so terribly wrongly accused? Hah! You all know the truth. Those of you who have been siding with them have done it because they have been bribing or threatening you. For those of you ruled by fear, I can do nothing for you. Stand up or lie down, it is your choice. For those of you being bribed, now that you see how much money they have, you can see that they have really cheated you! Ask for way more! Judge Not The reason you have to get rid of those crooked Tribal Judges is simple: They are crooked. You have to buy your justice in Tribal Court. Guess who has the most money? Yup! Thems that robbed you gots all the gold! You want a fair chance? You want a fair fight? Get that judge and her buddies out of there. Case in point: Jerrid Mudgett Lawsuit go to that site and read up on that case. Jerrid allowed his 12 year old son to drive a tractor trailer, which was then involved in an accident, and he got off without having to pay a dime or be responsible for the damage! Appealing to higher courts is worthless because the Justice System pretzels and re-pretzels logic to justify their never going against any tribal judge anywhere for any reason. Oh! I see Jerrid Mudgett is running for office! Well, we know he gets along just fine with the Tribal Judge, so maybe you want to factor that one in as you are looking for whom to vote for. And ask him what he remembers about the night Eddie Petlier was murdered. Ask him about his sisters and what they saw. I am sure he remembers those kinds of things. After all, they have gained him a certain amount of political clout, him knowing and saying nothing. Him knowing and allowing the innocent to stay in prison. Yeah, ask him about it all. And then ask yourself if you want someone who would allow a 12 year old son of his to drive a machine he was not capable of handling and then dodge all accountability is the kind of man you would want as your leader in anything. His son could have been just as easily killed. Then what? Collect $200? Get out of Jail Free Card? This is not a game, my friends, this is real life. What if his son had killed someone? What then? Yup, get rid of the judge, her whole crew. There is no justice out there because those who would bring it, at the most basic level, just wait to be paid off. Your badgers and your courthouse, just a joke! Oberon Circus of Death Remember Leland Azure got killed as he was driving towards the Oh Oh Bar to do a drug pick up last week? In the car with him were Rosanna Redroad, Winfield Chaske, Jr., aka "Junebug" and Danette Lovejoy. Chaske, Jr. has a collapsed lung and he may not make it now. These were druggies. All druggies, all the time. Yes, I know the obit says nice things about Leland. But you know that drugs were ruining his life. Alcohol and drugs kill Indians faster than anyone else. Simple as that. If you take away the addictions, and the abuses and violence that go with it; and you take away the stupidity that ensues, what you generally have left is a really nice person. But that does not change the fact that the drugs and the alcohol are killing them and causing the innocent, even in their own families, to suffer. Parents leaving their children in the cars while they go into the bars and casinos, for hours, are killing their children. That woman who's little boy put the vehicle in gear and he went into the lake and was submerged for over 30 minutes back in 03, Hunter Thunder, who is still not right recovered and maybe never will be, had his mother, even as he is facing death and suffering, lie about what she was doing! Just went into the casino store for a minute? Anyone buy that? First thing people do is try to cover their own asses. No accountability, no regrets, and no changes in behaviors. What do you expect the outcome to be? More of the same, I guarantee! Now, with the drug runs in the morning to the Oh Oh Bar being so commonplace you can't miss it, and now with Leland dead and Chaske, Jr. maybe never going to be the same, what is the first instinct? Is it to solve the problem? Make changes? Wake up and put accountability in place? No! It is cover your ass! What was so weird about this one was that right after it happened, Pete and Karen went knocking on doors telling people that this was a terrible accident, and these were young college kids on their way to school in Bismarck... WHAT???? Not only was that an outrageous lie, not one of them in school, not sure if any even graduated from high school, but WHY were those two going around, knocking on doors, creating an alternate reality to make it look like it was something it absolutely could not have been? Unless, of course, they needed to convince people that THEY had nothing to do with it. But, if those kids were not making a drug run to the Oh Oh Barf, why would those two need to create such a fictional cover story? CYA! Only, neither of them smart enough to figure out that by doing that, they just stand out like the sore thumbs of involvement in this thing that they are. So, Leland's dead, Kalum's in jail, so whose gonna make the drug runs this next week? Or is Kalum out now and he can do it for himself again? Joe Teel, Jr. Kalum's partner can't do it. I guess we have to find a volunteer from the rez. Okay kids, raise your hands. Who's going to be next to die? You know Pete and Karen are not concerned about you. They want you to make them rich from the poison they sell you. And then, when you do die, they make up really stupid, laughable lies. Hey, maybe they can get their friend at the Devil's Lake Journal to write a really nice piece about it all! You know, say they were "college kids" and such. I hear they have an in with a really good reporter there, and the editor, he's just as tight! You might die making a drug run, but wow, think of the print! (Calliope music, "march of the clowns" plays in the background) A Simple Question Ask yourself this question: If not for drugs/alcohol, would Leland be alive today? Mike Meade? And would Hunter Thunder have been drowning in that cold cold lake in 03? You know more than I do how many are dead before their time out there. Read off the names and figure it out for yourselves. Include the suicides and the ones murdered by their violent significant others. They are your friends, your neighbors, your family, your children. Let me know when you have had enough. Let me know when you think the fight is worth fighting until your last breath. Look at the children who go hungry, neglected and abused. Look at the stray dogs that roam your streets. They are one the same. You call yourself spiritual people? You call yourself christians? You are what you are, and I would not want to be you. Make something of your life. Help someone to make something of their life. Stop making excuses! There is a blanket of excuses out there and it brings no comfort. Children, sons and daughters, blood of your blood, dying while those responsible mock you with their lies and their excuses, their threats and their extortions. How much longer? Those of you sitting on your blankets and waiting for others to come and clean it up for you, I want to see you in the front row of every funeral. Not as honored guests, but facing the community you poison with your laziness, cowardice and apathy. Thunder Beings Those among you who are standing up, I commend you. The Creator sees you and hears your prayers. Know that what you are doing is not for yourself, but for everyone. Pray for those who are on the Black Road for they are lost and confused. Ignore their mockery, for you know the truth and you are strong with it. They fear you or they would not try to silence you. They fear you or they would not try to intimidate you. It is their fear you feel, not yours. Indians fought and survived against all odds for thousands of years. Now the fight is the hardest of them all, for it is with their own, the war within. This is always the last battle. The greatest battles are fought with the help or against the Thunder beings. You know the legend of the Lake and you know that you are where that battle is fought. In prayers, ways that I was taught, we begin in the West, Home of the Thunder beings and of introspection, going within. This battle, my friends, is all that in more ways than one. Each of us must go within and face our greatest fears and emerge on the path of healing and right. We must each find our way to the Red Road and gather the strength and read the signs and not waiver in our faith that The Creator is with us always. It is not for us to see so far ahead that we can determine the outcome and decide whether or not the victory or lack there of is worth it. It is only our part to do our part. Our part is to come together, and hold true. Our part is to heal and to help others to heal. Our part is to stand up to the Black Road shadows and bring the light that they fear, and send them forever to their justice, not of our doing, but of their own making. Many of you already know the changes. You have felt your spirit rise and you have braved the cold apathy of your families and neighbors and stood strong against the evil. You cannot go back now for you know your purpose is to do what is right, regardless of the cost or the reward in this world. The reward is in the future, where the children can flourish and become the people The Creator intended us all to be. At last, in the future, if we stand up now, we can survive. If we fail, if we do not gather our light and come together, we suffer both in this world and the next, of our own undoing. You see the fear in the Turdclan and the desperate measures by their cronies, to salvage fiction and their desperation to intimidate you back under your blankets. When they fail, they turn on one another. And they are failing. Their family cannot trust their family. Their allies have made blunders that bring them all into the light. They fear one another and their greed makes them what they are. Pray for your strength, courage and guidance. Pray in anyway that you pray, be it Red Road or Christian, or any faith upon this earth that heals the heart and spirit in the love of One God. We all have work to do. But those who live in the Spirit Lake Nation will rise up and defy their own history of apathy and cowardice. They will rise and clean up the toxic sewage of drugs, alcohol, confusion and violence. It is where the Thunder Beings have chosen to make their stand. Either you will have them as allies and they will make you strong, or you will crawl away to hide and they will seek you out and dispatch you from this place with more pain and suffering than ever you have known. Either you have a purpose, or you have none. Know your purpose in this world and that will make you strong. You know where to find me. ~Cat April 3, 2007Printer Version For and Against Wow, when I asked for opinions on the candidates, I got 'em! Some people saying Peggy Cavenaugh is one of them, others supporting her, whole-heartedly, as dedicated and knowledgeable. One place you can go to see where she stands is to the special meeting that Myra has called for tomorrow (I have no idea when or where) wherein she plans to introduce and vote on a special change to the Constitution. Easy to guess that she wants to make it illegal to investigate anything the previous Tribal Council Members have done. Or some other way to cover their asses. I strongly suggest that you phone and phone and phone both Kay BooHoo and the Tribal offices to find out when this "special meeting" (again, on super short notice!) is going to be held and stand up against anything that will protect them from answering for their crimes. Take notes and get back to me on this one. Meantime, do keep them cards and letters coming regarding the candidates. The era of the bully is coming to an end and you are making that happen. You know they are afraid, some of you have even told me you can "smell their fear", but it is easy to see as they do more and more extreme things to try and protect their criminal operations from ever seeing the light of day. Scamster Hamster Wheelman Also, as I am now gathering more and more information on Jerry Cudworth, who has been the brains behind the scenes on every scam since 84, I would like to hear from you all what you know about him. So far, there is a mountain of information and I am sorting through it to put it on the web. But I need more. Some of this stuff is redundant to what I already have, but I know there is more, much more out there. Tomorrow's Blog Today I will be updating this blog more later this afternoon, so no permanent version yet available. Check back later! You are essentially, getting tomorrow's blog today. Kinda like peeking into the future, eh? Misdirected Anger I understand better than most, not as good as some, the dynamics of addiction and alcoholism and how it affects absolutely everyone, from the tiniest unborn child to the oldest grandmother or grandfather in the family and everyone in-between. It also affects the entire community. There is a saying that if someone in your family has an addiction problem, the family has an addiction problem. The logic behind that is that the addict involves everyone in their game and everyone plays their part, willingly or not, knowingly or not. Usually "Not." You can extend that out to "if someone in the community has a drug or alcohol problem, it affects everyone in the community." Look at the repercussions: Violence, sickness, birth defects, neglect, abandonment, abuse and death. How can any of that not affect everyone? Who among us is immune from the heartache of another child abused, molested raped? Another home burglarized for drug money? Another mother's son or daughter, dead from addiction and the behaviors that go with it? We are all involved. Turning away and ignoring this part or that because you don't want to "offend" anyone, only leaves the door wide open for the cold icy fingers of death to reach in and take yet another good life into the darkness and despair. Ignoring the consequences, the inevitable end to those who walk the path of addiction and despair is to merely cheer them on as they go over the cliff! It is human nature to want to give comfort to those who are suffering. But if comfort means you must deny what brought that suffering, then only more suffering will come. It is always the innocent that are hurt. If the "guilty" or the addicted only hurt themselves or others and we were not connected to anyone that did anything bad, the problem would be nothing. But that is not how it works. Good people die young. Drugs and alcohol are killing Indians faster than anything else out there. An innocent, free of addiction that is mowed down and killed by a drunk driver, is also a statistic on "death from alcohol". It was not in their blood, but the person that ran them down had it. That makes the problem Everyone's. I see people are upset that I am appearing to be unsympathetic to Leland Azure and his family. I say that anger is entirely misdirected. I did not make Leland drink or do drugs. Those of you who partied with him as his "friends", and ignored the damage being done, YOU are the guilty in this, not I. The people that served him alcohol and supplied him with alcohol when clearly he was intoxicated, just so they could make another buck, THEY are your bad guys in this, not me. Those who sold him dope, and better yet, those who introduced him to it, THEY are the guilty here, not I. Those of you who ignored his addictions and only showed him love and support, well, I understand why you did it, but being angry at me because I point the finger directly at the cause of his death, in hopes that it will wake up others, so someone else can see that the end of this road, if they do not change their ways and seek and apply themselves to healing their self; is more grief, more heartache, another mother burying her child before his or her time, is counter productive. I know it is customary when someone dies to only say good things about them. But here is where I draw the line: That the same people that addicted him, supplied him; his dealers and his drinking buddies, all get hugs from the broken-hearted. You save your anger for the person that points out how this happened and why. Can you see that your anger is misdirected? Or do you choose to be only the perpetual victim? Your anger should be directed at those who brought this grief into your lives, your homes, and poisoned your children. Your anger should be loud and long and every mother's son and daughter who is presently starting off on that very same road, should be made to see it in the true light of what it is and what it does. You cannot heal that which you do not acknowledge is wounding you, killing you. Save your anger for those that did this to him or her, not for the person who narrates the tragic end of another good life cut short. Have You Hugged Your Dealer Today?-- the politics of denial. I say "Rest In Peace Dumbass" because I have buried many of my friends over the years, who thought it was "cool" to do drugs, get out of their minds drunk and drive. I have buried their children. I have buried their friends. I say it each and every time. "Rest in Peace, Dumbass." I have worked so many years to wake people up to the evils of drugs and alcohol. And like so many that stand up against it, I know that it is like shouting in the wind because the prevailing credo out there is that you are sexier, smarter, more fun and better liked if you involve yourself in these vices. Young kids are buying into this by the hour. Go ahead and get mad at me. Anger does not always need a reason. But if you want to do something about it you can start by shunning those who sell the drugs. You can shut out of your life and your comforts, those who encouraged Leland and the others to "party". But no, you hug them, share tears of grief with them. The message goes forward that there are no social consequences for anyone that hurts your child. Only to those who hurt your feelings. I don't see this problem ending any time soon. I see, and so do you all, more funerals to come. I ask you this: "Have you hugged your Dealer Today?" Have you given him or her a free pass to your heart because they were "friends" of your dead child? It never fails, especially in Indian Communities where everyone KNOWS who the dealers are! The dealers are welcomed at the funerals, and often supply the "after party drugs" for those who wish to "forget what just happened". Family members of the dead will hug that dealer because they love them because they loved their child! Anyone that gives you drugs is not your friend. They are someone that wants to control you by your addictions. Anyone that gives your child drugs or alcohol, is not someone that loved or cared about your child. You see the end result. You are surprised? Yet, you welcome them! You think they share your loss? They caused your loss! You treat them as welcome and you spit on me? What would happen, if in that community, people condemned those who perpetuate the evil rather than excusing them for their weaknesses? Rather than accepting them for their "love". We all require acceptance in this world. That, in fact, is what drives most people to partake in the addictions to poisons that bring so much grief. There is an architecture to this social structure and presently it is supporting the evil, the addictions and not holding to account anyone or anything. Y'all, We All, need to get together, face it as a family, as a community and as a nation, in the true light of what it is, not what we wish it was not, and begin the healing. Until then, I await the news of the next funeral. The next sweet soul stolen by drugs and alcohol. I also await the misguided missiles of anger that think I am the cause of your discomfort and your pain. I am not. I am just the narrator. If you want this pain to end, you must end it. No time like a funeral to see for reals, the consequences of NOT standing up against the evil that rules you and ruins you children. This evil thrives and continues to feed on the children because we do not want to confront it head on for what it is. We are afraid that because we are not perfect, we do not deserve anything better. We turn away because dealing with it only causes more pain. And in turning away, we guarantee it will thrive. Like turning out the light in the room where the evil is consuming your children. Shutting the door, even as you know it is feeding. Hoping it does not come out and grab another piece of your heart, tear another family apart. Ignoring it does not help you. Ignoring it, whatever evil it is, only gives it time and room to grow stronger and to take more. The politics of denial create the perfect growing environment for every evil: Drugs, corruption, murder, rape. Your children do not respect you because you do not want to know what they are doing. We can all pretend that nothing bad is happening. And when it does happen, we can all act surprised. We learn nothing, we change nothing. Is that what you want? You know where to find me. ~Cat April 4, 2007 --Printer Version Tragic Loss A very young mother has left small children behind after her sudden passing April 2nd. Rosalie Bear's Granddaughter, a young mother, had an acute, fatal reaction to a medication. The way I am hearing it, she licked the spoon after giving medication to her child. That was all it took! So more prayers for the families that have lost their children. I can only tell you what I know, having stood by those who have had to bury their children: There is no greater pain, no grief more burning than the loss of a child, no matter how old that child is. That it would be a freak accident, such as this, gives little comfort to anyone. That she is now in Paradise, leaves only the gaping wounds of grief for those she left behind. Is this grief of this family any different from the grief of Leland Azure's family? No. The pain is just as great, just as searing. Look around at everyone you know and love in your life, in your community. You value them and they value you. Their loss of you or your loss of them would hurt like this. We owe it to those we care about to take good care of ourselves and of our children. We need to let our children know how they are loved, valued and a blessing in our lives, even in the worst of times, the most awkward of times. They need to know that they have value so that they too can take care in what they do so they do not leave us too soon. Only when they realize that just their being with us, sharing the air we breathe and the food we eat, is a blessing so that when the time comes and they are faced with making stupid choices or better choices, they will remember they are loved. All love comes from and returns to God. We must gather strength from one another and come together to keep our children, and their children safe. Tragic accidents happen. Acts of God and Nature Happen. Stupidity happens. It all feels the same to those left behind. Take good care in all that you do! And remember always, to pray for those who have lost their loved ones, regardless of who they are or how they lost them. Sooner or later in each of our lives, we will know this grief and we too, will need prayers from all to keep us moving forward in this world, because we too are valued, needed, and loved. Election Input I am hearing both good and bad about Peggy Cavenaugh. Nepotism to the extreme as the bad, but corruption being in there, not so much. Although, nepotism is corruption. I am also, and this surprised me, hearing good things about Darren Walking Eagle. That he is nothing like Carl. That he was raised in a good way, away from the rez. That he abides by right and wrong. It is just that family that I don't trust. I wonder how tight his connections are to them and how strong he would be about undoing and prosecuting their crimes over the past 20 years! Or would he, from family loyalty, protect them? You all need to talk to him and to Peggy and see where they stand and look them in the eye and see for yourself. Whomever you get in there, you must oust the incumbents and you can only do that if you don't split the vote. You must vote, en masse for one and only one, despite your family loyalties or your friendships. You must do, all of you, what is right for the community. Otherwise, nothing changes. Two Step Myra had a meeting yesterday to make the terms 4 years instead of 2. Look how much they have been stealing from you and abusing you every two years! Can you imagine how they could raid you and destroy you if you gave them more time to do it? The only time they truly have to answer for their criminal behaviors is at election time. They have big families and they have spread a lot of money around to bribe people to vote for them. They have also extorted and intimidated people to go along with them or to not show up and oppose them. They want absolute power over you. You must vote solidly for one person in order to over ride their block vote of their family and their cronies. You can do it. But you must come together to do it! And you must talk and discuss it. If anyone says that the plan has changed, you must gather to make it official and not take one person's word for it. Don't fall for any of their tricks and don't let your petty jealousies and resentments of one another bring you down again. Do this one thing and you will be able to begin to undo the darkness that has swallowed your community alive and holds you in its belly all these many years! Your children are dying at a rate impossible to comprehend. You must do this for them. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Mary Mack Truck is too cowardly to go by the name she is known by. She used "Lohnes" so that it would fool some of you. Remember: Everything that she is is because her family sold her to the Turdclan to do with as they pleased. She lied and her lies keep an innocent man in prison more than 20 years now. She does the bidding of the Turdclan and of no one else. She is not worthy of being in your community, much less being elected by any fair vote to any leadership position. She only knows one position and that is on her knees to the Turdlings. Yakky Jackie Jackie Turd seems to continue her weird behaviors. Still muttering to herself, swatting at phantoms, and losing weight. She has been described as "When she stands sideways and sticks out her tongue, she looks like a zipper." Her mood swings are becoming more acute (not adorable) and more extreme. Yesterday, while muttering to herself, she burst out with a giggle. I guess one of her ghosts told her a joke? Turdmother Returns Looks like Turdmother has given up on trying to control God by going to Mass and giving her paltry $5 offering. She has decided to go back to "The Old Ways." I got news for youse, Turdymomma! Same God! Same Story! You ain't foolin' no one! Your Black Road ways may welcome you back, but there is a price to pay and you still owe it. Your Black Road Medicine Men are falling down faster and faster now. Their old magic worn out, their spirits too sickened to save you from the consequences of your deliberate evil. Please, by all means, go back to "The Old Ways!" The Catholic Church can use the fresh air of your absence. Take your family with you. I will see you in my smoke! You know where to find me. ~Cat April 5, 2007 --Printer Version Disconnected I do love it when I hear from the Arrogant, self-appointed who feel they should lecture me on the mission of this project. That I am only to discuss Eddie's murder and nothing else! As if it is not related to everything that goes on out there! And that is how these fake Indian Way types want you to think: That the murder of Eddie Peltier was a singular incident and is not in any way connected to anything that happened before or since! Even though the people who murdered Eddie and those who helped them cover it up, are those who are in power and run every aspect of your survival out there. Not connected? You think I am not to mention anything about the deaths and such that are occurring out there? You think it is not connected? Think again, Buckwheat! Unemployment is over 60%! Alcoholism and drug addiction are rampant. Your children are being raped and molested. You are being bullied into not voting against those who are killing you, your children and your future. All the while, the ones that killed Eddie, and those before him and those since, are rubbing your noses in the wealth they have stolen from your community! Think that has no effect on your life out there? Carl McKay just bought himself a brand new, high end blue Cadillac! He go the money from stealing from the contracts that were meant to employ the tribe members! The Turdclan gets a new car every time they wreck their other new cars. You pay for it, and they strut around you like they own you! You think it is not connected? Your children, raised in this cess pool of corruption, have no hope. Their self-esteem is at rock bottom and they turn to addictions to ease the pain, only to create more pain. You think their deaths are NOT related to the evil that runs your lives out there? You think each and every addiction is not connected to the one before it? Whom do you think led them to their addictions? That violence is on the increase and you have murders, robberies, burglaries and rape and abuse and no one can feel safe in their home, you think that is not related to those who killed Eddie and those who protect them? You think that You want me to stay silent as families mourn? There would be nothing but silence from here to the end of days because nothing is being learned without someone speaking up at these painful times and saying: Look at how this happened. Look at what pain this has brought. Make better choices for yourself, your family and your community. But some of you prefer silence over awareness and stopping these deaths? What a parade of martyrs we would have! And they would be led, eyes closed, ears plugged, silently from funeral to funeral never mentioning what all they have in common and how they could have been and could be, prevented? That is what the opposition to your healing wants you to believe out there. They want you to listen only to the silence and never ever speak the truth and never ever take accountability. They want you to think this is all just falling from the sky with no rhyme nor reason. They want you think there is no way to change any of this. They are stupid. Up to you if you support that stupidity or if you do the hard and painful work of fixing the broken pieces of the lives out there. It is always a choice and as always, I leave it up to you. But think again, when someone says:"Hush!". Remember Demus McDonald putting his fingers to his lips when Fred Peltier tried to go to his brother's aid as he was being beaten to death (thump, stomp, kick) at the home of Celeste Herman by her brothers, the Turdclan. Think of Demus saying: "Hush! Say nothing!" And decide if that is what you want for your brothers and sisters. Because if you say nothing, then nothing will stop the next and the next and the next from dying young and more grief falling on the community like rain, with nowhere shelter to be had. The time to speak out is now. It is always. And when there is a tragedy that could have been avoided, that needs to be talked about and learned from. Problem is, out there, the resistance to learning from the tragedies of the past leave only more tragedies for the future until the point is learned. Yes, I know it hurts the families. But it is the needless death of their loved ones that hurts them, not me telling it. I did not cause the death. If you are angry, place your anger in the direction of those who have spoiled the air, water and earth of your lives. If you are angry, take it to the doorsteps of those who have taken all hope away from your children and left them only with their addictions and self-loathing to the point that they can't save themselves. You bring it to me, you waste your time. The pain is there, but I did not bring it. And if we do not learn from each and every one of these deaths, the root cause of it, who caused it, and why it happened, we can only expect more pain, more grief, and a parade of silent martyrs to the cemetery and back to home, waiting for the next parade to start. Connect the dots or remain disconnected. You see the price for staying disconnected. Send me your voice and I will help you to carry it. Stay silent and hear nothing if you so choose. I am only the narrator. Moving Day You have a chance, with the upcoming election, to oust the incumbents. You must do that as your primary mission. Already you are splitting the vote, which guarantees they will return to rule over you. Guarantees no hope for your future and your children will continue to move into the cemetery. So many already packed to go and not looking back. Let me know when you want it to end. But when you want it to end and you cry out for that, be prepared to do the work of ending it. So far, a lot of complaining and not much work and not many willing. Pull together and make a choice and stick with that choice. No one really good stands out in my mind except for Rosalie Bear who was threatened by Zit Puppet because she asked him a question about where the money was going. More like her would make this election time more easy. But the choices, otherwise are between a rock and a swamp place. Pick the one you are going to vote for. If that person does not respect the people once they are in, you can even more easily petition them out! Trust me, if they know you can put them in or take them out, they will do the right thing! But they won't know that if you don't show them, by coming together and voting as one. It sounds so simple! All that needs to be done for the Good People of Spirit Lake Nation to begin to heal the wounds of corruption is that they need to talk to one another and cooperate! But what do I see? What do I hear? Whining, complaining, but no constructive plan. Buckle up, kids, going to be more of the same. Why? Because the Blanket Indians only know how to squabble and back stab, and they hold their petty jealousies and feuds more highly than the future of the community that will either empower or defeat and drown their children! You are what you are, and only you can change that. Me? Well, I just do what I am doing. Dancing With The Coyotes I play on your addictions to show you what you show me you are. I am speaking to those who say they hate the blog, and they hate me, but they jump to read it as soon as it is posted or printed and stapled (Ka-Chump!) and passed around. They hate it, but they must have it! They know the end is coming, and they use the blog to guage how much has been revealed and what is still unsaid. They try to time their escape, but they have nowhere to go. For them, I am their addiction. They can't quit and they can't win. It's the least I can do! Why? Because they know that you have it and you know it. They need to know what you know. Even if it scares the crap out of them, they crave it! They are driven to confirm that all I am saying about them is true! Zit Puppet got up and declared Carl Walking Eagle, Lonna Jackson, Mark Lufkins are corrupt! Hahah! So, to deny what I say and then confirm it as a threat to those in his own family, shows that the Coyote already got him and won't let go until the music stops. That Petesky Hager stood up, with a camera rolling and declared that Eddie was murdered in Celeste Herman's house (he did this on at least two occasions!) also puts the lie to all that he had testified to in court when he helped the Turdlings frame the innocent. Now he sells booze to the underage and the over served, and makes his money from drugs that poison the children who were not even born back when Eddie was murdered. You still think that what goes on now is not connected to what was done then? Maybe Coyotes are dancing with you all! I wonder when Coyote will make Petesky jump up and tell the truth again? I wonder when Zit Puppet will feel the icy cold chill of his own demise rising up in his family's eyes and once again spill what he knows on those who do the business of stealing from the Good People of Spirit Lake Nation? I can't really say when that will happen. But i do know this. Once Coyote gets you, he don't let go until he is done with you. You either tell the truth or you dance until you die, to the tune he is playing. Coyote for sure, got Petesky. For sure got Zit Puppet. For sure is sniffing at the heels of those of you who would use the death and ensuing grief of the community to try and ring silence down on the only voice you have right now. Coyote picked up some strings somewhere, following them now, to see where they lead. Who is feeling the tug-tug-tug and looking over their shoulders lately? They will reveal themselves to you. They cannot help it. It is how Coyote makes them dance! Ahhh Woooo -Yahhhhhh Awwww! Hahahahah! Minor Correction: Roseanna Redroad is the one who had to have her lung removed from the tragedy of last Tuesday. Junebug, apparently, not that hurt. Those who survived the wreck that took David Azure to the spirit world, have they learned anything? Or are they still on the same path, expecting different outcome from the same behaviors? Will they still protect those who poisoned them with drugs and alcohol? Will they still call them "friends"? I wonder. How about sending out engraved invitations to the next funeral, perhaps your own, and invite those that helped you get there. You know, the ones that sell you booze, encourage you to drink, and those who sell you drugs and tell you it makes you cool! Invite them to your funerals! Leave out those who love you and care about you and who you have been hurting with your addictions. Leave out those who tried to put you on the road to sobriety, (party poopers!). Just invite those who cause the pain to enjoy it. How does that sound? Every single one of you that is reading this and going out to drink and do drugs, I want you to think about that. I want you to look at your mother, father, grandparents and your children, sisters and brothers, and tell them you don't care how much pain you cause, that it is your life and you can do what you want. As if your life has no effect on any other life. You have seen the pain, the grief close up now, time and time again. Is this really what you want to bring to those in whose eyes you are valued? In whose eyes you are family? If so, carry on! If not, make the changes now. There may not be a tomorrow to put this off to. Make a minor correction now, and set your course for something better for yourself and for those you care about and love you. Mething Around With Politics Sandra Lambrose Miller, who did time for running a meth lab, is handing out and helping out with the vote on the two year or four year terms by handing out the voting slips. Gee, can really trust her?? See how many of the corrupt support those who have done the most damage to your community? Get an ex con, meth lab, meth head, to help with the vote? Easy to see how someone like her could find employment! Those who have done the hard work of walking the straight and narrow, you get nothing. Or you are threatened with loss of your job if you go anywhere near the voting! But, you put in someone you know is a criminal, and presto! The woman gets paid! Makes you wonder why, does it not? We shall see how this vote goes. Let me guess, she gets to help count the votes? Oh, way too funny! You know where to find me. ~Cat
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Reservation,
North Dakota. How the ongoing criminal
enterprise continues to flourish unabated and without a single response
from the Justice Department. Well, not surprising on that! They
would have to investigate themselves and how some of their elite were directly
involved and have prospered from the corruption that exists, protected
and funded by US Tax Dollars.