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Protesters attempt to educate masses about Columbus, American Indians
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A group of protesters on a cross-country mission to re-educate Americans about Christopher Columbus stopped in Oklahoma City on Monday to deciy what it called past injustices and present insensitivity toward American Indians.
"We want to allay the old American myth that Indian people are in some way a dying culture or that we are in some way a people (who) are disappearing from America," said Carter Camp with the Campaise for Sovereignty.
"In the state of Oklahoma, we have just increased our numbers by about 2 percent. We are now the largest minority group here in Oklahoma."
Camp, from White Eagle, and about a half-dozen other Oklahomaans joined those making the Spiritual Walk of 1992 for a news conference and demonstration near the Oklahoma City federal courthouse.
The sojourn begin in San Francisco on New Year's day is scheduled to make stops in Shawnee and Henryetta before moving eastward out of Oklahoma.
The Benedictine Peace House and some tribal representatives were included in the entourage greeting the group
The walkers say they want to "call attention to the effects of 500 years of colonization and genocide upon American Indian Nations."
Those effects, Camp said, include Indians' lack of representation in government and what he called governmental assault on Indian sovereignty, particularly regarding non-taxable smokeshops and bingo games.
The group also asked Americans to
"The state of Oklahoma has kept a constant attack against our sovereignty and our right to exist here. . . Columbus Day will merely be a beginning of the next 500 years.
"Wentint to last aslongas there is an America."
"The state of Oklahoma has kept a constant attack against our sovereignty and our right to exist here."
Carter Camp Campaign For Sovereignty
take note of Leonard Peltier, a former American Indian Movement leader who is serving two life sentences in Leavenport, Kansas for the death of two EFLagers.
A flier distributed at the news conference says Peltier was unairly charged in the deaths and that government officials don't know who killed the men.
The group plans to converge on Leavenworth on Memorial Day to pay tribute to Peltier, organizers said.
Several reporters asked Camp if the group was losing some its focus by tacking Pettier's slick and other issues onto the anti-Columbus Day campaign.
"He was railroaded and he was cheated and he's our leader. He's the Nelson Mandela of the American Indian people, and we say 'free Peltier.' Camso said.
They gathered their sides and walked northeastward toward the state Capitol, where the walkers planned to stop and pray a prayer for Gov. David Walters, so that "maybe he'll see the light," Oklahoma walk coordinator Ben Carnes said.
"We're talking about the legacy of Columbus and that the inherent racism that began back then still exists today inside this American government," Carress said.
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Sandblasting the paint and debris from the bottom of a bridge at West Hills Apartments, Don Dearing of Dearing Painting and Sandblasting, prepares the bridge for repairs. Dearing worked yesterday afternoon and hoped to complete the job by day's end.
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