(From Uncut Conscience.)

If you’re an American Indian in the United States of America, whether you are a Lakota or a Navajo, a tenured professor or a Nobel Peace Prize winner, or an elected president of another country, you will not receive justice in any form from the white people of America.

They attacked Vine Deloria, Jr. (on the day of his funeral), Rigoberta Menchu and Evo Morales.  An Indian on a reservation can’t get justice.  And a tenured professor can get unconstitutionally thrown out, vindicated by a jury of his peers in a court of law, and it doesn’t matter.

Everyone I’ve named cannot fight back.  Evo Morales has to worry about being the president of a country; Rigoberta Menchu has to continue working for her people.  Vine Deloria is dead.  Indian people on reservations have no power of any kind.  Only Ward Churchill has the ability to fight back and win, and it’s still not good enough.  They still quash him.

The American Indian has been living at Guantánamo Bay since the founding of the United States of America.