We need not give another resuscitation of past complaints nor engage in redundant dialogue of discontent.

Our conditions and their cause of being should perhaps be best known by those have written the record of America's action against Indian people.

In 1832 Black Hawk correctly observed, you know the cause of our making war.

It is known to all white men.

They ought to be ashamed of it.

The government of the United States knows the reasons for our going to its capital city.

Unfortunately, they don't know how to greet us.

We go because America has been only too ready to

express shame and suffer none from the expression while

remaining wholly unwilling to change to allow life for Indian people. We seek a new American majority,

a majority that is not content merely to confirm itself by superiority in numbers,

but which by conscious is committed towards prevailing upon the public

will in ceasing wrong and in doing right.

For our part in words and deeds of coming days, we propose to produce a rational reasoned

manifesto for construction of an Indian future in America.

If America has maintained faith with its original spirit or may recognize it now, we should not be denied.

Press statement issued by AIM October 31st, 1970. Told me you was my land that's the way it should be now I knew how I lost it all

through the branch of the realty of the BIA.

BIA.

There ain't no doubt about it.

I'm gonna live it at it BIA.

BIA.

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