[Marxism] Murdered Natives in No. Dakota: Keep Memories and Cases Alive

["Hunter Gray" <hunterbadbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

NOTE BY HUNTER BEAR: July 30, 2007

Please forward this as broadly as you can. Much appreciated! It's been 
difficult to secure media coverage.

It has been six years since Robert and Damian Belgarde, father and son and
Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indians, were shot to death in rural Grand Forks
County, North Dakota -- and five years since 19 year old Russell Turcotte, also
a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, was murdered at night somewhere along lonely Highway
2, west of Grand Forks. No one has been arrested for any of these murders. Court
TV earlier this month ran a segmental piece on Russ' murder -- but that
production, frankly mediocre, has faded. There has been virtually no media
coverage of the Belgarde tragedy.

And these cases are in great danger of becoming "lost" in the context of
ever-flowing national and global horror.

We were the first, frankly, to pick up on these cases -- almost immediately
after they became known -- and, via our Hunterbear website and e-mail and a
large number of personal contacts, have been able to propel them out to the
regional and national realms. But it is a constant struggle.

This is the Link to our large and up-to-date page on murders of Natives in North
Dakota [a state in which we resided for sixteen years.]

http://hunterbear.org/NATIVE%20AMERICAN%20COMMISSION%20PAGE%204.htm


Appropriate E-mail messages to these two officials would be helpful:

The two officials are: Honorable John Hoeven, Governor
governor@xxxxxxxxxxx

Honorable Wayne Stenehjem, Attorney
General ndag@xxxxxxxxxxx

HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk
Protected by NaÃÂshdoÃÂiÃÂbaÃÂiÃÂ
and Ohkwari'

Check out our Hunterbear social justice website: www.hunterbear.org

[The site is dedicated to our one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm

Honored by The Elder Recognition Award of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and
Storytellers: http://www.hunterbear.org/elder_recognition_award_for_2005.htm








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