I^EIZE THE TIMEJI Vol.1 No. 3 AUGUST, 1974 25c "Neither Lawyer nor any other chief had authority to sell this land. It has always belonged to my people. It came unclouded to them from our fathers,and we will defend this land long as a drop of Indian Dloofl warms the hearts of men." Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces Inside This Issue: Native American International Treaty Conference. Centerfold Section:0n Ideological Clarity in The Black Liberation Movement. NCDPP Statement to Sixth Pan African Conference on POWS, On Self Defense. Statement from Ruchell Magee. Chicano Activists Assasinated. Phoenix Project in the U.S. Why We Bombed Gulf;Statement from the Weather Underground. How Armed Struggle Started In South Vietnam. On Supporting Political Prisoners. New Feature; CLASS STRUGGLE. SEIZE THE TIME PAGE 2 "JUCHE MEAwe HOLniNC FAST TO THE PRINCIPLE OF SOLVING FOR ONESELF ALL THE PROBLEMS OF THE REVOLUTION AND CONSTRUCTION IN CON- FORMITY WITH THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS AT H0ME„" - - - KIM IL SUNC<DRE) JUCHE SECTION The International Indian Treaty The North KorQan communist party has Council recognizes the sovereignty of all firmly established the principle of "Ju- Native Nations and will stand In unity che" as the basic principle of national to support our Native and international self-reliance in building revolutionary JUCHE brothers and sisters in their respective struggle. This section of the paper con• We, the sovereign Native Peoples and collective struggles concerning in• tains articles concerning the National charge the United States of America with ternational treaties and agreements vio• Liberation struggles of oppressed people gross violations of our International lated by the United States and other within the United States. Kim II Sung ex• Treaties. Two of the thousands of vio• governments. plains Juche more fully: "The establish- lations that can be cited are the "wrong• All treaties between the Sovereign mont of Juoho meane holding fast to the fully taking" of the Black Hills from Native Nations and the united states principle of solving for oneself all the the Great Sloux Nation in 1577, this Government, must be interpreted according problems of the revolution and construc• sacred land belonging to the Great Sioux to the traditional and spiritual ways of tion in conformity to the actual condi• Nation under the Fort Laramie Treaty of the signatory Native Nations. tions at home and mainly by one's own ef• 1868. The second violation was the for• fort. This is an Independent stand, dis• We declare our recognition of the ced march of the Cherokee People from Provisional Government of ths Independent carding dependence on others, displaying their ancestral lands in the state of the spirit of self-reliance and solving Oglala Nation, established by the Tradi• Georgia to the then "Indian Territory" tional Chiefs and Headmen under the pro• one's own affairs on one's own responsi• of Oklahoma after the Supreme Court bility under all circumstances", '.'(We) visions of the 1858 Fort Laramie Treaty of the United States ruled the Chero• with the Great Sioux Mation at Wounded have made every effort to establish Juche kee treaty rights inviolate. The in opposition to dogmatism and flunkyism. Knee, March 11, 1973. treaty violation, known as the "Trail We condemn the United States of Juche in ideology, independence in poli• of Tears" brought death to two-thirds of tics, self-reliance in the economy and America for its gross violation of the the Cherokee Nation during the forced 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty in militarily self-defense in national defense — this march. is our stand," surrounding, killing, and starving the The council further realizes that citizens of the independent Oglala Nation securing United States recognition of into exile. treaties signed with Native Nations re• We demand the United States of Am• quires a committed and unified struggle, INTERNATIONAL erica recognize the sovereignty of the using every available legal and politi• Oglala Nation and immediately stop all cal resource. Treaties between sover• TREATY COUNCIL present and future criminal prosecutions eign nations explicitly entail agreements of sovereign Native Peoples. We call which represent "the supreme law of the upon the conscionable nations of the " A len^ tun« age my father told me what land" binding each party to an inviolate world to join us in charging and prose• Wis father told Kim. There was once a international relationship. cuting the United States of America for Lakota Holy Man called Drinks Water, who We acknowledge the historical fact its genocidal practices against the Sov• vieioned wttae was to be; and this was that Independence of the peoples of our ereign Native Nations; most recently il• long before the eo«ing of the waslcue. sacred Mother Earth have always been lustrated by Wounded Knee 1973 and the He visioned that the four-legged were over sovereignty of land. These histor• continued refusal by the United States going back into the earth and that a ical freedom efforts have always involved of America to sign the United Nations strange race had woven a spider's web all the highest human sacrifice. 1948 Treaty on Genocide. around the Lakotas. And he said, "When We recognize that all Native Nations this happens, you shall live in barren wish to avoid violence, but we also rec• We reject all executive orders, lands, and there beside those gray hou• ognize that the united states government legislative acts and judicial decisions ses you shall starve." They say he went has always used force and violence to related to Native Nations since 1871, back into Mother Earth soon after he saw deny Native Americans basic human and when the United States unilaterally sus• this vision and it was sorrow that killed treaty rights. pended treaty making relations with Nat• ive Nations. This includes, but is not Hlack Elk-Oglala Sioux Holy Man We adopt this Declaration of Con• limited to, the Major Crimes Act, the tinuing Independence, recognizing that General Allotment Act, the Citizenship The United States of America has struggle lies ahead—a struggle certain continually violated the independent Na• Act of 1924, the Indian Reorganization tive Peoples of this continent by Execu• Act of 1934, Indian Claims Commission tive Action, Legislative fiat and Judic• Act, Public Law 280 and the Termination ial decision. By its actions, the U.S. Act. All treaties between Native Nations has denied all Native people their In• and the United States made prior to 1871 ternational Treaty rights. Treaty lands shall be recognized without further need and basic human rights of freedom and of interpretation. sovereignty. This saae U.S, Govern• We hereby ally ourselves with the ment which fought to throw off the yoke colonized Puerto Rican People in their of oppression and gain its own indepen• Struggle for Independence from the same dence, has now reversed its role cind United States of America. become the oppressor of sovereign Native we recognize that there is only people. one color o£ Mankind in the world who are not represented in the United Might does not maXe right. Sover• Nations. And that is the Indigenous eign people of varying cultures have the Redman of the Western Hemisphere. We absolute right to live in harmony with recognize this lack of representation Mother Earth so long as they do not in• in the United Nations comes from the fringe upon this same right of other to be won—and that the human and treaty genocidal policies of the colonial peoples. The denial of this right to rights of all Native Nations will be power of the United States. any sovereign people, such as the Native honored. In this understanding the Int• American Indian Nations, must be chall• ernational Indian Treaty Council declares: The Internaltonal Indian Treaty enged by truth and action. World con• The United States Government in its Council established by this conference cern must focus on all colonial govern• Constitution, Article VI, recognizes is directed to make application to the ments to the end that sovereign people treaties as part of the Supreme Law of United Nationas for recognition and everywhere shall live as they choose, the United States. We will peacefully membership of the sovereign Native in peace with dignity and freedom. pursue all legal and political avenues Nations. We pledge our support to to demand United States recognition of any similar application by any abor• The International Indian Treaty its own Constitution in this regard, iginal people. Conference hereby adopts this Declar• and thus to honor its treaties with the ation of Continuing Independence of the This conference directs the Native Nations. Sovereign Native American Indian Nations. Treaty Council to open negotiations In the course of these human events, we We will seek the support of all with the government of the United call upon the people of the world to world communities in the struggle for States through its Department of support this struggle for our sovereign the continuing independence of Native State. We seek these negotiations in rights and our treaty rights. We pledge Nations. order to establish diplomatic rel- our assistance to all other sovereign We the representatives of sovereign tions with the United States. When people who seek their own independence. Native Nations unite in forming a council these diplomatic relations have been The First International Treaty to be known as the international Indian established, the first order of Council of the Western Hemisphere was Treaty Council to implement these dec• business shall be to deal with formed on the land of the Standing Rock larations . U.S. violations of the rights of Sioux Tribe on June 8-16, 1974. The de- The International Indian Treaty those Native Indian Nations who have legatea, meeting under the guidance of Council will establish offices in Wash• refused to sign treaties with the the Great Spirit, represented 97 Indian ington, D.C.