Sunday, July 6, 2008

500 Years Dwelling Among Savages, SURRENDER

October 26, 1974, 1:45 pm
Home of Doc and LaVerna Jenkins
Doc: Aw’te Councilman

SURRENDER

Some of the Tribal Council and supporters were headed for Battle Mountain, Nevada for a conference that might unite the Paiutes, Shoshoni’s and our people

LaVerna Jenkins baked dose mesuts (deer ham). It was just one degree past wonderful. In the discourse around the table, Doc softly spoke some of the strongest words that have ever come to us:

“AMERICA ALWAYS SAID THAT I WAS A BEATEN INDIAN…
THAT I WAS DEFEATED

BUT,

AMERICA CANNOT SHOW ME MY TERMS OF SURRENDER.”


Since this date, Doc’s words have been plagiarized but mostly by tribal people who possess little ability to make any language blossom like these words.

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