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Chief Billy "Red Wing" Tayac of the Piscataway Nation

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On Sunday, February 24th, Chief Billy "Red Wing" Tayac of the Piscataway Nation spoke at the University of Virginia at an event sponsored by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice (CCPJ), the American Indian Student Union, the National Native American Law Student Association, and the Office of the Dean of Students of UVA.

Chief Tayac has been an Indian activist for several decades, participating in many indigenous struggles, including Wounded Knee, Gankineh, Big Mountain, OK'a, Gustafson Lake, and the Salvadorian Indian and Ecuadorian Indian Movements. Chief Billy Tayac is currently working to assist Spanish speaking Indians who are suffering a new era of economic invasion resulting from NAFTA and the unregulated practices of many multinational corporations based in the United States. Once again Indian people are being forced off their land.

CCPJ produced a video of Chief Tayac's remarks: 3GP VIDEO.

 

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A people that needs to be heard

Thanks David for sharing this. I wish more people would get involved with Native American and indigenous peoples issues. They are a forgotten people that need to be heard.

by Rick Theile (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 50 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:27:05 PM

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Billy Red Wing Teycc

I have heard mixed things in Indian country about the Maryland Piscataways.  In doing some Internet research, I came across this information by Lea C. Sims: http://www.eskimo.com/~lcsims/tayacfraud.htm

Is there more information about that might clarify if they are legit?

by Troy4mt (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Monday, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:59:20 PM

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Reply: Indians in question

I would believe an Indian over a whiteman any day and I am white.

by Rick Theile (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 50 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:07:24 PM

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