Press release on Ward Churchill from the American Indian Movement

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AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT
GRAND GOVERNING COUNCIL
MINISTRY FOR INFORMATION
P.O. Box 13521 Minneapolis MN 55414
612/ 721-3914 Fax 612/ 721-7826
Email: aimggc@worldnet.att.net
Web Address: www.aimovement.org

Ward Churchill is scheduled to speak at De Paul University, Chicago IL on October 20, 2005. Churchill has caused a public furor over his loathsome remarks about the 9-11 tragedy in New York. AIM's Grand Governing Council has been dealing with Churchill's hateful attitude and rip-off of Indian people for years.

The American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council, representing the National and International leadership of the American Indian Movement once again is vehemently and emphatically repudiating and condemning the outrageous statements made by academic literary and Indian fraud, Ward Churchill in relationship to the 9-11 tragedy in New York City that claimed thousands of innocent people’s lives.

Churchill’s statement that these people deserved what happened to them, and calling them little Eichmanns, comparing them to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who implemented Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate European Jews and others, should be condemned by all.

The sorry part of this is Ward Churchill has fraudulently represented himself as an Indian, and a member of the American Indian Movement, a situation that has lifted him into the position of a lecturer on Indian activism. He has used the American Indian Movement’s chapter in Denver to attack the leadership of the official American Indian Movement with his misinformation and propaganda campaigns. He has deceitfully and treacherously fooled innocent and naÔve Indian community members in Denver, Colorado, as well as many other people worldwide. Churchill does not represent, nor does he speak on behalf of the American Indian Movement.

DePaul should be aware that in their search for truth and justice, they have hired a fraud to speak on Indian activism is in itself a betrayal of their goals.

WaBun-Inini, aka, Vernon Bellecourt
Ojibwa Nation, Executive Committee Member & Director Council on Foreign Relations
American Indian Movement