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Myrtle Poor Bear
Op 6 februari 1976 werd Leonard Peltier gearresteerd in Canada. Hij werd door Canada uitgeleverd op basis van beëdigde verklaringen (Affidavits) ondertekend door Myrtle Poor
Bear, een Indiaanse vrouw waarvan bekend was dat zij mentale problemen had.
Valse Affidavits
Poor Bear beweerde dat zij Leonard Peltiers vriendin was ten tijde van
het vuurgevecht en dat zij aanwezig was en de moorden heeft zien plegen.
2.19.76
Affidavit
Myrtle Poor Bear,
being first duly sworn, deposes and states:
1. I am an
American Indian, born February 20, 1952, and reside at Allen, South Dakota, one
of the United States of America.
2. I first met
Leonard Peltier in Bismarck, North Dakota, during 1971. During March, 1975, I
again met Leonard Peltier at St. Francis, South Dakota, United States of
America. During April, 1975, I went to North Dakota to see him as a girl friend
of his. About the last week of May during 1975 I and Leonard Peltier went to
the Jumping Bull Hall near Oglala, South Dakota, United States of America.
There were several houses and about four or five tents. When Leonard arrived,
he gave orders on what was to be done. I was his girl friend at this time.
About a week after we arrived, about the second week of June, 1975, Leonard
Peltier and several others began planning how to kill either Bureau of Indian
Affairs Department, United States Government police or Federal Bureau of
Investigation, United States Government, agents who might come into this area.
Leonard Peltier was mostly in charge of the planning. All persons involved in
the planning had special assignments. There was also a detailed escape route
planned over the hills near the Jumping Bull Hall area. I was present during he
planning. Leonard Peltier always had a rifle and usually had a pistol near him.
The pistol was usually under a car seat. About one day before the Special
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were killed, Leonard Peltier said
he knew the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Bureau of Indian Affairs
were coming to serve an arrest warrant on Jimmy Eagle. Leonard Peltier told
people to get ready to kill them and he told me to get my car filled with gas
to be ready for an escape. I left Jumping Bull Hall at this point and did not
return. During August, 1975, I met Leonard Peltier again at Crow Dog's Paradise
on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, United States of America. We
talked about the killing of the two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents near
Jumping Bull Hall. Leonard said it makes him sick when he thinks about it. He
said that one of the agents surrendered, but he kept shooting. He said it was
like a movie he was watching but it was real, he was just acting right in it.
He said he lost his mind ad just started shooting. He said he shot them and
just kept pulling the trigger and couldn't stop.
Subscribed and
sworn to before me this 19th day of February, 1976.
/a/
Deputy Clerk
United
States District Court
District of South Dakota
Affidavit 1.
Hierin laten Special Agents
David Price en William Wood Myrtle Poor Bear vertellen hoe zij de planning van
de Northwest AIM groep om de agenten Coler en Williams in een hinderlaag te
lokken en te doden had afgeluisterd.
Hier wordt NIET gezegd dat
zij getuige was van de schietpartij, maar
dat zij eerst hoorde dat Leonard Peltier het bevel gaf de agenten dood te
schieten en dat hij het later aan haar heeft opgebiecht.
February 23, 1976
Affidavit
1. I am an
American Indian born February 20, 1952, and reside at Allen, South Dakota, one
of the United States of America.
2. I first met
Leonard Peltier in Bismarck, North Dakota, during 1971. During March, 1975, I
again met Leonard Peltier at St. Francis, South Dakota, United States of
America. During April, 1975, I went to North Dakota to see him as a girl friend
of his. About the last week of May during 1975 I and Leonard Peltier went to
the Jumping Bull Hall near Oglala, South Dakota, United States of America.
There were several houses and about four or five tents. When Leonard arrived,
he gave orders on what was to be done. I was his girl friend at this time.
About a week after we arrived, about the second week of June, 1975, Leonard
Peltier and several others began planning how to kill either Bureau of Indian
Affairs Department, United States Government police or Federal Bureau of
Investigation, United States Government, agents who might come into this area.
Leonard Peltier was mostly in charge of the planning. All persons involved in
the planning had special assignments. There was also a detailed escape route
planned over the hills near the Jumping Bull Hall area. I was present during he
planning. Leonard Peltier always had a rifle and usually had a pistol near him.
The pistol was usually under a car seat. About one day before the Special
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were killed, Leonard Peltier said
he knew the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Bureau of Indian Affairs
were coming to serve an arrest warrant on Jimmy Eagle. Leonard Peltier told
people to get ready to kill them and he told me to get my car filled with gas
to be ready for an escape, which I did. I was present the day the Special
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were killed. I saw leonard
Peltier shoot the FBI agents.During August, 1975, I met Leonard Peltier again
at Crow Dog's Paradise on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, United
States of America. We talked about the killing of the two Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents near Jumping Bull Hall. Leonard said it makes him sick
when he thinks about it. He said that one of the agents surrendered, but he
kept shooting. He said it was like a movie he was watching but it was real, he
was just acting right in it. He said he lost his mind ad just started shooting.
He said he shot them and just kept pulling the trigger and couldn't stop.
Subscribed and sworn to
before me this 23rd day of February, 1976.
/a/
Deputy Clerk
United States
District Court
District of South Dakota
Affidavit 2. In deze
Affidavit laten Price en Wood Myrtle Poor Bear zichzelf voorstellen als
vriendin van Peltier en als afluisteraar van de plannen voor de hinderlaag.
En hier wordt ze voorgesteld
als zou zij gezien hebben dat Peltier de agenten doodde.
De details over een
ontsnappingsroute werden er duidelijk bijgevoegd om het gezicht van de
aanwezige ordehandhavers te redden die er niet in geslaagd waren de verdachten
ter plaatse te arresteren.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
COUNTY OF PENNINGTON
In
THE Matter of The Extradition Act. R.S.C. 1970 Chaps. E-2] and in the Matter of
Leonard Peltier, also known as Leonard Little Shell, Leonard Williams, John
Yellow Robe, Erwin Yellow Robe,
Leonard
John Peltier
Affidavit
Myrtle Poor Bear,
being first duly sworn, deposes and states:
1. That I am
Myrtle Poor Bear, of Allen, South Dakota, United States of America, who was the
deponent in an affivadit sworn the 23rd day of February, 1976. This affidavit
is sworn by me to give further information.
2. Attached hereto
and marked Exhibit "A" to this, my Affidavit, is a photograph marked
February 12, 1976, and I testify and depose that the person show on the said
photograph is a person known to me as Leonard Peltier and is the person I spoke
of in my disposition of February 23, 1976, and the person referred to herein as
Leonard Peltier.
3. I recall the
events of June 26, 1975, which occurred at the area of Jumping Bull Hall near
Oglala on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the State of South Dakota,
United States of America.
4. Sometime during
the early part of that day, at approximately 12:00 Noon, Leonard Peltier came
into the residence of Harry Jumping Bull which is located in the area of
Jumping Bull Hall and said, "They're coming." I understood this to
mean that police or agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were in the
immediate area. A short time later, I saw a car which I recognized to be a
government car near Harry Jumping Bull's house. I went down to the creek bottom
a couple of hundred yards from the house. I heard shooting. I left the creek
bottom area and walked approximately 50 yards to where I saw two cars, both of
which I recognized to be government cars, because of the large radio antennaes
[sic] mounted on the rear of these cars and I had previously seen many cars of
a similar type driven by government agents in the same area. When I got to the
car, Leonard Peltier was facing a man which I believed to be a special agent of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This man was tall with dark hair. This man
threw a handgun to the side and said something to the effect that he was
surrendering. Leonard Peltier was pointing a rifle in the direction of this
man. The man was holding his arm as if he was wounded and was leaning against
the car previously mentioned. There was another man who I believed to be a
special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation lying face down on the
ground ad there was blood underneath him. I started to leave and was grabbed by
the hair by another person and could not get away. I turned again and saw
Leonard Peltier shoot the man who was standing against the car. I heard a shot
come from the rifle that Leonard Peltier was holding and I saw that rifle jump
up still in his hands. I saw that man's body jump into the air and fall to the
ground. The man fell face down on the ground. This happened in an instant. I
freed myself from the person who was holding me and ran up to Leonard Peltier
just as he was aiming his rifle at the man who had just fallen to the ground. I
pounded Leonard Peltier on the back. He yelled something at me which I cannot
recall. I turned, ran and left the area. As I was running away, I heard several
more shots from the area which I had just fled.
Subscribed and
sworn to before me this 31st day of March, 1976.
/a/
Deputy Clerk
United States
District Clerk
District of South Dakota
Affidavit 3.
Deze 3° Affidavit werd
uiteindelijk bij het Canadese gerecht neergelegd. Hierin wordt helemaal NIET
meer gesproken over het afluisteren van de plannen door Poor Bear. In de plaats daarvan zorgden
ze voor een gedetaillieerd ooggetuigenverslag. Bemerk ook dat er van die
zogenaamde biecht geen sprake meer is.
Leonard Peltier werd door Canada uitgeleverd aan de US.
Nu, jaren later heeft de regering toegeven
dat Myrtle Poor Bear Leonard Peltier niet
kende en dat zij niet
aanwezig was ten tijde van de schietpartij.
Myrtle Poor Bear heeft later toegegeven dat zij valse verklaringen had
ondertekend nadat zij onder druk gezet en geterroriseerd werd door FBI agenten.
Myrtle Poor Bear wou dit getuigen tijdens het Leonard Peltiers proces. Haar getuigenis werd echter door de rechter verworpen op grond van haar mentale ongeschiktheid.
Leonard Peltiers rechten werden geschonden.
De US regering pleegde fraude op het gerecht tijdens de
uitleveringsprocedure en schending van de soevereiniteit van Canada.
De US regering heeft nog geen enkele poging gedaan om dit onrecht goed
te maken.
 
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