Talk:Vernon Bellecourt

Ancestry

I read somewhere once that his ancestry was partly European (maybe French?), which is not unusual for American Indians in the modern day. Is there a source covering this? Badagnani 18:40, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

removal of irrelevent material ...

I have taken the liberty of removing the following two paragraphs from the section entitled "American Indian Movement":

In 2002 Paul DeMain, editor of the independent News from Indian Country, published an editorial saying that he had been told by confidential sources that Peltier had bragged in 1975 to other AIM members about killing at least one of the agents. He also wrote that AIM leaders had feared Anna Mae Aquash, the highest-ranking woman in AIM, may have been an informant and ordered her execution. She was found dead on the Pine Ridge Reservation on February 1976 and was found to have been shot in the back of the head in late December 1975.

In 2003, over 27 years after Anna Mae Aquash's murder, a federal grand jury indicted Arlo Looking Cloud and John Graham in the murder of Aquash. Looking Cloud was convicted in 2004, at a trial in which witnesses testified about Peltier's bragging. Graham was extradited from Canada in 2007 and indicted by the state of South Dakota in 2009. He was convicted of felony murder of Aquash in 2010. Both men are serving life sentences. Authorities are continuing to investigate the murder. The two daughters of Aquash believe that only high-ranking leader(s) of AIM could have ordered her execution.

These paragraphs, as written, have nothing to do with Mister Bellecourt. There are, instead, an endorsement of a newspaper (of questionable merit), an attempt to besmirch Leonard Peltier ("anonymous sources"? uncited? after all the fabricated evidence which has been documented in the case?), and an attempt to portray AIM as a murderous organization. There may be something to say about Bellecourt's involvement in the death of Anna Mae Aquash, but these paragraphs have not done that. The lack of citations in these paragraphs is, of itself, reason for deleting them. E.N.Stanway (talk) 20:06, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

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