Please!! I have been a Peltier activist for 28 years and please do not let my work I have been doing since I was 16 go in vain. I am 44 going on 45. Please!! Please sign this!! Please get the word out. I just found I am Cherokee by blood which was kept as a secret by my family. My grandfather is 100 % CHEROKEE! SO MY DEDICATION TO THE PEOPLE IS EVEN MORE THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN AND TO PELTIER!! I WALKED ACROSS THE COUNTRY UNTIL MY FEET BLED!! BUT MANY HAVE SILENCED ME!! MANY NATIVES THEMSELVES HAVE SILENCED ME AND SAID THAT NOBODY CARES ABOUT PELTIER...TO JUST LET HIM DIE!! MANY ACTIVISTS IN THE LNG MOVEMENT HAVE TOLD ME TO SHUT UP! I CANNOT DO THAT. I WAS GIVEN THIS WORK BY CREATOR!! PLEASE HELP ME!! PLEASE GET THIS TO 500 AND I WILL PERSONALLY STAGE PROTESTS AND MARCH IN OLYMPIA AND CAMP OUT EVEN IF IT IS BY MYSELF AND I WILL DELIVER THIS PETITION HAND DELIVERED!!!SPIRIT FLIES by Rebekah LaSala And then the man with the brown face and orange paint said, tears streaming down, love shooting out from his eyes, my Cherokee grandfather in disguise, “You FLY sister, among the EAGLES, and you SOAR HIGH IN THE SPIRIT WORLD, PLANES AND REALMS, but they reject you. They reject you because you speak the truth. But we love you and we see you. And he gave me the pipe, as h as shown up in my dreams before, and the feathers and he said “Cry” and “Heal” and he said “FEEL, DON’T GO NUMB” HE SAID, "Your spirit flies...INTO THE SPIRIT WORLD. YOUR SPIRIT FLIES!!" And I feel to the ground and I cried and I said, “Someone lied about me and said I was insincere, not genuine, not real. The people turned their backs on me when my feet bled for Peltier across the country, to bring power to the people again, as Creator told me to do, when I was 19, and then as a Bernie Sanders delegate and then in the LNG ...but they turned their back on me.” He said, “They oppress you because you speak the truth.” THEY OPPRESS YOU BECAUSE YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH. THAT VOICE, THIS PIPE, IS YOUR POWER. THAT VOICE, THIS PIPE, IS YOUR POWER. You fly, sister, AMONG THE EAGLES. And he disappeared. The next day, I saw the EAGLE above my head on the Interstate. I saw red fox jump in my way . I see animal totems every day. I saw smoke coming out of the pipe from the dream catcher on my wall. SPIRIT telling the story of it all. Of the ANCIENTS that live in my heart And won’t go away And I hear CRAZY HORSE singing and crying every day.-REBEKAH Strongbear 2018 01/26