Contemplations for the 2008 Presidential Election:
While talking to Mike Tommarillo of the ninth, while at Lunch this past Saturday--we were discussing potential candidates for the 2008 presidential election; the subject of Russell Means came up. So me--being the inquisitive person that I am--decided to do some research.
From what I can discover from the basic information I can gather up--Means is a member of the American Indian Movement, and currently runs a TI school on the Pine Ridge Reservation that's influnced by the Maori Total Immersion schools in New Zealand, but focused towards Lakota traditions and culture.
Russell Means' filmography:
Wind River
Pocahontas
Wagons East
Natural Born Killers
Windrunner
Last of the Mohicans
His television credits include:
Profiler
Touched By An Angel
Walker, Texas Ranger
Nash Bridges
The Song of Hiawatha
Pathfinder
Buffalo Girls
HBO documentary: The Struggle for the Paha Sapa (Black Hills)
THE JESSE JACKSON SHOW: Special Correspondent: 1990
In 1993, he started a Indigenous Film company called "T.R.E.A.T.Y. Productions" which is an indie film company with one released film to it's credit; and three screen plays:
Looks Twice
Wounded Knee
Rising From the Ashes
The Unknown War
Means is also a collaborator with Marvin J. Wolf on his (Mean's) auto-biography, Where White Men Fear to Tread.
In 2002, he conducted a failed gubenatorial campaign for governor of the state of New Mexico; and then went on to become 'President' of the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, and is currently engaging a lawsuit against the state of New Mexico for certain practices that discriminate against minor party candidates--though how and why he missed filing the application in July of 2001 and then in August as a write-in remains a bit unclear... although if the suits are any suggestion, maybe he did apply and something was done internally to make sure his name wasn't on the ballot?
From what I've read of his site, it seems interesting--but in trying to track down current information about whether or not he's running as a presidential candidate in 2008 seem to be decidedly lacking. Overall--his platform from the 2002 bid for New Mexican Governor seem well made... although I'm not sure how the people of New Mexico would have felt becoming an independent political entity sovereign from the United States--an act that probably would have required seccession... and we ALL know what happened the last time states tried to secede from the 'Union'. While still technically constitutionally permissible--any state that tries to secede from the United States can expect the U.S. Military to attack.
Links to his website can be found:
http://www.russellmeans.com/governor/news_02.html
http://www.russellmeans.com/
Does any one have any further information?
From what I can discover from the basic information I can gather up--Means is a member of the American Indian Movement, and currently runs a TI school on the Pine Ridge Reservation that's influnced by the Maori Total Immersion schools in New Zealand, but focused towards Lakota traditions and culture.
Russell Means' filmography:
Wind River
Pocahontas
Wagons East
Natural Born Killers
Windrunner
Last of the Mohicans
His television credits include:
Profiler
Touched By An Angel
Walker, Texas Ranger
Nash Bridges
The Song of Hiawatha
Pathfinder
Buffalo Girls
HBO documentary: The Struggle for the Paha Sapa (Black Hills)
THE JESSE JACKSON SHOW: Special Correspondent: 1990
In 1993, he started a Indigenous Film company called "T.R.E.A.T.Y. Productions" which is an indie film company with one released film to it's credit; and three screen plays:
Looks Twice
Wounded Knee
Rising From the Ashes
The Unknown War
Means is also a collaborator with Marvin J. Wolf on his (Mean's) auto-biography, Where White Men Fear to Tread.
In 2002, he conducted a failed gubenatorial campaign for governor of the state of New Mexico; and then went on to become 'President' of the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, and is currently engaging a lawsuit against the state of New Mexico for certain practices that discriminate against minor party candidates--though how and why he missed filing the application in July of 2001 and then in August as a write-in remains a bit unclear... although if the suits are any suggestion, maybe he did apply and something was done internally to make sure his name wasn't on the ballot?
From what I've read of his site, it seems interesting--but in trying to track down current information about whether or not he's running as a presidential candidate in 2008 seem to be decidedly lacking. Overall--his platform from the 2002 bid for New Mexican Governor seem well made... although I'm not sure how the people of New Mexico would have felt becoming an independent political entity sovereign from the United States--an act that probably would have required seccession... and we ALL know what happened the last time states tried to secede from the 'Union'. While still technically constitutionally permissible--any state that tries to secede from the United States can expect the U.S. Military to attack.
Links to his website can be found:
http://www.russellmeans.com/governor/news_02.html
http://www.russellmeans.com/
Does any one have any further information?