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On November 25, 1999 the dominant society will take turns picking at their turkeys. Members and supporters of Florida AIM will be conducting a sunrise to sunset fast on the steps of the state capitol as we have since 1990.

Many are unaware that Thanksgiving originated in the Governor of Massachusetts giving thanks that they were able to massacre nearly 1,000 Pequot and Wampanoag peoples in 1637. While President Abraham Lincoln, who ordered the mass hanging of 38 Dakota patriots, officially declared thanksgiving in this country at the end of the civil war, it appears the Gov of Mass. idea and tradition continues.

The murders of Lakotas in Mobridge, Sisseton, Rapid City and White Clay remains unsolved. The Mic Mac, and Passamaquoddy people face the threat of losing their lives for simply fishing and hunting. Oneida and Seminole Nations have come under attack for exercising their sovereign rights. The lands of the Western Shoshone and Dine remain under threat. Nuclear waste and toxic waste remain to be dumped on Indian land.... Indian people can't even rest in peace and the judge's dismissal of the Robert Many Horses case shows killing an Indian remains less of a crime than killing a Moose out of season.

In 1970 AIM held the first National Day of Mourning. Florida AIM has held one since 1986 and since 1990 at the steps of the state capitol. We will do so to honor the ones who have gone before, we will so to honor the ones here now and the ones yet to come. We ask all who can to join us in our sunrise to sunset fast at the steps of the State Capitol in a Day of Mourning.