Interview: Sitting Bull on Human Trafficking

by Amanda Kloer · 2009-07-20 09:25:00 UTC
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Each week, I will be bringing you a new interview with a formerly-active activist or abolitionist, that is, someone now deceased.  I'll be talking to the men and women who paved the way for the abolitionists of today and getting their thoughts on the problems and solutions of modern-day slavery.  How do I contact not just the dead, but the famous and dead?  Every good blogger must have her secrets!

This week... Sitting Bull

How's the afterlife treating you?

It is quite peaceful.

For those non-biography readers out there, how about you tell me a little about yourself.

I was a Native American holy man and leader, most famous for defeating General Custer at the Battle at Little Big Horn to protect our lands.  I have become an archetype of the Native American resistance movement and a hero to minorities fighting oppression by governments.

What do you think is the biggest problem in the modern-day abolitionist movement?

We live in a world where people take what is not rightfully theirs- labor, land, women, children.  And there is not enough outrage over this.  There is no feeling that ultimately, this is stealing.

If you were alive, what would you do to fight slavery?

I would stand with the ethnic and religious groups who are being persecuted by states and governments and support them in their fight for rights.  Until there is respect for equality, there can be no true freedom for anyone.

Any last thoughts for our readers?

Even before they did Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I was an Indigo Girls fan.

Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
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