Talk:Clyde Bellecourt

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While Clyde Bellecourt was arrested and convicted of possession of LSD with intent in the 1980's and released in 1988, Vernon was never arrested nor shown to have any participation in that. Please reference the Bureau of Prisons site (http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=bellecourt&Middle=&FirstName=clyde&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0) where you will find Clyde but not Vernon.

Also the United States Public Access to Court Records (PACER) at https://pacer.login.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl?court_id=00idx

You will see Vernon Bellecourt has two federal cases 1:96-cv-04457 regarding a suit against the City of Chicago and the DNC. And 5:73-cv-05030 Quigley vs American Indian Movement. Neither a criminal offense. Similar searches of Hennepin County, MN and other courtr records will reveal similar lack of an arrest for drugs.

Clyde's arrest is a matter of public record.

Furthermore his history of working with Indian children in Minneapolis since through the revitalization of Heart of the Earth or his scholarship program show the man is a human being overcoming his flaws. To utilize Wikipedia to attack the brothers is unconscionable.

Wolakota (Wolakota 18:41, 19 June 2006 (UTC))