Kiowa Tribal Land, Marijuana Bust--August 11 & 12, 2010--Part II.wmv

Part II: On the morning of Wednesday, August 11, 2010 B.I.A. officers, state officers, and Caddo County officers conducted a "marijuana raid" on the Lone Bear original allotment near Carnegie, OK. It was a covert operation since the land owners nor any of the Lone Bear descendants were notified of the pending action. The action began at 5:30am and one suspect of Mexican descent was arrested while another was said to have escaped?! When I saw the helicopter on the morning of August 11 and was told that a local news van passed by the house I decided to investigate the situation. The Lone Bear allotment is a Kiowa tribal allotment belonging to the Kiowa Lone Bear who received the 160 acre plot in 1901 as did each member of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Kiowa-Apache tribes. However, the Lone Bear property held signicance in the history of the Kiowa people because it was the gathering site for the Kiowa Tai-Piah Gaw, a Kiowa Warrior's Society. The Kiowa Tai-Piah Gaw continued to meet annually on this ground up until 1927. This is the cultural and historic significance that the Lone Bear's Old Dance Ground once had to the Kiowa community. Eventually, I made my way to the west perimeter of the allotment where I saw smoke rising up from the creek--which we call "Cedar Creek". When I climbed down into the familar creek botttom I saw approximately 20 men dressed in SWAT camos, boots, and armed to the teeth with AR-15s, Glocks, and even grenades. One officer saw me taking videos and approched me. He stated to me that they would have to conficate my camera and I told him, "no, you will not". My position regarding this matter was that eventhough these were the authorities to my knowledge they did not ask any of the land owners to conduct these operations. Fortunately, a B.I.A. and a local officer came to diffused the situation as this one officer and I were beginning to square off. I was informed by the BIA officer that the authorities had been informed by a local famer regarding the illegal activity in the creek and they had been monitoring the Mexican marijuana growers for sometime. Of late, Mexican Nationals have been funding and sending Mexican marijuana growers into Oklahoma to grow marijuana crops on Indian lands. As an American Indian and as a Kiowa I feel this is not only a wrongful act all around on behalf of the illegal aliens but a discourtesy on behalf of the authorities. It seems as if everyone--including the United States of America--has historically taken advantage and disregarded the individual rights of the American Indian. I will keeping a closer watch on family property from this moment on. http://www.swoknews.com/Search.asp?Ke...