August 9: International Day of the World’s Indigenous People.
Milo Yellow Hair, 73, lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In 1992, he met German Green Party co-founders Petra Kelly and Eva Quistorp at the anti-nuclear conference in Salzburg, Austria. “They and the Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky were the first to give us Native Americans a chance to promote our case in Europe,” Yellow Hair says.
Karl May’s “Winnetou” books also helped, he adds. That they should now be cancelled as political incorrect, the Oglala Lakota cannot comprehend. After all, pale face Old Shatterhand was the sidekick in these stories – and Winnetou the hero.
Milo Yellow Hair has a program on biodynamic agriculture on the local Pine Ridge radio station KILI and works together with the Arbeitskreis Indianer Nordamerikas (Working Group North American Indians) in Vienna.