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Ai Wei Wei

  • The text reads: Litekyan, proclamation, with typhoon wind, a precedent set by the white man’s purchase, from alcatraces, pelicans, prutehi, freedom within constraints, Litekyan, twenty-four dollars ($24) in glass beads, Fakmåta Guåhan! Barsandbullets, we protest life-fire training range complex, prutehi, prutehi, gone the hurricane of further desecrations, Litekyan, we offer this treaty in good faith, this tiny island would be a symbol of the great lands once ruled by free and noble Indians, fledglings swal

    Calls to Demand the Return (for a Fair Price, in Good Faith) or, With Typhoon Wind: We, Prisoners of Conscience, Protest Bars and Bullets, Swallowed Fledglings, the Gone Hurricane of Pelicans (from alcatraces), and Further Desecrations

    October 8, 2019 Lehua M. Taitano
    after Ai Wei Wei, Michael Lujan Bevacqua, and various documents of protest by Indigenous dissidents1,2    

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