Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 3265

Published: Sept. 9, 2023, midnight

Tonight's special guest is Elizabeth Knight (aka Willow Moon) from Savanna, Illinois, a child abuse survivor who's a speaker on the mismanagement of Native American rights. Elizabeth explains that she's an elder granddaughter of America sex trade 'Trail of Tears' survivor and the first Chief-Tess to petition for a house bill to congress a new treaty for all Native American women. "I like native history and it laws and treaties," she says. "Mine is a landmark case on Native American issues." These include government abuse, hate crimes, false arrests, FBI, sheriff's and jail abuse. Police brutality, court violations, white school abuse and sexual abuse are also included. "I serve on the work force." They address college sexual harassment, stalking, childhood rape, survivors of interstate kidnapping, shooting survivors, contract violations and constitutional violations. "I'm single now and 63 years old. I have two daughters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. I was born Indiana, raised in Florida and Georgia, and now live in Illinois." She's a member of the Native American Coalition of the Quad Cities. Elizabeth tells the story of Sacagawea, born c. 1788 into the Agaidika ('Salmon Eater') tribe near present-day Salmon, Idaho. "Sacagawea was with Lewis and Clark." Her life was not what everyone believes. She suffered rape, sexual abuse, trauma and the pain she of being a young mother, like Pocahontas. Elizabeth says, "We were sex slaves [and] the truth has ever been told. I will tell the truth to really. What happened from 1692 forward to present day with our art, culture, and art treaties in our government." She concludes, "That promise gives our land back.