Councillor aims for stars
The Rocket Man and the funky monk have let Bryan Pepperell use their social networking MySpace web pages to promote his idea that the US Government apologise for the harm caused to native tribes.
One of Mr Obamas staff also took a brief break from helping him in his quest for the Democrat presidential nomination to reply to Mr Pepperells e-mail.
The reply said the most important native American issue was the development of authentic government-to-government relationships between the federal government and Indian tribes.
Mr Pepperell is still waiting for replies from President George W Bush and Mr Obamas Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, on whether they would issue an apology.
America is such an important country and if it cant get this right, how can it ever hold itself up as a leader of the world? Mr Pepperell said.
Singers Willie Nelson, the Neville Brothers and Linda Ronstadt have also opened up their MySpace pages to Mr Pepperells quest, with readers asked to leave messages of support.
It is only through reading about the history, going through the documents, and talking to some friends I have met on MySpace that I have decided to do this, Mr Pepperell said.
I also thought that since the Australian Government had the guts to front its [Aboriginal] issues recently, and start down the path of compensation and reconciliation, that I should pick up this issue, he said.
