Posted on 05/08/2012 5:50:31 PM PDT by Starman417
Maybe Elizabeth Warren can get 1/32 of it (Yeah, I know- Cherokee, not Sioux) and Ward Churchill...well...nevermind:
South Dakota's Black Hills, home to the granite faces carved into Mt. Rushmore, should be restored as Native American tribal lands, a United Nations official recently said.James Anaya, a U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people, completed a fact-finding mission on Friday that included meetings with a number of Native American tribal leaders as well as White House officials. His investigation led him to suggest that the United States take additional steps to repair the nation's legacy of oppression against Native Americans.
[James Anaya] met with representatives of indigenous peoples in the District of Columbia, Arizona, Alaska, Oregon, Washington State, South Dakota, and Oklahoma. He also met with U.S. government officials."I have heard stories that make evident the profound hurt that indigenous peoples continue to feel because of the history of oppression they have faced," Anaya said in a statement issued by the U.N. human rights office in Geneva.
That oppression, he said, has included the seizure of lands and resources, the removal of children from their families and communities, the loss of languages, violation of treaties, and brutality, all grounded in racial discrimination.
Anaya welcomed the U.S. decision to endorse the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2010 and other steps the government has taken, but said more was needed. His findings will be included in a final report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council. While not binding, the recommendations carry moral weight that can influence governments.
"It is clear that this history does not just blemish the past, but translates into present day disadvantage for indigenous peoples in the country," Anaya said.
"There have still not been adequate measures of reconciliation to overcome the persistent legacies of the history of oppression, and that there is still much healing that needs to be done," he said.
~~~ "Past uncontrolled and irresponsible extractive activities, including uranium mining in the Southwest, have resulted in the contamination of indigenous peoples' water sources and other resources, and in numerous documented negative health effects among Native Americans," he said.
He said indigenous peoples feel they have too little control over geographic regions considered sacred to them, like the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona and the Black Hills in South Dakota. Anaya suggested such lands should be returned to Native peoples.
"Securing the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands is of central importance to indigenous peoples' socioeconomic development, self-determination, and cultural integrity," Anaya said.
"Continued efforts to resolve, clarify, and strengthen the protection of indigenous lands, resources, and sacred sites should be made," he added.
Mount Rushmore, a popular tourist attraction, is located in the Black Hills, which the Sioux tribe consider to be sacred and have territorial claims to based on an 1868 treaty. Shortly after that treaty was signed, gold was discovered in the region. U.S. Congress eventually passed a law taking over the land.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that the seizure of the land was illegal and ordered the government to pay compensation. But the Sioux rejected the money and has continued to demand the return of the now public lands.
Are Native Americans still being oppressed? Are they a separate people from the rest of America? At what point in history do we let go and move on? A generation? 100 years? 200 years? A millennium? Never? To always hold grudges and claim victimhood for one's situation today due to what happened to one's ancestors, generations removed? And what of those Americans of "oppressed ancestry" who are currently experiencing great prosperity in today's America? Who have benefited because of the course America took- good and bad, just and unjust- in its formulation?
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Hay UN, Blow it out your ar$e!
tx_eggman to U.N. : Jump up and bite the fat part of my ass.
Just sayin'
United Abominations.
US to UN: Get the hell out of our country!
the main oppression an indian faces today is that the reservation is a large socialist collective. The cannot own a patch of land,, buy and sell their home, etc. A business cannot build a location there. Walmart couldnt build a store there unless they were happy to build it on land someone else owned.
So no jobs.
On most reservations,,liquor is illegal.
The indian today is living the full dream of socialism,, that is their problem.
Give us our land back and get the hell out of this country. We hate your guts!
Hey UN! The UN building is on former Indian land. Why don’t set an example and give it to your favorite tribe then go home.
UN, shove it up your collective smelly Obamas.
Great idea, UN!
As a pilot program to test the feasibility, we are handing your entire NYC complex over to the Seminole Nation. Casino and FSU football memorabilia shop to open soon.
The Comanche and Apache will share the franchise for collection on all past UN parking tickets. They have decided to make an IPO on the NYSE. Initial Buy call was $736/share.
BTW, Diplomatic immunity has been revoked for ALL UN delegates above the rank of floor sweeper or tea cart server.
Oh, one more thing. USA “dues” to the UN will henceforth be used to pay down the National Debt.
Have a nice day, and don’t let the door hit you...
GET THE US OUT OF THE UN AND GET THE UN OUT OF THE US circa 1962
Whitey, take Telemundo and get out of Mesoamerica!
Given that the UN is approximately 70 % OIC, they will do anything to aid the destruction of America now that they have their point man in OUR White House.
What the UN and its members need to do is return the lands they looted from the Jews and Christians during their imperialistic drives.
Once THEY return all of the Jews lands to Israel THEN they might be in a position to say something.
English, get out of the british isles and go back to the low country. All you people currently speaking a romance language, get your asses back to italy. You are trespassing.
And as for you, you damn native americans, start hiking it back across the berring straight toot sweet. You’ve been squatting on this land far too long.
There are no indigenous people left anywhere. With the possible exception of the Basque in Spain everybody seems to be living on land previously occupied by somebody else. The American Indians lost the land through conquest; the same real estate transfer protocol they used.
UNaccountable bureaucrats ARE useless eaters.
Heard zero, with the help of Hildabeast and others are working behind closed doors on secret treaties with the UN giving them control over US land, seas, sharing US technology, obligating US to feed poorer nations, criminaly taxing oil companies, businesses and US citizens and using this money in what ever way they feel neccesary. We need to prosecute these treasonist bastards
Heard zero, with the help of Hildabeast and others are working behind closed doors on secret treaties with the UN giving them control over US land, seas, sharing US technology, obligating US to feed poorer nations, criminaly taxing oil companies, businesses and US citizens and using this money in what ever way they feel neccesary. We need to prosecute these treasonist bastards
U.S. to U.N.: Kiss my red, white, and blue a$$.
You lost.
Next time show up with rifles, wheels and horses.....
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