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US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations
The Guardian ^ | 5/4/2012 | Chris McGreal

Posted on 05/04/2012 5:18:07 PM PDT by Beave Meister

A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.

James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.

Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of dispossession of their lands and resources, the breakdown of their societies and "numerous instances of outright brutality, all grounded on racial discrimination".

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: indians; liberals; un; unitednations
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The old rebel cry..."Get the UN out of the US and then get the US out of the UN."..
1 posted on 05/04/2012 5:18:18 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

UN...Get OUT!


2 posted on 05/04/2012 5:19:26 PM PDT by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Beave Meister

Tell the UN to wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which fills up.


3 posted on 05/04/2012 5:20:07 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Beave Meister

Ok who has the holey blue helmet picture?


4 posted on 05/04/2012 5:21:11 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now.)
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To: Beave Meister

So how much will Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren get?


5 posted on 05/04/2012 5:22:12 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Molon Labbie

6 posted on 05/04/2012 5:24:19 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Beave Meister

Obmalamadingdong will if it’s politically expedient for him to do so.


7 posted on 05/04/2012 5:24:19 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: Molon Labbie

8 posted on 05/04/2012 5:24:42 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Beave Meister

The UN needs to go F#CK themselves, and keep their ignorant noses out of our business. FTUN.


9 posted on 05/04/2012 5:25:50 PM PDT by Mich Patriot (Today if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. RReagan)
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To: Beave Meister

Perhaps we should start with a piece of land on Manhattan Island along the East River.


10 posted on 05/04/2012 5:28:09 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Beave Meister; All
Uh, how exactly was the land "stolen"? It was won through force of arms, or dealmaking (as with all of Manhattan Island). Does every other nation on Earth have to also "return" their land to its "original" inhabitants? From what date to what date? Do we return Israel to the Turks? Or All of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, part of Iraq and all of the Sinai to Israel? And how about the fact that the "American Indians" were not even the first to enter this continent? Recent Smithsonian research asserts that Ice Age Europeans beat the so-called "Native Americans" to North America by as much as 10,000 years. So shouldn't the Indians return THEIR land (and casino profits) to the Europeans?
11 posted on 05/04/2012 5:28:28 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Beave Meister

A-typical U.N. “investigator” with an agenda seeks confirmation of U.N. agenda he’s paid to investigate (with our tax dollars undoubtedly), finds cooperative “victims”, and of course is open to discussion of all sides of the issues of course /S.

That would be why American members of Congress were all lined up to discuss the matter with him /S.

Tell ‘em to bugger off.


12 posted on 05/04/2012 5:28:58 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Beave Meister

The United Nazis need to get a clue. We are a sovereign nation and we do not take orders from socialist scum.

We need to kick these corrupt jerks OUT of the US ASAP!


13 posted on 05/04/2012 5:29:26 PM PDT by mardi59 (THE REBELLION IS ON!!!)
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To: SkyDancer

Maybe we can give them Manhattan Island, turn the UN building into a casino and call it a day.


14 posted on 05/04/2012 5:30:31 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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To: Beave Meister

In honor of Star Wars Day, I’ll say this:

“The UN. There isn’t a more wretched hive of scum and villainny in the entire galaxy.”


15 posted on 05/04/2012 5:32:57 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Beave Meister

LOL! Great idea.


16 posted on 05/04/2012 5:33:04 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote!)
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To: reg45; Beave Meister
Perhaps we should start with a piece of land on Manhattan Island along the East River.

that was paid for fair and square.

17 posted on 05/04/2012 5:33:04 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: Beave Meister
Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations,

Two weeks?........Well with such in depth study how could you doubt him?

18 posted on 05/04/2012 5:36:04 PM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Beave Meister

If we go back far enough I think there was a time when one of my ancestors owned tens of thousands of acres in Scotland. Give it to me!


19 posted on 05/04/2012 5:36:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: montag813

I agree with all you are saying except for one part.....Israel has always had a deed to their land. It was given to them in the book of Genesis. It is the only country in the existence of mankind that has a deed to the land.


20 posted on 05/04/2012 5:42:48 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, border)
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