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Obama Announces Support for UN Resolution Stating 'Indigenous Peoples ...
CNSNEWS ^ | December 21, 2010 | Penny Starr

Posted on 12/21/2010 11:53:50 AM PST by yoe

President Barack Obama, addressing a tribal nations conference at the White House last week, announded that the U.S. government is now supporting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which includes a sweeping declaration that "indigenous peoples" have a right to lands and resources they traditionally occupied or "otherwise used."

"Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired," says the U.N. resolution.

The Bush administration had declined to support the resolution.

At the White House Tribal Nations Conference, Obama reminded the group that last year he signed a resolution passed by Congress that “finally” recognizes “the sad and painful chapters in our shared history--a history too often marred by broken promises and grave injustices against the First Americans,” he said.

The president added that “no statement can undo the damage that was done,” but he said the resolution can “help reaffirm the principles that should guide our future.”

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To: montyspython

The bower-in-chief...socialism must be stopped!


61 posted on 12/21/2010 12:45:44 PM PST by freebird5850 (When 0bama fails, FREEDOM prevails!)
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To: yoe

What tribes originally inhabited Washington DC?

This statement means that, maybe, the USA will honor the Treaty of Fort Laramie and will give back unused lands to the original tribe that lived there.

Considering that the Europeans (White Man) selected places where it was easy to set up and live, that means that almost all of these places had people already there. So if he means it, most cities will be turned over.

I never thought that this admin would turn out to be so entertaining!


62 posted on 12/21/2010 12:50:15 PM PST by DBrow
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To: hennie pennie
Well, actually ALL of Scandinavia, and Scotland, the Orkneys, the Hebrides, and maybe some other chunks of real estate. With 9,000,000 Sa'ami in America we need a lot of room.

(NOTE: America been very very good to Sa'ami ~ so nobody goin' back /s)

63 posted on 12/21/2010 12:51:11 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: yoe

I thought Obama’s Indian name was, “He of much bullshit?”


64 posted on 12/21/2010 12:52:06 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (A Jimmy Carter got us a Ronald Reagan......A Barack Obama will get us a Sarah Palin)
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To: montyspython
Alas, we'd have to go back to Italy, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Switzerland ~ and kick out everybody else and give it to the Albanians (they appear to have been the indigenous people in that area).

All those other guys will have to go back to Bulgaria!

Be a tight fit eh!

65 posted on 12/21/2010 12:53:34 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: yoe

Oh good. I’ll take a farm in Roscommon, Ireland, where my paternal ancestors lived before the Limey b*st*rds drove them off in 1820. Let me know the location when it’s ready Barry. You can leave the keys under the front door mat.


66 posted on 12/21/2010 12:53:59 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!)
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To: yoe

Can’t wait for the look on the faces of the lefties inhabiting ‘Indigenous Peoples’ traditional land of Manhattan, NY when the Indians hand the lefties a set of beads and tell the lefties to get the hell out of THEIR Central Park West condos.


67 posted on 12/21/2010 12:54:00 PM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Java4Jay

The Indians were murdering and slaughtering each other long before the white man came to the Americas.

Maybe we should give the whole planet to the descendants of Adam and Eve.


68 posted on 12/21/2010 12:54:34 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (A Jimmy Carter got us a Ronald Reagan......A Barack Obama will get us a Sarah Palin)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Turkey? Going back pretty far it’d probably be immigrants from SE Asia or something. Lots of folks been through there.


69 posted on 12/21/2010 12:54:48 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: All

“last year he signed a resolution passed by Congress “

Anyone have a clue what resolution this was? I don’t think it was a Senate vote adopting the treaty.


70 posted on 12/21/2010 12:54:49 PM PST by DBrow
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To: yoe
I would support this as far as returning the land with one condition. The government buys the property and improvements on it. It then bulldozes and removes every improvement on the property leaving only native trees and plants. That includes getting rid of gardens, lawns, parks, fountains, etc., etc. Then it can return it to the indigenous people in the condition it was when they either sold it or it was taken from them.
71 posted on 12/21/2010 12:56:54 PM PST by ProudFossil
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To: george123
So does this mean that if some indian comes in your house and says it is his by virtue of it sitting on some land he thinks is yours that you have to quietly move out?

It would appear so.

I was driving up highway 95 north of Las Vegas last year and observed a string of wilting willow saplings every few miles on the road. There was no sign and it was obvious that someone had planted them. I talked to some locals in Tonopah (between Reno and Las Vegas) about it and they told me the local indian tribe (name forgotten) had planted the trees in a ceremony designed to return the "stolen" land back to them. The "stolen" land in question is the Nevada Test Site.

The Kenyan may want to set an example and hand the Test Site (millions of acres of federal land) over to the indigenous folks there in southern Nevada.

72 posted on 12/21/2010 12:57:11 PM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: UCANSEE2

so, is obama going to restore the black hills to the Crow land that the Sioux stole from them long ago?


73 posted on 12/21/2010 12:57:21 PM PST by omegadawn (qualified)
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To: mckenzie7

I doubt that we could pay Indians to take Chicago back!!


74 posted on 12/21/2010 1:00:48 PM PST by omegadawn (qualified)
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To: yoe

The collective leadership of the entire planet have lost their collective minds - it seems everything they do anymore is motivated by their hatred of the white people of the world.


75 posted on 12/21/2010 1:04:12 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

european ancestry Driver: “ oh that? that’s just a bottle of wife I got for my wife”

native american ancestry Hitchhiker: “good trade”


76 posted on 12/21/2010 1:05:01 PM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: 2harddrive

Actually , research has shown that at one time (12-15 thousand years ago) America was populated by whites. White Americans didn’t steal land from the Indians, merely recovering stolen property!.


77 posted on 12/21/2010 1:05:28 PM PST by omegadawn (qualified)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Native’s battles/wars over control of hunting grounds is not murder or slaughter; it’s survival of the fittest.

On the other hand when our government handed Natives free blankets tainted with small pox to eradicate thousands of men, woman and children, that is murder/slaughter… more like genocide.


78 posted on 12/21/2010 1:05:52 PM PST by Java4Jay
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To: muawiyah

According to the Albanians they were also indigenous to Detroit. Funny thing about Kosovo is that there is NO archeological evidence of any kind whatsoever that proves they were there before the Serbs, they still keep trying to pimp the Illyrian connection ad nauseum.


79 posted on 12/21/2010 1:08:44 PM PST by montyspython
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To: yoe

Goodbye Texas and Arizona. Start packing up in North Ga. A new Trail of Tears is coming to town.


80 posted on 12/21/2010 1:11:24 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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