Posted on 12/30/2010 10:55:38 AM PST by re_tail20
President Obama is voicing support for a U.N. resolution that could accomplish something as radical as relinquishing some U.S. sovereignty and opening a path for the return of ancient tribal lands to American Indians, including even parts of Manhattan.
The issue is causing alarm among legal experts.
In recent remarks at the White House during a "tribal nations conference," Obama endorsed 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" but that later were acquired by occupying forces.
Read the scoop on the United Nations, in "The Beast on the East River"
"U.N. resolutions like this claiming amorphous rights can be a stalking horse for future attempts to have international courts enforce broad interpretations of those rights at the expense of American sovereignty," Theodore Frank, a fellow with the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, a leading public policy think tank in New York City, told WND.
Academic legal experts indicate that American Indians during the Carter era first drew up plans for reacquisition of lost tribal lands, setting the stage for the U.N. resolution that Obama is embracing. The feasibility study, eyeing 650 million acres of federally owned land in the U.S., was conducted by the Indian Education Institute at Eastern Oregon State, one expert recalled for WND.
"Re-purchase would restore land back to its original owners thus strengthening tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction over its people and land," Julianne Jennings Nottoway, a professor of anthropology at Pima Community College in Tuscon, Ariz., said. "Also, it would allow tribes the opportunity to develop socially, politically and economically as competitors as nation-states within a global context under the act of self-determination."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Whomever Kennewick man’s descendants are do because he predates “Native Americans” by a long shot.
[note that *everyone* “recognized” the definitively ~European~ face as -Scottish- Patrick Stewart]
She signed up 10 days too late.
:)
“Welcome to the “conversation” between me and Allegra.”
Oh, we’re sorry.
Are you two in a private chat room?
Please, do pardon everyone on FR for eavesdropping.
Judgment. Without much of a foundation. Did you see the "LOL" in my response? Yes, I was laughing.
I was not using “tough talk” in my question. “What’s your problem with WND?” is not tough; it’s just a question.
Cute. Your "question" was followed by your questioning my Christianity. You kind of left that part out, didn't you? Beleive me, anybody with half a brain can discern the tone of your post.
I’m used to seeing people ridicule and disparage WND, and most of them are put off by WND’s Christian perspective or what they perceive to be yellow journalism.
With me it's the latter - the hyperbole. What's your problem with someone daring to voice an opinon that differs from your own? In a benign manner, no less.
My assumption that it might be the Christianity of it was just that—an assumption.
Yes, and a baseless and rather crude assumption at that.
Those of us with eyes to see have ALL seen how the “media” twists and distorts the facts of life.
Not necessarily. My observations certainly differ.
Never mind.
You can't admit you might have been wrong and out of line, so this is the tack, eh? Frustrated by the fact that you aren't successful at peeing on my shoes and telling me it's raining? ;-)
"Never mind" is the appropriate approach if you're going to continue to spin and try to snow me.
I didn't just fall off the turnip truck yesterday, y'know.
If you can't take what you dish out, then keep your snarkiness to yourself. Otherwise, learn to deal with the consequences.
LOL - not me! Not with her! No way!
I shudder to imagine...heeheehee
HAHAHAHAHAHA....good catch. Just take one of the "1"s off and it's accurate.
Very good!
You can overthink these things, you know...
:-)
I think ancestor.com will be receiving a lot of hits.
Somewhere I have Indian blood. “Sweet”
Yes—A private chat room at the Silly Season Inn where it takes all kinds.
Marvelous, just marvelous you are!
You certainly can and that tends to lead to baseless assumptions. ;-)
And my great-great-jiggledy-squared-grandfather was there as a witness to it.
So give it back to the Dutch and see what they want to do with it.
Very interesting! I never knew that.
And my great-great-jiggledy-squared-grandfather was there as a witness to it.
So give it back to the Dutch and see what they want to do with it.
Sorry, but...
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way...
You remember Van Jones, the guy Beck got fired from this administration, he was saying the same thing so Obama must be listening to an avowed communists.
Yes! And lots of other assorted rabbit trails...
Now that Constantinople thing? That's a completely different matter altogether.
I’ve heard that’s nobody’s business but the Turks. YMMV. :)
You mean its not? ;>)
Come on, your PC sense is better than that! The Dutch don’t get anything out of this, the Canarsie win.
wow didn’t you hit the nail on the head with this one! great comment my friend!
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