IS FEDERAL RECOGNITION REALLY A GOOD THING?
THEN WHY MUST NATIVE AMERICANS FIGHT THE US GOVERNMENT TO KEEP THEIR OWN LANDS ?
A Native American group has renewed its push for equal treatment in the wake of a supportive ruling from the world’s highest human rights body.
The decision, issued by a committee of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights, sternly rebuked the US government for civil and human rights violations against the Western Shoshone Nation.
Indigenous rights groups say the Distribution Act could legitimize the pattern of rights abuses and land exploitation that have been escalating for the past generation, unchecked by courts or lawmakers.
Tim Coulter, executive director of the Indian Law Resource Center, said that unlike individual US citizens, who enjoy full constitutional protections, "Congress has for all intents and purposes completely unlimited power to do as it pleases with [Native American nations] and their property."
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