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Indian Country Today - May 19, 2006
On May 15, America - via its Supreme Court - told the Indian people of New York state, principally the Haudenosaunee, that they don't count.
The high court shrugged off a petition to review the apparent destruction of the Cayuga land claim settlement by a New York court decision.
That Cayuga decision came on the heels of the now infamous City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York case of 2005, when the Oneida attempt to buy and restore ancestral reservation land back into tribal jurisdiction was dashed against a wall of manipulated intolerance that reached the ears and eyes of the Supreme Court and allowed it to deny a true day of reckoning for the Indian peoples.
The Supreme Court had previously ruled the lands in question were, in fact, stolen.
The land cases themselves are foolproof. New York, like all states always intent on diminishing Indian holdings, coerced the lands from the Indian nations against federal law that prohibited such transactions.
These Indian lands were guaranteed, after major concessions and treaty agreements, and in the case of the Oneida Nation, after loyal and valiant service to the new Americans in their revolution against England.
What happened?
Why did a Supreme Court that only a generation ago fully affirmed the just cause claims of the New York nations now gut the right to remedy on such claims?
Why did the high court thwart the final possibility of justice from the most dispossessed people in the country?...
Without the American public or the citizens of states and regions on our side, American Indians and Natives, tribal sovereignties and jurisdictions, are imperiled in America.
