From: | BillT@*********.com BillT@*********.com |
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Subject: | Beginning of the Second Great Land Grab... |
Date: | Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:52:56 -0700 |
Now the Washington State GOP has introduced a resolution to remove
Native American sovereignty and tribal land rights. This is the type
of action that resulted in Amerindians in Shadowrun to fight for
their land and be put in camps (again).
The newspaper reports that the Republican Party passed a resolution
at its state
convention calling for the end of tribal governments. A briefly
debated resolution calls on the federal government to "take whatever
steps necessary to terminate all such non-republican forms of
government on Indian reservations, and compensate those citizens who
have wrongly suffered loss due to denial of their
constitutionally guaranteed rights to be governed by a republican form of
government." (No words about compensating tribal members for stripping
their property rights.) In other words: pay the non-Indian residents
of reservations, tell tribal governments to roll up and go away, and
move on.
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=trah06m&date
000706&query=republican+indian
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