The U.S. is anything but compliant when it comes to indigenous rights. This is the same United Nations Committee which found the U.S. in violation of Fundamental Human Rights in the case of the Western Shoshone (see attached Urgent Action decision and briefing sheet). The U.S. has failed to respond to this decision and is now rescheduling a 700 ton detonation on Shoshone lands called “Divine Strake”. The U.S. continues to threaten Western Shoshone with trespass notices and fines while pushing forward on mining exploration, expansion and privatization on the same lands.
The U.S. justifies their historic and ongoing actions against indigenous peoples by using the Doctrine of Discovery as the basis of Federal Indian law and policy. This Doctrine says indigenous peoples are less than other humans – “heathen”, “savage” and “childlike in nature”.
WE NEED Your Help! This legacy of racism and colonialism must go! Please submit your organizations’ or individual comments to U.S. State Department’s consultant Mary Beth West at west.marybeth@gmail.com by mid-January. Please highlight any indigenous rights violations that you are aware of or are experiencing. Let’s not let them push these issues to the back burners.
Please continue for more information …
http://www.wsdp.org/un_cerd_wsdp.htm#compliance010407
Please also see:
Should the Vatican rescind papal bulls?
From http://lawlib.lclark.edu/blog/native_america
On August 4, 2006, there was a gathering of Indian nations and people from North and South America at Mato Paha (Bear Butte). They issued a call to the Vatican and the Queen of England to rescind the Doctrine of Discovery inspired papal bulls of 1493 and the English royal charter of 1496 that alleged to create legal rights for Europeans over the lands and peoples of the Americas.
http://www.bringbacktheway.com
http://www.gopetition.com/online/10310.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indigenous_peoples_literature/message/19481
The U.S. justifies their historic and ongoing actions against indigenous peoples by using the Doctrine of Discovery as the basis of Federal Indian law and policy. This Doctrine says indigenous peoples are less than other humans – “heathen”, “savage” and “childlike in nature”.
WE NEED Your Help! This legacy of racism and colonialism must go! Please submit your organizations’ or individual comments to U.S. State Department’s consultant Mary Beth West at west.marybeth@gmail.com by mid-January. Please highlight any indigenous rights violations that you are aware of or are experiencing. Let’s not let them push these issues to the back burners.
Please continue for more information …
http://www.wsdp.org/un_cerd_wsdp.htm#compliance010407
Please also see:
Should the Vatican rescind papal bulls?
From http://lawlib.lclark.edu/blog/native_america
On August 4, 2006, there was a gathering of Indian nations and people from North and South America at Mato Paha (Bear Butte). They issued a call to the Vatican and the Queen of England to rescind the Doctrine of Discovery inspired papal bulls of 1493 and the English royal charter of 1496 that alleged to create legal rights for Europeans over the lands and peoples of the Americas.
http://www.bringbacktheway.com
http://www.gopetition.com/online/10310.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indigenous_peoples_literature/message/19481