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Post by jdredd on Sept 17, 2019 18:06:53 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/nyregion/highway-casino-seneca-ny.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=New%20York"In 2011, the conflict reignited, with the tribe claiming that the state had pressured it into accepting a one-time payment of $75,000 in 1954 to build the Thruway across its territory. The Senecas demanded the state pay it tens of millions of dollars in what it called back payments — tolls, essentially — for cars driving across the reservation. That claim is now memorialized on the Thruway: Next to the “rough road” sign, the tribe erected a “Welcome to the Seneca Nation” sign that asserts that the state owes the Senecas more than $675 million, or $1 per every car the tribe estimates has traveled through there. Last year, the tribe sued the state in federal court in Buffalo, claiming that New York had illegally built the Thruway on its land, and calling it “an affront to the Nation’s basic sovereignty and territorial integrity.” That case is still pending." Things would have been so much easier if the Europeans had been able to butcher ALL the Native Americans. But we are still trying to answer the question "Who owns America?".
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Post by jdredd on Feb 21, 2020 23:14:42 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/21/justin-trudeau-canada-rail-blockades"Justin Trudeau has demanded that protesters lift railway blockades that have been erected across Canada in support of Indigenous activists who are fighting a natural gas pipeline. “The situation as it currently stands is unacceptable and untenable,” the prime minister said on Friday afternoon. “Canadians have been patient. Our government has been patient. But it has been two weeks, and the barricades need to come down now.” It's the 21st Century yet the war against indigenous people by whites continues. At least against those tribes who aren't bought off.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 25, 2020 19:15:07 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/25/costa-rican-indigenous-land-activist-killed-by-armed-mob"Costa Rica, an eco-tourism hub with five million inhabitants, is widely considered the region’s most equitable and law abiding country. But in recent years, the Bribri and Brörán people have been subject to a string of violent attacks, racist harassment and trumped-up retaliatory lawsuits with almost total impunity. In 2013 Rivera survived a brutal beating while trying to stop illegal loggers. The alleged perpetrator was set free after being ordered not to return to Térraba for six months. As a result, in 2015 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued precautionary measures, calling on Costa Rican authorities to protect the lives and physical integrity of the Bribri and Brörán people. Rivera, Delgado and Ortiz were ostensibly recipients of these safety measures when attacked." Tribal lands being trashed in Canada, tribal activists murdered in eco-paradise Costa Rica. The 500-year struggle continues.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 13, 2020 22:52:36 GMT -5
So far I haven't heard of any casinos closing. Maybe the indians aren't as big of pussies as non-indians.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 17, 2020 12:33:13 GMT -5
All I've read so far is casinos reducing their hours. Thank God Wacky Newsom and his Health Nazis can't touch the indians! I think.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2020 20:28:50 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/25/dakota-access-pipeline-permits-court-standing-rock"The future of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline has been thrown into question after a federal court on Wednesday struck down its permits and ordered a comprehensive environmental review. The US army corps of engineers was ordered to conduct a full environmental impact statement (EIS), after the Washington DC court ruled that existing permits violated the National Environmental Policy Act (Nepa). The ruling is a huge victory for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota, which rallied support from across the world and sued the US government in a campaign to stop the environmentally risky pipeline being built on tribal lands. “After years of commitment to defending our water and earth, we welcome this news of a significant legal win,” said the tribal chairman, Mike Faith. “It’s humbling to see how actions we took to defend our ancestral homeland continue to inspire national conversations about how our choices ultimately affect this planet.”
Meanwhile, other things are happening beside the plague. Doesn't seem like the time to be pushing to add to the oil glut.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 1, 2020 16:52:31 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/31/trump-administration-revokes-mashpee-wampanoag-tribe-reservation-status"A tribe is losing reservation status for its more than 300 acres in Massasetts, raising fears among Native American groups that other tribes could face the same fate under the Trump administration. The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, which traces its ancestry to the Native Americans that shared a fall harvest meal with the Pilgrims in 1621, was notified late on Friday by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs that it will be rescinding its reservation designation and removing the land from federal trust, according to Cedric Cromwell, the tribe’s chairman. He said the move is “cruel” and “unnecessary” as the tribe and others across the nation are struggling to respond to the coronavirus pandemic within their sovereign lands. The decision, if allowed to stand, would destroy much of what the tribe has worked to build in recent years on its sovereign lands, Cromwell said. That includes establishing an independent judicial system, police force and Wampanoag-language school, as well as beginning construction on a roughly 50-unit tribal housing development and breaking ground on a $1bn resort casino." Trump, the ultimate White Man, making war on the Red Man.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 9, 2020 13:17:41 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/supreme-court-oklahoma-mcgirt-creek-nation.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that nearly half of Oklahoma falls within an Indian reservation, a decision that could reshape the criminal-justice system by preventing state authorities from prosecuting offenses there that involve Native Americans. The 5-to-4 decision, potentially one of the most consequential legal victories for Native Americans in decades, could have far-reaching implications for the 1.8 million people who live across what is now deemed “Indian Country” by the high court. The lands include much of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s second-biggest city. The case was steeped in the United States government’s long history of brutal removals and broken treaties with Indigenous tribes, and grappled with whether lands of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation had remained a reservation after Oklahoma became a state. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, a Westerner who has sided with tribes in previous cases and joined the court’s more liberal members, said that Congress had granted the Creek a reservation, and that the United States needed to abide by its promises." This is great! One of Trump's court bozos is an indian sympathizer!
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Post by jdredd on Nov 25, 2020 21:29:42 GMT -5
If Trump goes on a pardoning spree, will he pardon Leonard Peltier? Doubtful, Leonard is just an indian, or "prairie ni%%er", as they are called some places.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 18, 2020 20:15:00 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/climate/deb-haaland-interior-department-native-american.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Climate%20and%20Environment"WASHINGTON — In a historic decision, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has chosen Deb Haaland, a congressional representative from New Mexico and a Native American, to lead the Interior Department, an agency that for much of the nation’s history played a central role in the dislocation and abuse of Indigenous communities from coast to coast. Mr. Biden’s transition team announced the decision Thursday. If confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Haaland would be the first Native American to lead a cabinet-level agency. She would oversee a sprawling department responsible for some 500 million acres of public lands, including national parks, oil and gas drilling sites and endangered species habitat." Trumpy Bear can still pardon Leonard. Like he ever would. Maybe if he was a white billionaire, but a white billionaire would never be framed by the FBI. Of course, maybe if he had been black Obama would have pardoned him.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 28, 2020 20:48:35 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/opinion/minnesota-line-3-enbridge-pipeline.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"This has been a brutal year for Indigenous people, who have suffered nearly double the Covid-19 mortality rate of white Americans. We have lost many of our elders, our language keepers. Covid has also struck an inordinate number of our vibrant young. Nevertheless, tribal people worked hard on the elections. The Native vote became a force that helped carry several key areas of the country and our state. On the heels of those victories, the granting of final permits to construct Enbridge’s Line 3, which will cross Anishinaabe treaty lands, was a breathtaking betrayal. The Land of 10,000 Lakes is already suffering from climate change. Yet Minnesota’s pollution control and public utility agencies refused to take the future of our lakes into account, or to consider treaty rights, in granting permits."
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Post by jdredd on Jan 21, 2021 10:29:22 GMT -5
I see Trumpy pardoned dirtbag Steve Bannon. Leonard is still in prison. Big shock. I might have taken back some of the bad things I said about the Orange Monster if he had.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 19, 2021 14:06:37 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/politics/native-americans-biden.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"During the campaign, Mr. Biden released a policy agenda outlining his plans for Native Americans and tribal communities. It included proposals to immediately reinstate the annual White House Tribal Nations Conference, nominate judges who understand federal Indian law and fully fund the Indian Health Service. That agenda partly reflected the importance of the Native American vote to Democrats. A New York Times analysis of precinct data found that the Biden-Harris ticket received more than 80 percent of Navajo Nation and Hopi reservation votes in Arizona, which Democrats narrowly won. Mr. Biden received about 13,500 more votes from the reservations than Hillary Clinton did in 2016. He won Arizona by about 11,000 votes, or three-tenths of a percentage point. Donald J. Trump won the state by 3.5 percentage points in 2016." How many white guys did Trump pardon when he left office?
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Post by jdredd on Dec 27, 2021 20:39:19 GMT -5
Still waiting, but I have little hope for Biden to do the right thing.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 16, 2022 16:11:19 GMT -5
Oh sure, when the FBI raids the former President’s mansion and searches his underwear drawer the right gets its panties all twisted up, but when they frame a First American for murder no one gives a crap.
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