Shoshone Tribe fights back -- You can help!
Robert T. Coulter, Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center, describes an unusual opportunity to overturn one of the most discriminatory and unconstitutional legal doctrines affecting Indian and Alaska Native tribes.
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the government from taking any property without just compensation and due process of law. This rule applies to everyone in the country except Indian tribes. The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe has been a victim of this faulty application of the law. The Timbisha Shoshone case presents a historic legal challenge unlike any other case in federal Indian law.
Timbisha is a small tribe living in Death Valley that does not have the funds to defend itself without our help.
News from the OAS negotiations on the draft American Declaration
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Positive momentum is building from meetings between Indian leaders and government officials from 29 countries in the Americas this week in Washington, D.C.
Leaders are working on the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Hear firsthand updates from delegates Rex Lee Jim, of the Navajo Nation, and Darwin Hill, of the Six Nations Confederacy.
Reactions to the historic White House
Tribal Nations Conference
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"Adoption of the UN Declaration by the United States would be a formal commitment to respect the most basic rights to fairness...and perhaps most importantly self-determination for Indian peoples." Lucy Simpson, Navajo, Senior Staff Attorney with the Indian Law Resource Center. |
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“The Obama administration should enforce the right to property due process of law and equality under the law.” Joe Kennedy, chairman of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of the Western Shoshone Nation. (Photo courtesy of Las Vegas Review Journal; Gary Thompson) Powered by Podbean.com |
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"What Obama told us about partnership, collaboration, consultation and sovereignty ... was music to my ears."
Ben Shelly, vice president of the Navajo Nation. |
Robert T. Coulter, Indian Law Resource Center, responds to Congressional apology to Native Americans
October 8th, 2009
"What happened is a failure on the part of Congress to really acknowledge what it has done in the past."
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