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UNITED NATIONS - The international community now fully recognises the native peoples' right to protect their lands and live distinct lifestyles. Yet, most of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples continue to face abuse and injustices at the hands of state authorities and commercial concerns.
"We must look at the substantial successes we have been able to achieve, but also reflect on how far we have to go," Ben Powless of the Indigenous Environment Network told IPS on the eve of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
Though pleased with the U.N. General Assembly's decision last year to approve the Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples, Powless and other activists say they have no reason to believe that those who have occupied their native lands are willing to change their behaviour.
"Governments in the past have been complicit in genocides, land seizures, massive environmental degradation, and many other human rights abuses because [indigenous peoples] were denied their fundamental rights and freedoms," said Powless, a Mohawk whose nation's territory is now divided between modern-day Canada and the United States.
Last year when the 192-member U.N. General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples, both the U.S. and Canada were among a handful of countries that voted against it.
"This shows how far we still have to go to make sure that states acknowledge and protect indigenous peoples' rights, for if they continue not to, we have many examples of the grave results," said Powless.
Recently, both the U.S. and Canada were found guilty by a Geneva-based U.N. rights watchdog, which keeps track of violations of the 1968 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) told Canada to take "appropriate legislative or administrative measures to prevent the acts of transnational corporations on indigenous territories."
CERD took the Canadian government to task in response to a petition filed by indigenous organisations that charged private businesses from Canada were unlawfully involved in the exploitation of their lands located in the U.S.
The petition particularly focused on the situation facing the Western Shoshone -- a Native American tribe whom some non-natives refer to as "Snake Indians," although in their own language they are called Newe people.
Stretching across the states of Nevada, California, Idaho, and Utah, the Shoshone land is currently the third largest gold producing area in the world. Numerous multinational corporations are operating in the Shoshone land, and many are planning to move in.
Many of these companies -- which include Bravo Venture Group, Nevada Pacific Gold, Barrick Gold, Glamis Gold, Great Basin Gold, and U.S. GoldCorp according to the complaint -- are registered in Canada.
Indigenous activists say that many areas where mining is taking place have been used by their communities for spiritual ceremonies and other cultural purposes for thousands of years. Certain areas are home to Shoshone creation stories and are vital to indigenous traditions of acquiring knowledge.
Shoshone elders have repeatedly charged that the enormous amount of toxic material produced as a result of mining is causing enormous damage to the health and well being of their people and the environment.
In 2006, in response to the Western Shoshone petition, CERD also assailed the U.S. government for violating the tribes' rights and said Washington had run afoul of the international antiracism treaty.
The 18-member U.N. panel of experts said it had "credible information" that the Shoshone were being denied their traditional rights to land. CERD said the U.S. government must cease all commercial activities on tribal lands, including mining operations.
The U.S. recognised Shoshone rights to their land under the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1979 that the pact gave Washington trusteeship over tribal lands.
The federal government justified its position by saying that tribe members had abandoned traditional land tenure and practices and cited "gradual encroachment" by non-natives as evidence to claim much of the land as federal territory.
The Western Shoshone, in their petition to the U.N. panel, countered that "gradual encroachment" in fact took place as part of a U.S. policy to steal their lands, and that this constituted racism.
Shoshone leaders said they went before CERD because they had exhausted all other legal options to prevent the U.S. government from taking over their ancestral lands. For similar reasons they had to challenge the actions of the Canadian government.
In addition to recommending legal steps to change corporate behaviour, the U.N. panel also asked Canada to submit a report on the effects of the activities of transnational corporations in Canada on indigenous peoples abroad.
Mindful that relations between indigenous communities and governments in many parts of the world remain tense, officials at the U.N. Secretariat are currently trying to arrange seminars and meetings to create a cordial atmosphere for mutual understanding and reconciliation.
"Reconciliation between indigenous peoples and states can take many forms that differ from country to country," according to the U.N., "Generally it involves recognition for past injustices, justice for victims and the healing of relationships.
The U.N. has described the adoption of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007 -- after more than 20 years of negotiations among states and indigenous peoples, under the mediation of the U.N. -- an "historic act of reconciliation".
In a message to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, "The result of more than two decades of negotiations, [the Declaration] provides a momentous opportunity for states and indigenous peoples to strengthen their relationships, promote reconciliation, and ensure that the past is not repeated."
Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs and Coordinator of the Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, called the Declaration "a manifestation of reconciliation between indigenous peoples and states -- and a mechanism for carrying that reconciliation forward."
Meanwhile, Powless thinks that certain powerful countries are unlikely to change their attitudes towards indigenous peoples unless a majority of their citizens are informed enough to hold those accountable who play a powerful role in shaping public policy.
"The wider public must understand indigenous peoples' rights and concerns," he said. "They must act to protect them because as the most marginalised group in this world, it spells out how the rest of us will be treated, and is also the surest way to protect our last remaining ecosystems."
Many climate change scientists share this view. They think the indigenous peoples can play a vital role in preserving biodiversity and the planet's resources because they live in close proximity with nature.
© 2008 Inter Press Service
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Show AllNS, defending myself against your ugly accusations is not that difficult but I choose not to engage in it further. Feeding your negativity only increases the power of your negativity, it doesn't resolve it. That understanding is taught in our culture and is not in a book.
"I WAS BORN A PRISONER OF WAR"
I would like to return to the original article.
The USA IS a racist Nation.
That fact can be born out by the recent move by congress to "Apologize for Slavery".
For those readers who are old enough to remember "segregation" it was across the board, for African Americans and Native Americans and Hispanic Americans and Jewish Americans and regionally to other Americans who were from a different race or mixture of White and a "different race"----there was segregation, prejudice, and opposition.
For African Americans most of that "unAmerican" behavior is behind them, and only a few remain racist towards African Americans.
Why?
Because African Americans "asserted themselves", they refused to allow racism to become a deciding factor in their existence.
For every single Native American who was born after 1883 (the year the Seven Major Crimes Act was passed, which began the violations of the treaties that continues to this day) they were Legally and Technically born "Prisoners of War", the citation for that one is the above mentioned Treaties---and this is very simply states in this manner: If a treaty that ends a war is violated by one side against the other, then the Treaty is rendered void---and the parties are still at war.
If the Native American Nations and their People are to ever truly enjoy Sovereign Nation Status, they must first begin to realize and ACT like nations that are at WAR WITH THE USA, because the USA has violated the Treaties that they signed with those Native Nations that caused those Nations to cease hostilities with the USA.......they MUST
ASSERT that they are still at war with the USA, teach that to their children, and act accordingly.
Title 25, USC is a direct indication that the Native American Nations are NOT sovereign Nations---Ttl 25,USC, is also subtitled "Indians" (they use a misnomer as an added insult I think). There are no USC's with the Subtitles; France, UK, Canada, Mexico etc. to have one subtitled "Indians" is no one else's fault than the Native Nations and their People. They can accept the situation as it is----or act accordingly to the very simple fact that they are at war with the USA, and the USA is very vulnerable. They can--- for the first time since 1776, have true peace with the USA, and at the same time enjoy status as Sovereign Nations instead of being "Domestic Dependant Nations"-----
They can stand as example to the world of intelligent Sovereign People in control of their own destiny.
Or they can dress up in "Regalia" and "Go to the Rodeo and Dance for the White Folks"....
I do not dress up in Regalia or Dance for the White Folks, and I would drop everything in my busy life TODAY---to answer a call to arms----even at an age when no military in the world would accept my application.
Because I am a Son of a Great Nation, who is at war with another Great Nation---but I cannot fight that war alone, so I will most likely die a "prisoner of war" but I will not die having surrendered.
And I will not be quiet.
Veracity------
I have read DnG's postings, along with many others.
I have read many postings, made by what seems to be a few,including yours along with DnG's and a few others.
These postings here on CD are what appears to be "for" opinions.
Opinions are most often simply a personal view point, usually based upon information the person giving the opinion has stored in the brain, and uses for reference.
Your opinions as well as those of DnG or any others for that matter are always welcome, in any context with these noted exceptions:
When speaking about legal matters; it is best to use "citations"----otherwise you sound like the elderly lady who once told me , with absolute conviction, "they can't put stuff on TV or in the News Papers unless it's true, otherwise its against the law".
When speaking of Historical references, it is best to use TWO types of "citations"----the revisionist type and the actual reference. The revisionist type is what DnG (and many others) are fond of using and those in most cases are abstract and in all cases---one sided.
When speaking of Religion, it should be noted that "there is no scientific, historical, or any other factual proof that GOD does indeed exist, and any references to this imaginary being should be prefaced with "it is my opinion" etc. To do otherwise is a direct indication that the speaker is either a fool, or trying to fool other fools--- by being the bigger fool.
Expressing an opinion without that opinion having any basis in fact is simply the "sounds of a fool, talking to themselves".
In the same context, when seeking an opinion from a source, one does not accept the opinion from that source without some basis in fact; you do not ask your mechanic a medical opinion, or an opinion about your standard or automatic transmission from your Primary Care Physician ( or do you?).
From his/her writings DnG sound to be heavily influenced by popular culture and popular literature and in this forum that is acceptable, but would be much more effective if "citations" were provided, i.e. "I read in the local paper that---", or "I remember my teacher told me"---or "I heard on TV " otherwise, you might as well ask your Mechanic to repair the filling in your third molar, left bottom; and please be sure to use plenty of Novocaine"----
But getting back----way back ---to my original posting: The USA is illegally in possession of more than sixty percent of it's geographical territory, lands that have rendered trillions of dollars of wealth to this nation, helping to make it THE most wealthy nation on the planet (so far) and they are in possession of these lands because they violated their treaties----their word as a Nation----AFTER surrendering to the Native Americans (there weren't any Indians involved they have plenty of problems over there in INDIA---thank "GOD").
Citations have already been provided-----
If DnG is a Native American, then the study of your history should be the first of your "reading list"---otherwise, when you express an opinion based upon fantasy---you sound like the child who "knows" that Santa really really does exist-----"he ate the cookies I left out last year, and left some crumbs on the table".
All I have seen of DnGs words is a huge set of "lip prints" on the "collective buttocks of the USA"--------(Citations for that opinion is the 1310 CD postings YOU referenced above.) Try reading it.
Actually in retrospect I must admit: so many of you seem to be so proud of your ignorance, so happy at every chance to express it and share it with others--in writing no less--it almost makes me regret having lost my own ignorance---
"A-L-M-O-S-T"
This is not a competition NS. This is not just about us. The Animal or the Stone Nations may carry us through despite our weaknesses and failures. I don't like talking about "I" because it is ego centric. My preference is to speak about "we". Regretfully that seems to offend you. Clearly there are differences among our Tribal beliefs and ceremony. The teachings given to me require that I respect each persons individual sacred path. If you are who you say you are then it is acceptable to me.
D&G, VP--
Obviously you do not have the reading skills to accomplish much past the "Chiefing Stage"*.
I would encourage you to do some more and in this case realistic study about your heritage.
Native American people ARE different, in that the context of their being is established by their own history, not what they have presently, or what they "share" with the Americans. Louis Leaky believed that the NatAms had been on this continent for at least 100K years because of the diversity of the language bases, combined with the variants.
To assert that "we are all brothers and sisters", with Americans is a denial of the history that you obviously are poorly informed of. And a gross denial of the facts.
In 1932 the Native Americans swere "given" status as "citizens" in an illegal piece of legislation known as the Collier Act (collectively) also the "Indian Reorganization Act"------this was another illegal move by the US Gov, which many people think of as "a wonderful gesture by those Americans"---in fact it was just another land grab. When speaking of the "land" you should be aware of the trillions of dollars of wealth taken from those lands, and denied the legal owners.
What you think of as "traditional ways" is most likely clouded with interruption by outside influences that came into play long before any of us were born.
It would be a safe wager that neither of you speak your own NatAm language, or for that matter even are aware of the language base.
For just one example, it is believed by many in the field of anthropology that the Cherokee language itself is older in origin than Hebrew.
DnG does attempt to speak for others when he makes the broad assumption concerning the Native American (not "American Indian"---you pander to the dominate misconception when you feed them their own propaganda) people's attitudes toward anything---and the number of "keeper of the tradition" of"perhaps a quarter million" is somewhat askew since the last census showed that there are lightly over two million members "on the rolls".
you are welcome to feed your own fantasies regarding your heritage. You do not have the authority, and certainly not the information, to speak for anyone else, or to speak with any authority. In reality you reveal your own gross ignorace---which is exactly what the US Gov. wants from you----.
As for spreading disinformation and fear, this is a broad assessment: but yes, if spreading the "facts" is "disinformation" that contradicts "fantasy", and if the truth scares anyone----I'm your guy.
* When I was a kid in the fifties, Fort Sill was the largest Army training facility west of the Miss. River, Every weekend, some of the older men, most of them contemporaries of my GFather, would dress up in "Regalia" with Braided Wigs (long hair was not fashionable) and go down to the Train and Bus Station for some "Chiefing". They would walk around speaking "Pigeon English" i.e. me smokem peace pipe" and "how" and have their photo taken with the "White Folks" for two or three bucks per shot. This was when the min. wage was around 1.50 per hour I think, and they could make as much in one day, as "Chief Fool the White Folks" as they could in three or four on the work force, and have fun in the process. You are "Chiefing" but for "Free" when you kiss the "White Folks Buttocks" with your words of placation. Those old men would be ashamed of you and laugh at you for being such a "slut" as to "give it away".
Your ignorance about your supposed ancestry is appalling, but you wear it well.
Native Son I need no DNA or history books to know my people or my beliefs. What is given to me is given in the traditional ways and that is all I want or need.
VP, thank you for your kind and supportive words. None of us can be separated from the whole. Our destinies are combined as one. We are all brothers and sisters and our futures are inextricably woven. Through respect we will find our way forward and none will be left behind.
Word! Some of us may look like a cracker but our hearts lie with the land! As we look to the land to bring us our future, the land now looks to us to ensure future of the world.
Your rhetoric does not fit the reality.
Where you suppose to speak for "most American Indian People" you still use the misnomer that you were taught in grade school.
Try reading some History;
The Nations Within
Vine Deloria Jr.
Disinherited *
Dale Van Every
*This book will also acquaint you with the Supreme Court Decision on the sovereign status of Native American Tribes who have treaties with the US Government.
From the legal aspect:
When the US Government brought Peace Treaties to the Tribes this was and is considered 'capitulation'-surrender----etc.
When there are two or more parties engaged in a dispute, as in a law suit, or a war, and one side brings a settlement to the other, when the parties sign the agreement the matter is considered "closed" or "settled". When one party to the agreement violates the conditions of the agreement, the dispute is considered "resumed".
If you are a Native American---and you still use the term "American Indian", you also need to learn some facts about your DNA----your/our DNA is unique and easily computed (if you have not had the tests performed, they are less than $200.00 and may help you with your understanding)----your DNA will show that you are NOT in absolutely any fashion the least bit related to "Indians".
Ignorance can be forgiven for it is remedied through information. Ignoring the facts is stupidity in action, and not only unforgivable, but extremely dangerous to the practitioner.
In the future try to remember that when you respond to my postings, you respond to me. I do not speak for any other Native American person alive, dead, or unborn.
Do you?
NativeSon sounds like someone planted here to spread disinformation and fear. Most Native Peoples do not think this way. The very roots of our existence is co-existence, cooperation, and reciprocity. However, since the genocide has never really ended and has transformed into a quiet behind the scenes theft of our land, resources, monies, and culture, which goes largely unreported, today non-native Americans are mostly unaware of it's continuation. The organized governmental march toward our weakening and final assimilation or elimination remains strong. Traditional American Indian culture is greatly endangered and preserved by perhaps as few as one quarter million people, yet, Christian religions continue to target our traditional peoples. This clearly qualifies as Cultural Genocide.
Regarding land, most American Indian people are reasonable and accommodating. There is NO threat to white America from Native Peoples. I will say though that the legal and moral challenges aimed at ending the genocide are getting stronger and will continue until justice is rendered.
The only issue for anyone to consider is very simply this: If you are not good for your word, what are you good for?
The world takes leadership examples from the more powerful example. The USA has never complied with its treaties---so why should any other nation?
The USA and Canada have for the most part NOT kept their word with the indigenous people they encountered when they were occupying those lands where those peoples stood and resisted through armed conflict.
The USA has the highest incidence of non-compliance with all of it's treaties. This can only be attributed to the fact that for many, to hold them accountable for something that the previous generation did, would be "unjust". However, that is exactly the matter that is at question here. If you are not good for your word as a nation then you are not good.....It really is that simple folks.
The US Constitution clearly states that "all treaties are supreme law" but this has been a matter of "interpretation" from the begining. If it is convenient and expedicious for the USA to honor a treaty they do so, if not, they laugh at it while paying "great respect" to the "Native People".
The Native People could as a whole make the USA comply with treaties, they might even have much of the lands returned if they took a different approach. If they realized that since the USA came to them with treaties, the USA was in effect surrendering. When the USA began to violate the treaties, with legislation in the 1880s the Native People were, uneducated, unarmed, and unrepresented in the courts. Today is different. The Native American people have lawyers, doctors, professionals from all disciplines as well as VETERANS. They could make war upon the USA in a fashion the likes of which the world has never known; that is make war upon the infrastructure, and make them ALL poor if they do not comply with the treaties; and be extra carefull NOT to shed innocent blood. Since the USA broke the treaties, in reality the Native American (and Canadian as well) are still "at War" and should act accordingly. Now take this into consideration.
In reality the incident of 9/11 proved the true vulnerability of the USA. If one were to take into consideration the possibility that if the USA had not experienced the loss of innocent life; if they had been forced to deal ONLY with the ECONOMIC impact of the destruction of the Twin Towers----how quickly would they have agreed to the terms of those who destroyed those towers---if they had not shed one drop of innocent blood.
The USA is so dependant upon it's "infrastructure" that if the Native People were to wage war upon that infrastructure, say---take out the lights in several large cities for days at a time; take out bridges, over passes, interrupt the "rail system" (which by the way, traverses many of the same lands the USA is illegally in possession of); make war on the infrastructure and the economy--- and do so with the intent of taking NO INNOCENT LIFE---------then the USA would be compelled to come back to the "treaty negotiations"--------or go broke from lack of foreign investment as well as little or no commerce either inter- or intrastate. They would be in serious trouble economically, while the world watched in wonder.
For now the Native American people are asleep to the fact that they have tremendous power available to them----a large, fat, dependant enemy----they simply need to wake up----and make war.............
If that happens; all of you reading this will not be able to read this---because the "North American Inter tribal Militia has taken out the power again" and you will need for the "tricity" to "get back on" so you can.....
Now as a Native American I could really get into some of that action.
tolerancenow - curiously interesting name...if you could stop screaming and name-calling for a moment, you might also notice that it was Whites who bought slaves, sold slaves, forced slaves to labour in fields and mines under the most appalling conditions (still do) in the West; that it was Whites who invented the most disgusting racist anthropologies of the 16th-20th Centuries; that it was Whites who launched, conducted and supported the Holocaust; Whites who suppressed the rights of Native peoples and women of all colours; that Wall Street, the Pentagon, the Capitol, K-Street are populated mostly by Middle-Aged White Males; that the KKK is an overwhelmingly White racist organization, and far from the only one still around; you yourself point out that the Saudis' strongest supporters in the US are White (Bush&Cheney); the Captains of Industry and Finance tend to be overwhelmingly White; social clubs and banks treat Whites (and males) preferentially. Indeed, White Males do get the best breaks at all levels of our society, however you may "feel".
But the article on injustice to Native peoples was not trashing Whites; it announced right in its opening paragraph the now UN-supported "native peoples' right to protect their lands and live distinct lifestyles", and not just because it's pretty or romantic, but because of a recognition, a hope, that Native peoples still have access to wisdoms and practices that can help forestall the inevitable future environmental crisis. This is precisely what Native peoples had predicted, over 30 years ago - first, the Europeans trash and steal everything they had, and then, when things turn out badly, we will look to the Native peoples for their advice on how to fix the mess we made. And in fact, it was over 120 years ago that Chief Seattle asked some important questions about the wisdom of "ownership" of land and resources and challenged European treatment of native peoples. (How Can You Own the Air?)
In the last paragraph but one, the author states what should already be obvious to most, "...as the most marginalised group in this world, it spells out how the rest of us will be treated." If one group has no rights, none of us do. Finally, almost echoing the arguments of Chief Seattle, " [It] is also the surest way to protect our last remaining ecosystems." It's a sad recognition that we of European heritage have been screwing up.
When everyone is eating mud cookies to stave off hunger, there will be no room for false racial/ethnic loyalties.
I agree that it is hypocritical, but follows the typical pattern, for the UN to criticize treatment of Native peoples in the Americas when the Eurasians have had no better historical record: a long-standing campaign against the Sinti-Roma-Parthians is still in progress in Europe. Europeans have sold each other into slavery, as well. It is easy for Them-over-there to criticize Us-over-here, and the converse is also true. It is easy for us to criticize how China treats Tibetans: it costs us nothing; the results, effects don't really touch us, except as romantics.
I also agree that it is unfair to punish us, several generations down from those who committed the crimes - this applies to the Holocaust, as well, IMO. However, what we should do is make sure everyone is treated justly and fairly, accorded access and respect, and included in the discussion from now on. If you're religious (I'm not), there's a very wise warning to us all, something Jesus said - be careful how you behave because your children will pay for your mistakes. So let us behave better from now on and spare our children and grandchildren from the effects of our mistakes.
Peace and blessings
Haider Rizvi final point is "indigenous peoples can play a vital role in preserving biodiversity and the planet's resources". Hence, I would like to focus on few of the contemporary indigenous leaders and their achievements in environmental sustainability.
Harvard-educated Winona Laduke, Anishinaabe, for twenty years has been diligently restoring the wild rice ecosystem through her work with White Earth Land Recovery Project in MN. As executive director of Honor the Earth she coordinated a delegation of Native youth from around the US to participate in renewable technologies trainings and installations in Indigenous communities in southern Mexico. LaDuke is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including being named by Time magazine as one of America's fifty under fifty most promising leaders – not indigenous leader, not female leader – Leader.
Dune Lankard, Athabaskan Eyak, was a commercial fisherman until the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 motivated him to action. The Eyak Preservation Council (EPC) was founded and ultimately created the preservation of nearly 700,000 acres of endangered wild salmon habitat.
Jesus León Santos, Mixteca, was awarded the prestigious Goldman award for his work with Center for the Integral Development of the Mixteca (CEDICAM) in May '08. He has united the area's small Indigenous farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico. Together, they have planted more than one million native-variety trees, built hundreds of miles of ditches to retain water and prevent soil from eroding, and adapted traditional Mixteca indigenous practices to restore the regional ecosystem. Barren hillsides are green again; aquifers are recharged.
The Confederated tribes of the Siletz Indians are applying a different approach to raising hatchery fish in a salmon recovery effort. The Lhuuke Illahee Fish Hatchery previously operated as a traditional hatchery by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has been changed to resemble as much as possible a natural pond. Only naturally spawned fish are used. Instead of tossing handfuls of pellets for the fish to feed on, the fish feed on the bugs that are attracted to the algae and bacteria present because of the woody materials in the pond. Thus a smarter, better-adapted fish is being reared with a better chance of surviving the trip to the ocean and back.
This is a drop in the bucket of the meaningful work occurring today. After centuries of marginalization Indigenous contributions should not only be included in the body of work that is driving us towards a sustainable future but at the Forefront as the go to leaders.
mrE:
What an idiot!!!
Have you forgotten who ended slavery, started by Blacks in Africa? Whites, you moron!!! Who kept it going after our civil war and today? Blacks and Arabs in Africa and Arabia!
Who defeated Hitler? Whites!!!
WHo rescued Jews from the Concentration camps? Whites!!
Who defeated the KKK?- Morris Dees- a WHITE GUY from Alabama!
Who volunteered in the millions to fight to aid their fellow Americans after the Eamancipation Proclamation of 1863- WHITES!!!
Who will get Obama elected- WHITES!! Because he is not an idiot!
The USA needs to show leadership in the world, not continual hatred for their majority population!!!This is why we are ridiculed.
Unless you owned a slave- you need to be proud of your Country, because of all it has accomplished through all races working together.
Why do you and and so many others dwell on hate for caucasians on this sight. I admit Bush and Cheney are white, but their biggest supporters are the ones who trained and financed the 911 jihadists- SAUDI ARABIA. Bush and Cheney can't really be said to have worked for or even represnted the USA over the last 8 years- they have worked for the Saudis. Besides, disapproval of Bush/Cheney is an accepted multiracial fact.
White people have accepted the fact they are an inconvenience to non whites in this country. In fact, rape and murder by a non-white is one of the top twenty leading causes of death of white girls in this country!! Whites have been taught not to speak, not to be physically present or even avoid engaging in silent thought with non-whites, lest we offend them and we become labeled racists.
What you are doing by saying you hate to be white is perpetuating such hatred for caucasians that many, too many non-whites are targeting white men and women for murder, rape, torture while people like you, non-white communities, CNN,NPR and MSNBC applaud and cheer or they ignore it!! You're all stupid and sick.
I do not see any further need for whites being sacrificed after all this race has done for all other non-white races. WHY DO WE TEACH SUCH RECKLESS HATE EVERYDAY AGAINST THE WHITE RACE THAT HAS DONE AND CONTINUES TO SHOW COMPASSION,TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE FOR ALL SINCE KENNEDY!
Yeah, the Indians were robbed of land and were senselessly murdered years ago. Why must this generation of whites have to pay when they have done nothing but support, encourage and fight for rights with Indians?
Quite using history to hate!! Too many are being slaughtered.
Good Luck is either from BC or from the Maritimes because both those sides of Canada always whine about the fisheries practices without considering how much commercial fishing takes. I have heard those racist complaints so often I want to scream.
Our First Nations people are just like other groups of people, most are honest, trying to make a living in difficult circumstances. A few try to abuse the system. For the most part though, the indigenous peoples of Canada are trying to fight the systemic injustices and racism of the institutions that perpetrates itself. I feel sorry for those Canadians who buy the line that most commercial fishers sell without really considering the "Whiteman's" sins in taking the livelihood of coastal natives from them.
There is an area in the small BC coastal town of Powell River called Grief Point. It is named so because of the grief of the First peoples who were given small pox laden blankets that killed most of them off in the 19th century. The racism is endemic and will never be end until White Canadians accept that we stole their lands and did our best to "eradicate the Indian problem" as a former "Indian" agent in our government wanted to do in the mid 20th century. By that he meant, eradicate the First Nations people in which ever way possible.
Caucasians are a product of a sick imperialistic history and some will never give it up.
good luck, wasn't the land theirs to begin with? You're complaining that they got fish to feed themselves with? Are the indigenous schools as bad in Canada as they are in the U.S.?
There's a tribe in British Columbia that got money from the Canadian government. After they got the money, they are required to pay taxes. Does that make you feel better? I'd say if anyone was a boil on the butt of the world, it's the white imperialists. I've been in Canada and have seen the negative attitude the Caucasians have towards the tribal people there. Some people have no shame. I'd like to see them try to treat the African-Americans in a similar manner. They wouldn't get very far, would they, with a large minority like that.
sometimes i feel so ashamed to be white and living in america
i feel like a benefactor of genocide
the native peoples will never have justice until all of this land is rightfully returned to them and when do you think that will happen?
It's pretty well known about the U.S.'s history of genocide against its Native American peoples. But Canada has a dirty little secret too. The deliberate extermination of its Native Americans. The reason its pertinent here is because the UN looked into it, saw the evidence and then turned a blind eye. For a primer on the subject check out:
http://liberationvideo.blogspot.com/2008/06/unrepentant-kevin-annett-and-canadas.html
We (and you know who WE are) have always had a policy of - if you want someting, you take it. If you can't steal it, you kill the owner.
This is laughable...
I wonder if the U.N. will start officially recognizing gravity, or that the sun rises in the morning.
What took them so long?
Mr. Mitchell,
How have you (or anyone else) come to know about the plight of Sudanese Black Christians, Kurdish Iraqis/Turks, the Montagnard, etc?
For most of us, we come to know about these things through the media (as is the case here). The media come to know about these things through the reports of these international agencies. The US and Canada are not "singled out," as the very body that you accuse of bias (the UN) has issued many reports regarding the racially charged abuses by other nations.
BTW, the article mentions why this particular report came about. It was in response to a complaint lodged by Canadian and American Native groups.
Why does the international committee single out the US and Canada. Vietnam mistreats the Montagnard people. Turkey mistreats its Kurds. Sudan mistreats its Black Christians. Bulgaria mistreats its Turks. This would be better if it weren't one sided.
"Good luck" - Don't believe what you read in the media propoganda.
Those MILLIONS that the native reserves get are a fraction of what the Federal government contributes to health care, and infrastructure for non-natives. Per capita native communities get a paltry amount...and most of those millions never make it to the reserves, but rather are wasted in bureaucracy within the Federal Department "Indian and Northern Affairs". A deptartment which operated for many years with the express agenda of eradicating them and their culture.
The fact is that many natives live without basic infrastructure and with limited healthcare. Third world conditions within this first world nation.
Some native nations have been moved again and again to less and less valuable land...until now when only a handful are actually able to be self-sustaining. As to the "truckloads of fish and lobster". The media loves to talk about the amount of fish that native gather - so that it sounds like a lot...but compared to the commercial fishery, the native numbers can be seen to be INSIGNIFICANT - a fraction of 1 percent. Yes, there are some individuals who abuse, but I have also seen whole communities of impoverished people fed by some of those "truckloads". A truckload of fish shared between 1000 people does not leave much waste does it?
We signed the treaties, isn't it time we start to actually honor them?
Jaguara
Yes and the natives in Ontario fish out of season, fill the back of a pick up truck, use what to the rest are illegal fishing practice and then get MILLIONS every year from the Canadian Gov. OK how about we get rid of the band card and allow them to keep their land and pay taxes just like the rest. Time for these proud people to stand on their own two feet and show the world how great they are and not a boil on the butt of the world.
There has been little Canadian press coverage of Canada deservedly being trashed by the UN over its treatment of native people. Canada and the West love to lecture and hector the world about human rights and other alleged sins of the less enlightened. The rest of the world has long realized that this is claptrap.