And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>From: "Kent Lebsock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Ishgooda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Fw:
>Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:30:20 -0700
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>> From: Kent Lebsock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: NetWarrior broadcast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject:
>> Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 8:47 AM
>>
>> Black Hills
>> Teton Sioux Nation
>> Tetuwan Oyate
>> MEMBER RESERVATIONS
>> Pine Ridge
>> Lower Brule
>> Cheyenne River
>> Standing Rock
>> Rosebud
>> Fort Peck
>> Crow Creek
>> Santee
>> Canadian Sioux
>>
>> For immediate release February 11, 1999 For immediate release
>>
>> by Tony Black Feather (Spokesman, Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council) and
>> Kent Lebsock (Legal Secretary to the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council)
>>
>> C/o Kent Lebsock, 4448 Jupiter St. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107,
>505-341-4230
>> phone and fax, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> C/o Tony Black Feather, Spokesman, PO Box 48, Pine Ridge, SD 57770,
>> 605-867-5938
>>
>>
>> Since 1894, when the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council was founded by
>Chief
>> He Dog, our purpose has always been to uphold the treaties and to protect
>> our culture, our land, our water and our way of life. It is our duty,
>> then, to speak up when we see violations to our treaties and the Natural
>> Law of the Creator. This is the situation that has once again arisen on
>our
>> territory with respect to this confusion surrounding the Missouri River
>> bills.
>>
>> Under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, our Lakota territory extends to
>the
>> east bank of the Missouri River. The Tetuwan Oyate rejected the original
>> action on the Pick Sloan Act in December 1944 as a violation of treaty
>> rights. More recently, our late chief, Garfield Grass Rope, expressed
>the
>> same opposition in a letter to the Committee on Energy and Natural
>> Resources in the United States Congress on April 14, 1997. "The issues
>at
>> hand concerning the Missouri River discuss the allocation and management
>of
>> resources still covered by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. Therefore,
>> these issues must be governed, as set forth in the treaty, by a
>> three-fourths vote of the eligible Lakota treaty descendants on all eight
>> Lakota reservations. Any other action is and will be a flagrant
>violation
>> of lawful United States treaty obligations."
>>
>> The Tetuwan Oyate stands on the treaties. Under the laws of both the
>> United States and the Lakota Nation, treaties govern the relationship
>> between our two peoples. When asked to comment on this Tony Black
>Feather,
>> the Spokesman for the Tetuwan Oyate (Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council),
>> stated: "The law governing treaties is international law. We are
>protected
>> by it and are pursuing these violations on an international level; at the
>> United Nations and the World Court of Justice." In the past, the Teton
>> Sioux Nation Treaty Council has taken the issues of the Missouri River to
>> the United Nations. At the XVth Session of the Working Group on
>Indigenous
>> Populations at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Ellen Wright
>> delivered the following statement on behalf of the Teton Sioux Nation
>> Treaty Council.
>>
>> "The control of the very source of our lives is denied even though we
>have
>> legally binding international instruments setting forth the rights given
>to
>> us by the creator. The source of this abuse is that our treaties our
>> ignored. Our way of life, which protects the water and the environment,
>is
>> preserved in the treaties, but the treaties are violated. It was the
>> colonizer that asked for the treaties, yet they have steadily violated
>them
>> in one form or another."
>>
>> The Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council reminds our own people and the
>> government of the United States that action on treaty issues without
>> consideration of the treaty provisions is a violation of international
>law.
>> Tony Black Feather stated that domestic action on the Missouri River is
>> illegal. "We support the tenets of the Draft Declaration on the Rights
>of
>> the World's Indigenous Peoples now before the Commission on Human Rights
>at
>> the United Nations which states, in part, that 'Indigenous peoples have
>the
>> right to the restitution of lands and territories which have been
>> confiscated, occupied, used or damaged without their free and informed
>> consent…'" The resolution of Missouri River issues lies in adherence to
>> the treaties.
>>
>> Mitaku Oyasin
>>
>
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