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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:56:12 +0100
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From: Ria Verjauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fax alert Pierre
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FAX
to:
Governor William Janklow
State Capitol
Pierre, South Dakota
fax: 00-1-605-773-4711
25 March 1999
dear Governor,
We are informed that a group of Native People of South Dakota are
initiating a Peaceful Gathering in the
SD Capitol, in protest against an illegal transfer of treaty land to the
state of South Dakota.
The member tribes of the Great Sioux Nation have declared the Gathering as
a spiritual camp for the
purpose maintaining peaceful and non violent assembly on the federal lands.
The Treaty Lands in Question are the 200,000 Acres of lands along the east &
west bank of the Missouri
River in South Dakota. The transfer is legally called the Cheyenne River
Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux
Tribe, and SD Teresstrial Wildlife Habitat Restoration Act. The Land title
belongs to the Great Sioux nation under the 1851 & 1868 Ft. Laramie
Treaties. The Land Transfer was
attached as a rider by Senator Daschle into the October 1998 Omnibus
Appropriations Act and has
become law without the consent of 3/4 majority of the Seven Campfires (Great
Sioux
Nation). The federal land is scheduled to be transferred to the state of SD
in July 1999.
Tribes, Treaty Councils, and non-Indian supporters including the South
Dakota Peace and Justice Center
are calling for congressional oversight hearings to reconsider the Act, and
for a full-blown EIS
(Environmental Impact Statement) before the US Army Corps of Engineers
moves to transfer any land.
We are also informed that the Native People have been up all night securing
the area of the peacecamp
from pestering people who had started to harrass the spiritual encampment.
You have put a press embargo on the media, so there is no coverage at all in
the USA. Why did you take
this measure? Is there something that the USA, that the world doesn't have
to see or know?
While successive US governments have used international human rights
standards as a yardstick by which
to judge other countries, they have not consistently applied those same
standards at home.
As European peace activists we worry about the safety of the people of the
First Fire of the Oceti Sakowin
spiritual camp. We will keep on monitoring the situation and hope that the
situation will remain peaceful
. Other European action groups, politicians, press ... will be informed
about the situation in South Dakota.
* For Mother Earth is member of Abolition 2000 - the global *
*network to eliminate nuclear weapons, the International Peace Bureau*
The native peoples of the US have to face daily violations of their most
basic human rights such as: land
rights, religious rights, cultural rights .... this must stop.
We hope that you will take your responsibility in this important matter and
secure safety.
Ria Verjauw
Overstraat 80
3020 Veltem
Belgium
e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for FOR MOTHER EARTH BELGIUM - Working Group on Indigenous Peoples Issues
http://bewoner.dma.be/WGIV/
* WWW: http://www.motherearth.org/ *
Ria Verjauw
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Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit)
Unenh onhwa' Awayaton
http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/
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