And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
From: "Robert Quiver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fwd: PIERRE, SD URGENT ACTION: FEDERAL, STATE GOVERNMENTS TRYING
TOEXPEDITE LAND TRANSFER
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:46:35 PDT
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>From: CPT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: PIERRE, SD URGENT ACTION: FEDERAL, STATE GOVERNMENTS TRYING
TOEXPEDITE LAND TRANSFER
>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:08:34
>
>CPTnet
>April 15, 1999
>PIERRE, SD URGENT ACTION: FEDERAL, SD STATE GOVERNMENTS SEEKING TO
EXPEDITE
>LAND TRANSFER
>
>The Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) encampment learned last
night that
>the transfer of 200,000 acres of treaty land to South Dakota is being
>expedited this week by the representatives of the SD State and
Federal
>governments. People living on the land in question along the
Missouri
>River have been approached by the SD State Fish, Game and Parks
Dept. and
>the Army Corps of Engineers and asked to sell their land over the
last
>couple days.
>
>Leaders of the encampment fear that the reason given for the buyout
--
>flood control -- is a pretext for expediting the land transfer. They
>speculate that SD Senator Tom Daschle, the South Dakota State
government,
>the U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of the Interior and the
Cheyenne
>River and Lower Brule Sioux tribes are working in collusion to
transfer the
>land before the Greater Sioux Nation can challenge the transfer in
court.
>
>Under the terms of the 1868 Fort Laramie treaty, the 200,000 acres
cannot
>be ceded without signatures of three quarters of all adult males of
the
>seven signatory tribes. The leadership of the Cheyenne River and
Lower
>Brule tribes have agreed to the transfer of the land in exchange for
favors
>benefitting only their tribes from the federal government. A
significant
>percentage of both tribes have opposed the decision made by the
leaders and
>both tribes have representatives participating in the Oceti Sakowin
>encampment.
>
>Representatives of the Oceti Sakowin have asked CPT's constituents
to write
>letters or send faxes to the following addresses, demanding that
>congressional oversight hearings be held, as required by law, on
Title VI
>of the 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Act--also called the Mitigation
Act.
>(See previous Urgent Action for more information.) Ask the
representatives
>to stop any transfer of Treaty land to the state of South Dakota
until such
>hearings are held.
>
>Members of CPT currently camped on LaFramboise Island with the Oceti
>Sakowin will meet with representatives of the state and federal
governments
>located in Pierre, capital of South Dakota, in the coming week.
>
>Please send letters to:
>
>Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
>838 Hart Senate Office Building
>Washington, DC 20510
>Attn: Patricia Zell or Paul Moorehead
>Tel: 202-224-2251
>Fax: 202-224-5429
>
>Honorable Ben Nighthorse Campbell,Chairman
>U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
>828 Hart Senate Office Building
>Washington, DC 20510
>attn: Patricia Zell
>Tel: 202-224-5852
>Fax: 202-224-1933
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>The Honorable Tom Daschle (D-SD)
>509 Hart Senate Building
>US Senate S-221
>Washington, DC 20510
>Tel. 202-224-2321
>Fax:202-224-2047
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Honorable Daniel Inouye, Vice-Chair (D-HI)
>U.S. Senate Commmittee on Indian Affairs
>722 HSOB
>Washington, DC 20510
>Tel: 202-224-3934
>Fax: 202-224-6747
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Honorable George Miller (D-CA)
>U.S. House of Representatives
>Committee on Resources
>509 O'Neil Annex House Office Building
>Washington, DC 20515
>Attn. Steve Lannich
>Tel: 202-225-2095
>Fax: 202-225-5609
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Honorable Don Young, Chairman (R-AK)
>U.S. House of Representatives
>Committee on Resources
>1324 Longworth House Office Building
>Washington, DC 20515
>Attn: Tim Glidden
>Tel: 202-225-5765
>Fax: 202-225-0425
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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