And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Dear Colleagues:
>
>I urge you to stop the transfer of 200,000 acres of treaty land
>to the State of South Dakota. I suspect that the reason given
>for the buyout -- flood control -- is only a pretext for expediting
>the land transfer. It appears to the public that South Dakota
>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 in protest
>of this land transfer.
>
>
>While United States military operations in Yugoslavia
>have undertaken to stop the theft of land from Kosovars,
>the U.S. even now is engaged in questionable dealings
>with the Great Sioux Nation that accomplish essentially
>the same thing. I urge you to put an end to land theft
>within our own borders.
>
>Sincerely,
>
[Your Name]
[your city]
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