WestVirginiaRebel Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 UK Guardian: A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination. James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes. Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of dispossession of their lands and resources, the breakdown of their societies and "numerous instances of outright brutality, all grounded on racial discrimination". "It's a racial discrimination that they feel is both systemic and also specific instances of ongoing discrimination that is felt at the individual level," he said. Anaya said racism extended from the broad relationship between federal or state governments and tribes down to local issues such as education. "For example, with the treatment of children in schools both by their peers and by teachers as well as the educational system itself; the way native Americans and indigenous peoples are reflected in the school curriculum and teaching," he said. "And discrimination in the sense of the invisibility of Native Americans in the country overall that often is reflected in the popular media. The idea that is often projected through the mainstream media and among public figures that indigenous peoples are either gone or as a group are insignificant or that they're out to get benefits in terms of handouts, or their communities and cultures are reduced to casinos, which are just flatly wrong." Close to a million people live on the US's 310 Native American reservations. Some tribes have done well from a boom in casinos on reservations but most have not. ________ The UN wants to get involved in the problems of Native Americans. What could go wrong? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Indian tribes should return stolen land to the chipmunks, says NCTexan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Chipmunks should return stolen land to the primal ooze. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rheo Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Why the hell is the UN involved in our land/reservations/decisions? Primal ooze. That is what we have let run our country. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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