Saturday, January 28, 2006
Jump Into Their Dreams
The United States missed a year-end deadline to answer questions from the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concerning violations of Western Shoshone human rights and their right to ancestral lands....
Julie Ann Fishel, land recognition program director for the Western Shoshone Defense Project, said Western Shoshone elders see pressure from the United Nations as the only solution...
The United States, without Western Shoshone consent, has allowed gold mining and military testing of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on their ancestral lands. ...Without voice or resolution in the United States, the Western Shoshone appealed to the United Nations demanding reform of U.S. laws that allow for the theft and destruction of indigenous lands. ...
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?feature=yes&id=1096412354
As the young Oglala poet Joel Waters remarked recently, indigenous people's pockets might be empty, but their hearts are full of hope. Now they need to have that courage to "jump into their dreams."
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412368
Julie Ann Fishel, land recognition program director for the Western Shoshone Defense Project, said Western Shoshone elders see pressure from the United Nations as the only solution...
The United States, without Western Shoshone consent, has allowed gold mining and military testing of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on their ancestral lands. ...Without voice or resolution in the United States, the Western Shoshone appealed to the United Nations demanding reform of U.S. laws that allow for the theft and destruction of indigenous lands. ...
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?feature=yes&id=1096412354
As the young Oglala poet Joel Waters remarked recently, indigenous people's pockets might be empty, but their hearts are full of hope. Now they need to have that courage to "jump into their dreams."
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412368
