[Xmca-l] Re: Indigenous rights

[mike cole]

Amazing! What a huge victory for Indigenous people.  And it comes as the
Standing Rock Sioux stopped the
pipeline running through their land.

sure enough the times, they are a changing.
mike

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 9:43 AM Martin Packer <mpacker@cantab.net> wrote:

> I am delighted to see that the US supreme court has ruled that the state
> of Oklahoma must recognize the treaty signed long ago with indigenous
> peoples. If Congress wants to reject that treaty it will have to do so
> explicitly, and that is likely to be a struggle!
>
> As one NY Times reader notes, "the question of what the impact is on the
> state's regulatory authority over the land in question is coming!”
>
> If slavery was the original sin of the US this was only by a small margin,
> since conflict with indigenous peoples had begun by 1622. The US government
> went on to authorize over 1,500 wars, attacks and raids on Indians.
>
> (Perhaps as someone born in the UK I should add that I am well aware of
> the British role in this.)
>
> Martin
>
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/supreme-court-oklahoma-mcgirt-creek-nation.html__;!!Mih3wA!Q1OGzmaRIhPVOSjKcZ0XIEvR9UY6_28zXxMCQ4AzqJMAxhut6Y4FqH7C_Sb6GT91a_hFyQ$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/supreme-court-oklahoma-mcgirt-creek-nation.html__;!!Mih3wA!VMKWbsJhRB0U4ZXzbOuZ9venWhBpAYlMXR5KCcDmA6aFJpxVx1uoL2Q2uCdSo1IqY7z2mw$>
>
> Supreme Court Rules Nearly Half of Oklahoma Is Indian Reservation
>
> The 5-4 decision could reshape criminal justice in eastern Oklahoma by
> preventing state authorities from prosecuting Native Americans
>
>

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