{"id":20365,"date":"2022-01-25T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=20365"},"modified":"2022-02-02T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:34:07","slug":"cam-foreman-human-rights-abuses-continue-in-indian-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/01\/25\/cam-foreman-human-rights-abuses-continue-in-indian-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Foreman: Human rights abuses continue in Indian Country"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Virginia<\/a>
Virginia Timmons, pictured at left, was an original allottee of the Redding Rancheria. Her daughter Lorena Butler, seen on the right, was disenrolled by the tribe, based in California. Photo courtesy Cam Foreman<\/figcaption>\r\n
Human rights abuses continue in Indian Country<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, January 25, 2022<\/div>\r\n
By Cam Foreman<\/div>\r\n
<\/i> CForeman31<\/a><\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe following is the text of a letter sent to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland, National Congress of American Indians President Fawn Sharp, and members of\r\nthe Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.<\/em>\r\n<\/em>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nWe are at a crossroads in United States and Indigenous history. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nFor the first time we have Indigenous people leading Departments of the Federal Government that were formed for the purpose of controlling and exterminating Indigenous peoples. It is time to demand that Indigenous Americans receive the same human rights protections as those who have arrived in the U.S. over the last 500 years.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThrough national Indigenous leadership, our country is reckoning with its imperialistic history and injustices still suffered by our country\u2019s first peoples. Our country is finally acknowledging federal Indian boarding schools where Indigenous Parents, Grandparents, and Ancestors faced unimaginable abuse, hardship, and death. Our country is contending with today\u2019s epidemic of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). Our country is also coming to grips with the reality that Tribal nations have not always been on the right side of history. Some Tribal nations owned slaves until the 1860s. Other Tribal nations violated their own peoples\u2019 civil rights once the U.S. formed reservations in the 19th century.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nBut the U.S. and the National Congress of American Indians have failed to recognize the human rights violations that thousands of Indigenous citizens have suffered in modern times and continue to suffer in 2022 despite the country\u2019s racial reckoning. National Indigenous leaders remain silent when their colleagues in Tribal offices violate human and civil rights guaranteed to Tribal citizens in U.S. treaties and statutes and federal Indian Reorganization Act constitutions. \r\n

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Protect Elders & Their Rights as much as the Casino Corporations Abusing Power to violate Their Constitutions & Responsibility to Protect their People to Banish them from their Homes
You Acknowledged this sick act last year #StopDisenrollment<\/a> @lsroberts2<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/rH3dIvKR8M<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/QsO62YrjfB<\/a><\/p>— Cam Foreman (@CForeman31) October 8, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>