UN Shadow Report on Natives in US

The International Indian Treaty Council will soon present the United
Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination with a
document that reveals America’s legacy of systemic racism, forced
assimilation and apartheid of Indigenous Peoples.

The 87-page Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report,
which has been prepared with testimony from a number of individuals,
covers issues such as: environmental racism, border injustices, the
destruction of sacred places, violence against women, and most
tellingly, the “overwhelming disparities in income, life expectancy,
poverty and unemployment” in what can only be described as a system of
Apartheid and forced assimilation “where Indigenous people are
warehoused in poverty and neglect, their only option being to abandon
their lands, families, languages and cultures to search for a better
life.”

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The United States perpetuates a constitutional and legal
system that legitimizes discriminatory practices towards Indigenous
Peoples by failing to protect their rights to property, religious
freedom and practice, despoiling spiritually significant areas, denying
Indigenous Peoples’ control and management of resources and
self-determination even on their own lands.

If you’re pressed for time, Brenda also put together a great overview of the report in

her article, US Apartheid of Indigenous Peoples documented in UN report

also see

Chertoff announced plans to force occupation of South Texas families who refuse to allow the government access to their lands. See the story in the Houston Chronical http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5357676.html

also learn about the

Shadow Wolves

In its January 2003 feature article about the Shadow Wolves, Smithsonian Magazine described the unit as "possibly the world's best trackers" using "time-honored techniques" to pursue drug smugglers. The magazine reports that in a one-year stretch between 2001 and 2002, the Shadow Wolves seized 46,000 kilos of illegal drugs, nearly half of all the drugs intercepted by the Customs Service in Arizona.