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9.
Members of the Beaver Clan, Onondaga Nation: Report on sexual violence and
criminal acts against indigenous children.
10.
Indian Law Resource Center: Highlights areas of Government policy that present
significant concerns for indigenous peoples located in the United States and elsewhere
including the effect of United States’ foreign policy on indigenous peoples in other
countries; recommendations are made for policy change that would bring the United States
into compliance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Southeast region
11.
Lummi Nation: Need for protection of sacred sites and repatriation of ancestral
remains.
12.
Council of the Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation Aboriginal People: Affirm
rights to land, culture and way within the context of historical violations by the
Government.
13.
Choctaw Nation of Florida: Historical taking of lands and treaty breach issues.
14.
Yamasi People: Need for sustainable development and peaceful and productive
communication between indigenous peoples and the Government regarding environmental
issues.
Midwest and Great Lakes region
15.
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC): Mining activities, including prospective
mining development, is negatively affecting indigenous lands and waters within the
Anishinaabeg territory and established reservation homelands, which includes the
destruction of the sacred place, Migi zii wa sin (Eagle Rock).
16.
Anishinaabe representative: Increased mining in the Great Lakes region is a growing
threat to native communities on both sides of the United States/Canada border.
17.
Native American Alliance of Ohio (NAAO): Report that “documentary genocide,”
the practice of eliminating recognition of native peoples, is taking place in Ohio.
South Dakota and broader Great Plains region (including submissions at Sinte Gleska
University consultation)
18.
Sioux Nation Treaty Council: Contamination from extractive industries including
gold mining, uranium mining and strip mining for coal in treaty territory; breach of the
1868 Fort Laramie Treaty; high rates of cancer among indigenous people of the Northern
Great Plains; misrepresentation of Sioux peoples by non-indigenous person; proposed war
games in Buffalo Gap National Grasslands.
19.
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe: Uncertainty remains regarding compensation
stemming from the Tribal Equitable Compensation Act (TECA) and P.L. 106-511, an act to
provide for equitable compensation for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and for other
purposes.
20.
Lakota People’s Law Project: Native children are taken from their families in
violation of the Indian Child Welfare Act and this is reflected by the disproportionately
high rate of Native American children in foster care.
21.
Chief Iron Eagle, Nakota Sioux Fire (Yankton Sioux Reservation): Lack of adequate
legal recourse to address treaty breach and sovereignty issues faced by indigenous peoples
in the United States.
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