A/HRC/21/47/Add.1 114. Black Mesa Water Coalition: Department of the Interior has a trust responsibility to indigenous communities to protect drinking water sources. 115. Individual from Navajo reservation: Need to protect indigenous peoples’ right to water. 116. Wooden Shoe People representative: Working to bring attention to the non-binding apology to Native Americans on behalf of the citizens of the United States that was included in the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill. 117. Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico: The Jemez Pueblo has never ceded or abandoned the Indian title to the Valles Caldera, which is critically important to the group for both spiritual and resource reasons. Jemez Pueblo has never been compensated for the taking of these lands by the United States. 118. National Indian Youth Council: • The contemporary legal framework for prosecuting domestic violence in Indian Country is in adequate; tribes need criminal and full civil jurisdiction over nonIndian offenders in order to protect Native women against violence; • Urban Indians are frequently landholders of allotments, and given current emphasis on extractive industries, mineral extraction, and energy policy, off and near reservation Indian are affected by on-reservation policymaking; and • United States Government consistently ignores urban Indians generally, and in the following areas, specifically: the right to participation, violence against women, cultural and spiritual issues, education and related services, and person sovereignty. 119. Forgotten People organization: • Failures of the United States Government to remediate conditions in the Hopi Partition Land and the area affected by the Bennett Freeze, which was lifted in 2009 with inadequate funding for rehabilitation or the protection of water rights; • Mental, physical and psychological trauma resulting from the Bennett Freeze including youth suicide and mental illness; • Expropriation of land and for energy resource exploitation; • Health and remediation issues related to uranium mining on the Navajo Nation; • Land and animal confiscation; • Extractive industries and the contamination of water sources and high rates of cancer and contamination resulting from abandoned uranium mines; • Destruction of spiritual and sacred sites on Black Mesa as the result of mining; • Forced relocation of the people from Black Mesa has resulted in the inability to practise traditional religion, which is based on a spiritual relationship with ancestral lands; • Threats to indigenous peoples while they are attempting to protect burial and sacred sites; destruction of sacred sites; and • Opposition to Senate Bill 2109 /House Resolution 4067, Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement and its potential benefits for the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) owners and Peabody Coal Company; settlement grants a waiver without redress for past, present and future contamination of our water sources. 45