United Nations Says America Should Return Some Stolen Land To The Indians

May 9. 2012

Congress

The Guardian newspaper has published a piece titled "US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations." It deals with native Indians in America, being robbed of their land and facing terrible "racial discrimination" and financial hardships. According to the report, Congress is ignoring the plight of the native American Indians.

Contrary to what many think, all native Indian tribes are not swimming in tax free money and living the high life. Many are poor and disenfranchised. As the original Americans, more needs to be done to help them. Their ancestors were robbed of their land and murdered. Restitution needs to be made in some financial form for these injustices.    

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US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations

Friday 4 May 2012 23.46 BST - UN's correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat 'racial discrimination' felt by Native Americans. A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.

James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.

Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of dispossession of their lands and resources, the breakdown of their societies and "numerous instances of outright brutality, all grounded on racial discrimination"...