Submitted by AudibleNod t3_10l8ewr in UpliftingNews
BrockManstrong t1_j5wsva5 wrote
Reply to comment by wostil-poced1649 in First Navajo woman becomes Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council by AudibleNod
Here's a list of cases where the tribal authorities had to sue the US government, beginning in 1940: https://www.justice.gov/enrd/significant-indian-cases
Failure of the The Government to protect Indians on tribal lands: https://indianlaw.org/safewomen/violation-human-rights
The Government asserts it's sole right to prosecute crimes committed against Indians by non-Indians on reservations: https://www.bia.gov/as-ia/opa/online-press-release/solicitor-says-us-has-criminal-jurisdiction-reservations-where-tribes
State crimes are automatically Federal crimes on reservations: https://www.bia.gov/faqs/do-laws-apply-non-indians-also-apply-indians
A summation of American history with regards to removing the indigenous population: https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/native-american/removing-native-americans-from-their-land/
A US Government Accountability Office report on how the US is currently failing the people it sequestered on reservations: https://www.gao.gov/tribal-and-native-american-issues
shockingdevelopment t1_j5wvtmn wrote
Before the 1900s the US policy was "this land is yours...wait there's gold in them hills. You dead"
BrockManstrong t1_j5wz5ny wrote
If you read the links it never stopped.
beardicusmaximus8 t1_j5wz6b4 wrote
Not just before the 1900s sadly.
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