Cobell Settlement gets worse and worse

The Opinion Piece in Indian Country Today, Eagle Woman: The Cobell Settlement is a great wrong to Indian people, further and more eloquently explains a lot of what is wrong with the Cobell Settlement. Angelique has simplified the facts, making it easy for everyone from legislators to Indian land owners to agree that the settlement as it stands is not even a slight shadow of what is owed. Nor is the current settlement one that should be allowed. It is a common sentiment among land owners that Eloise Cobell should not accept anything less than what all of us receive. There is now yet another refined explanation for why the settlement should not proceed further which all Indians should communicate to their senators in the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and their nearby states.

Kimberly Craven and multiple others are speaking as Angelique Eagle Woman is: on behalf of Indian land owners. These ladies' articulate articles have become reasonable assumptions that what is on the table now is not acceptable, nor should oblivious Indian land owners be counted as support for this settlement. That the Cobell team went looking for support from tribal members is obvious; what is not so obvious is the fact that nothing was presented at her team's meetings with land owners that objectively presented all the facts. As one tribal member said after a recent meeting with the Cobell team, all he heard was pro settlement; he never heard the cons. Based on the skewed presentation, land owners whose tribes are not even part of the class action lawsuit, were fooled into signing petitions of support.

Now Angelique Eagle Woman has presented what is yet another article explaining why Indian land owners would once again be short-shrifted if the Cobell Settlement proceeds. Thanks to Angelique Eagle Woman, Kimberly Craven and the multiple other advocates is appropriate-as they have made obvious how disastrous this settlement could be. One would hope that President Obama's lead Indian policy advisor, Kim Teehee, is there to pick up the load from here.

It would be even more fortuitous if Congress listened to these two ladies and the rest of our advocates, whose explanations truly show that the Elouise Cobell Settlement is wrong.

Follow up to Kim Teehee Gets a Chance to Work.

The original idea or blog entry was here.
So much for that idea!

Kim Teehee gets a chance to work

(An article in Indian Country Today recently revealed a Seneca Nation Push to have President Obama veto the PACT act which would have States enforcing Federal Laws against Tribes)

hey this is right up her alley! This is a chance for the top Indian Job in the United States to showcase how it can be used. The battle for Sovereignty can hold no greater promise than for an Indian to advise the President about a disastrous bill that would erode sovereignty...right?

Technically, once you start a discussion on Sovereignty, you probably couldn't stop, ever. That is how vast Sovereignty is, there really is no limit to the definition of Sovereignty. Sovereignty is infinite in practice and promise. Let's hope Kim Teehee can impart that knowledge to President Obama.

A gentle hush should be heard across Indian Country while Kim Teehee explains the effects to President Obama.

Holding your breath probably isn't advised; however, if legislative history has any chance of repeating itself. Let's hope that now that we have an Indian in the Executive Offices of the President, things change.

At the very least, let's hope that the diatribe of some errant law school professors hasn't taken root in one of our own. When sovereign believers, speak to some of those walking legal-eagles (walk because they can't fly) their wish is to always convey, "your thoughts are not my indian reality:"

PLENARY POWER DOES NOT EXIST
(Unless you're as guillable as Ellwood Dowd in the film HARVEY, when he shows proof that , "THERE'S NO POWER LIKE THE POWER OF YOUR IMAGINATION")

SOVEREIGNTY IS NEVER TAKEN AWAY, SOVEREIGNTY CAN ONLY BE GIVEN AWAY

Amen to expressing a Native American's point of view

Talk Left .com ran an article during the recent presidential campaign.
It is relevant to discussing any of the appointments in President Obama's Administration.

Accordingly, it is also relevant that Native Americans should be following the appointments at every level of government. Question the footprints left in the appointees' history, not the person who made the footprints.

That's all this is about. And it's all that Evon Peters was purported to have been talking about: ("It's unfortunate that across America, our communities don't tend to dig deeper into the actual decisions that different leaders have made in their previous offices. ... My hope is that Native American people will be inspired to look into all candidates' track records on the tribal, state and national level.")

It's a recurrent issue: looking at who will have an impact on our way of life. Maybe we can be forgiven for pointing out the significant facts that are related to the people who the Federal Government appoints to serve the relationship between Native America and the Federal Government.

It would seem an easy thing to say that Heather Kendall-Miller fits the bill for evaluating how the Federal Government nurtures the relationship between Native America and the Federal Government.

http://www.adn.com/adn/features/indian_country/05a5.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/july-dec08/alaskawarming_07-10.html
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124560,00.html
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hpaied/people/miller.htm