Native American Land Claim
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The origin of the family and the private property was entirely written by Engels, and he copied many of the mistakes made by Lewis Morgan, and some Marxists claim that the Ethnological notebooks of Marx differ with Engels findings. The discovery of Lewis Morgan motivated them to change their definition of history and the concept of class struggle, but it did not lay down the foundation for a new society.
I have read both books and in some way they differ, it is Engels legacy, it is not Marx and Engels legacy, whatever took place in the Iroquois society is not a universal situation, was a particular situation. Engels copied from Lewis Morgan the concept of Barbarism, personally I do not approve that concept and some historian like Francis Jennings have rejected the concept and have considered that it was wrong to be used by Engels
Most Leninist organizations have a nationalist point of view, the SLP is not the only one, even more, the SLP celebrated the thanksgiving dinner for their members which is the celebration of a massacre performed on the natives, and also they support the constitution of the USA and some of the so-called founding fathers proven to be slave drivers and slave owners
Lezmond Mitchell, who is Navajo and the only Native American on federal death row is scheduled to be executed in late August.
Mitchell, who was convicted of the 2001 the grisly killings of a Navajo woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter. Mitchell and an accomplice abducted Alyce Slim, 63, and her granddaughter in October 2001 with plans to use Slim’s vehicle in a robbery. Prosecutors said the two fatally stabbed Slim and slit the girl’s throat. Their beheaded, mutilated bodies were found in a shallow grave on the Navajo Nation.
Tribal officials and even the victims’ family opposed the death penalty. Native American tribes for decades have been able to tell federal prosecutors if they want a death sentence considered for certain crimes on their land. Nearly all, including the Navajo Nation, have rejected that option. Mitchell was convicted of carjacking resulting in death — a crime that carries a possible death sentence no matter where it happens, meaning the tribe had no avenue to object.
Mitchell’s attorneys have said he had no history of violence and wasn’t the primary aggressor.
Navajo Nation Council Delegate Carl Slater has been pushing the tribe to request clemency from the federal government and affirm its position against the death penalty. Slater said it would send a message that the federal government has no problem using loopholes to infringe on the tribe’s sovereignty.
“This completely conflicts with our values,” he said. “The government has an obligation to express our values and reflect them. That’s not just to our citizens, that’s to other sovereigns that have these relationships.”
https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/
This is a good Radio Program and radio broadcasting to be informed about Natives Americans and what is taking place in their reservations
Choctaw Indians used to live across millions of acres in southeastern Mississippi but were forced off the land. Under an 1830 treaty, the Choctaws were to move to Oklahoma. Those who remained in Mississippi, the state’s only federally recognized American Indian tribe, endured segregation, racism and poverty. The reservation spreads out over 35,000 acres (14,164 hectares).
Almost 10% of the tribe’s roughly 11,000 members have tested positive for the virus.
The once-flourishing Choctaw economy is stagnant, as the tribal government put in place tighter restrictions than those imposed by the state.
The tribe has long been a target of hate, members say, and the virus has only made things worse. On social media, people blame Choctaws for high case numbers. Choctaw employees have been harassed at their jobs; others are called names in stores.
“We’ve heard so many bad things about ourselves and our people — the first thing people turn to is blame and hate,” said Marsha Berry, a tribe member who helped form a group that delivers food and other necessities to people self-isolating.
https://apnews.com/c8345dcd874a3136b59a4b619bdd3761That situation has been taken place for more than 500 years, and most peoples do not care about it
With regards to the Chocktaw, a piece of news I picked up from the Irish Media shows that human nature isn’t about greed and aquisitiveness:
https://ireland.gerlindeonline.com/kindred-spirits-the-choctaw-monument-in-midleton-co-cork/
An article reminding us that a land claim is also about water rights.
“Though the Navajo Nation overlaps several major water basins — including the Upper and Lower Basins of the Colorado River and the Rio Grande Basin — regulatory constraints mean the Nation’s primary water sources are the San Juan and Little Colorado River tributaries of the mighty Colorado River. For various reasons, including the sheer size of the reservation coupled with limited infrastructure, the water derived from these sources fail to stretch far enough to meet the demands of the Nation’s residents.”
Yet another story of Native Americans suffering land grab.
“This land is all we have left. And yeah, we’re gonna fight. I’m gonna fight,” said Rita Bilagody, a Navajo activist
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/12/navajo-nation-dams-big-canyon-pumped-storage-project
The canyon, however, as well as the regions nearby and the Native culture they sustain, could be altered permanently, if developers get their way.
Phoenix-based Pumped Hydro Storage LLC has received a preliminary permit from federal regulators for its Big Canyon Pumped Storage Project – a string of four huge dams near the Little Colorado River, along with reservoirs and a power-generation facility.The project is the third Pumped Hydro has proposed in the Big Canyon region – the two previous ones received major pushback from tribes and environmentalists. If built, it would flood Big Canyon. The environmental and cultural costs of this proposal would be major. Tribal members and environmentalists say the project would flood several miles of canyons sacred to the Navajo; risk damaging cultural sites for several tribes; draw vast amounts of critical groundwater; potentially harm habitats for plants and animals, including some endangered species; and risk adverse effects for waterways leading into the Grand Canyon.
Sovereignty is at the core of the fight against the Big Canyon project.
In addition to the Navajo, the department noted at least 10 tribes – including the Havasupai tribe, Hopi tribe, Hualapai tribe, Kaibab band of Paiute Indians, Las Vegas tribe of Paiute Indians, Moapa Band of Paiute Indians, Paiute Indian tribe of Utah, San Juan Southern Paiute tribe, Yavapai-Apache Nation and Pueblo of Zuni – would be affected
The forced assimilation of Native Americans
Tattooed like in concentration camps
Peoples who voted for Donald Trump knew that he was not going to pay any respect for the natives, their treaties, their traditions, and their lands, it is the same thing since the Puritan and the Calvinists arrived at the coast of North America. Like the Apache said: They have not respected any of the treaties that we signed, but they complied with one promise that they were going to take our lands, and they did it.
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