Obama Wants To Give NYC Back To Native Americans!

[lakhota]

The good news is that the right-wing isn't talking about President Obama being a secret Muslim right now. The bad news is that they're now concerned that he's going to use his honorary status as a Crow Tribe Indian to return the United States to Native Americans.

The outrage began after the President announced on December 16 that the U.S. would reverse course and support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. The Declaration was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 2007, but the U.S., under President Bush, opposed it.

"The aspirations it affirms -- including the respect for the institutions and rich cultures of Native peoples -- are ones we must always seek to fulfill," the President said of the Declaration at White House Tribal Nations Conference where he announced the reversal. He went on to describe efforts to improve health care, education, and unemployment rates in tribal areas.

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[lakhota]

Thank you, Sir. It's a good start...

[lakhota]

[reformeddaytrader]

Lakhota.....is that you standing on the President's left and showing him how to beat your tom- tom drum??

If you don't mind me saying so; you look good in your War Bonnet... again .just saying..


Have you or your unreliable sources heard anything about Obama wanting to give California back to Mexico?? Curious minds would like to know especially those who have been sent back to Mexico from Arizona..just asking this time ??

[Politically_Incorrect12]

Dec 29, 2010 3:36:35 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

Thank you, Sir. It's a good start...

And what do you think is the end?

[ugonow]

Jeeze, Glenn was right.Obama does have a deep hatred for white people and everything he does is centered around evening up old racial scores.Score another one for Glenn Beck.

[reformeddaytrader]

Dec 29, 2010 9:34:09 GMT -5 Politically_Incorrect12 said:

Dec 29, 2010 3:36:35 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

Thank you, Sir. It's a good start...

And what do you think is the end?

I don't have a clue but ask Lakhota who is in pretty good stead with Obama He can beat a mean tune on his drum but marches to his own drumbeat

[sanityjones]

Michelle does look like she would be particularly good at scalping people................hopefully only those homegrown terrorist types though..........firemen, veterans, Ron Paul supporters.............................

[floridayankee]

Dec 29, 2010 3:36:35 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

Thank you, Sir. It's a good start...

Good...I say let 'em have it. According to the man made global warming alarmists, it's going to be underwater when the ice caps melt anyway.

[ugonow]

The Obamas don't like the Good Doctor Paul because of the early Paul newsletters .They hate free speech.

[Value Buy]

This one is for Lakhota.
On this day in history, the U. S. Seventh Cavalry massacred over 400 men women and children at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota
This turned out to be the last major conflict between Indians and the U. S. troops.

Not a "happy/nice" thing to post, but unfortunately, it did happen, and should be remembered.

[lakhota]

This one is for Lakhota.
On this day in history, the U. S. Seventh Cavalry massacred over 400 men women and children at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota
This turned out to be the last major conflict between Indians and the U. S. troops.

Not a "happy/nice" thing to post, but unfortunately, it did happen, and should be remembered.

Yes, another sad chapter in Native American history. Native Americans have been trying to provide Homeland Security since 1492.

[reformeddaytrader]

Do the native Indians want to take NYC back because there is trouble brewing with snow removal, 911 Mosque and greed and corruption on Wall and Broad St...I think if I was an Indian I would rather have few gambling casinos on Broadway instead...just saying..

[lakhota]

Our future plans are to turn Manhattan into a floating casino.

[reformeddaytrader]

Dec 29, 2010 18:28:12 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

Our future plans are to turn Manhattan into a floating casino.

"our" so you are the indian standing next to Obama in the Oval Office in that interesting picture.....how old are you Lak?? I would hazard a guess and say 88
and you are @ 5' 2"..??

[lakhota]

I am 64 and considerably taller.

[reformeddaytrader]

Oh so you are the Indian on Obama's right ?? I thought you are the one with the drum sorry my bad

[lakhota]

Maybe I'm the one in the red dress...

[reformeddaytrader]

Ok thanx for that

[cs]

I can see I will be using the words "are you for real" a lot here.

[Value Buy]

cs,
thanks for coming to P&M.
Do not let us scare you off. We are all of strong bodies and weak minds here.
Please forgive us.
P.S.
This of course, the weak minds-does not apply to me.

[marshabar1]

Hey! A deal's a deal. Twenty four bucks worth of trinkets to some guys from Long Island for an island they didn't own ain't peanuts. How much did Minuet have to pay the guys who actually lived there?

I suppose you think the Indians should get it fully furnished too, Lakhota.

Percy's doing great, eh?

[lakhota]

I suppose you think the Indians should get it fully furnished too, Lakhota.

No, we'd like the land returned to its natural state - before we build the giant floating casino.

[Sammy]

[dmsm]

Now the sky is falling because the POTUS acknowledged the Native Americans. How can that be? The sky has been falling for a awful long time now. I for the life of me see no problem.

[deziloooooo]

Thisn is the new " he wasn't born in the US " or" he is a secret Muslim", or he is a "socialist" or he hates all "caucasians" or///what ever...

Lakhota, what ever happend to that bill where there finally was a greement to pay the indin tibes of the US a large sum as compensation for the billions of dollers that were stolen from them by our government over the years..i believe ok'd as legal by the SCOTUS and frinally ready for passage..is that still on the books ?? I think it was to be $4 billion that even the government admits is a drop in bucket of actual stolen $ from these people.

[lakhota]

OMG, it must be true if World Net Daily is alarmed...

Obama to give Manhattan back to Native Americans?

President Obama is voicing support for a U.N. resolution that could accomplish something as radical as relinquishing some U.S. sovereignty and opening a path for the return of ancient tribal lands to American Indians, including even parts of Manhattan.

The issue is causing alarm among legal experts.

In recent remarks at the White House during a "tribal nations conference," Obama endorsed the "United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People," which includes a sweeping declaration that "indigenous peoples have a right to lands and resources they traditionally occupied or otherwise used" but that later were acquired by occupying forces.

Read the scoop on the United Nations, in "The Beast on the East River"

"U.N. resolutions like this claiming amorphous rights can be a stalking horse for future attempts to have international courts enforce broad interpretations of those rights at the expense of American sovereignty," Theodore Frank, a fellow with the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, a leading public policy think tank in New York City, told WND.

Academic legal experts indicate that American Indians during the Carter era first drew up plans for reacquisition of lost tribal lands, setting the stage for the U.N. resolution that Obama is embracing. The feasibility study, eyeing 650 million acres of federally owned land in the U.S., was conducted by the Indian Education Institute at Eastern Oregon State, one expert recalled for WND.

"Re-purchase would restore land back to its original owners thus strengthening tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction over its people and land," Julianne Jennings Nottoway, a professor of anthropology at Pima Community College in Tuscon, Ariz., said. "Also, it would allow tribes the opportunity to develop socially, politically and economically as competitors as nation-states within a global context under the act of self-determination."

The Bush White House refused to support the U.N. resolution. But last year, the Democrat-majority House and Senate passed a resolution that, in Obama's words, acknowledges "the sad and painful chapters in our shared history – a history too often marred by broken promises and grave injustices against the First Americans."

The president said, "No statement can undo the damage that was done. But it is only by heeding the lessons of our history that we can move forward."

Obama's interest is personal. He noted during the 2008 presidential campaign he was officially adopted by the Crow Nation, an Indian tribe in Montana, and he was given an Indian name.

"My Crow name is 'One Who Helps People Throughout the Land,'" Obama said.

The U.N. policy that Obama wants the U.S. to embrace would enact the following measures on behalf of his adopted peoples, including repatriation of land and regulations forcing the media to reflect the values of indigenous cultures:

Article 26 states that nations "shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources" which were once owned by indigenous people.

Article 21 indicates that nation "states shall take effective measures and, where appropriate, special measures to ensure continuing improvement of their (indigenous people's) economic and social conditions. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities."

Article 16 compels nations to "take effective measures to ensure that state-owned media duly reflect indigenous cultural diversity. States … should encourage privately owned media to adequately reflect indigenous cultural diversity."
There are 47 articles in the U.N. resolution.

The international agreement is very serious business, one legal expert tells WND, and could cause problems for the U.S. long after Obama is gone from the White House, if made part of U.S. law.

"One can anticipate that some tribes will seek to use this resolution to re-litigate centuries-old land disputes that courts have already rejected," said Frank at the Manhattan Institute.

The litigation process, according to the roadmap drawn up during the Carter era, would seek, however, to create a "non-hostile environment" in which tribes could repurchase lands and "extinguish the rights of current occupants," Jennings Nottoway told WND.

The anthropology professor reckons that 30 percent of aboriginal land was not ceded to Americans through the process of treaty, "but assumed – false premise or without proof – ownership and subordination," she added.

"Tribes are not asking New Yorkers to leave Manhattan and leave their homes, memories and the lands on which they are built upon, but to make available open lands/spaces for repurchase that would be used exclusively for tribal affairs."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been softening the ground for this Obama policy for some months. The U.S. Department of State indicates on its website that it has completed a "policy review" and "tribal consultation" on the indigenous peoples treaty in recent weeks.

During the White House conference, Obama said it is his aim to ensure that American Indians "had a voice in the White House … so long as I held this office, never again would Native Americans be forgotten or ignored."

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[ungenteel]

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Please stop with dimwit rhetoric

[lakhota]

Righties always need a boogeyman.

[upstatemom]

If in DC, visit the Native American museum and see the reality of what our ancesters and our government did to so many tribes. Great museum, I left there very sad.