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"A report published this week by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in
detail the dispossession of $1.7 trillion worth of Indigenous homelands in
Colorado by the state and the U.S. and the more than $546 million the state has
reaped in mineral extraction from them.
The report, shared first with
The Associated Press, identifies 10 tribal
nations that have “aboriginal title, congressional title, and treaty title to
lands within Colorado” and details the ways the land was legally and illegally
taken. It determined that many of the transactions were in direct violation of
treaty rights or in some cases lacked title for a legal transfer.
“Once we were removed, they just simply started divvying up the land, creating
parcels and selling it to non-Natives and other interests and businesses,” said
Dallin Maybee, an artist, legal scholar and enrolled member of the Northern
Arapaho Tribe who took part in the Truth, Restoration, and Education
Commission, which compiled the report.
“When you think about examples of land theft,” Maybee continued, “that is one
of the most blatant instances that we could see.”
The commission was convened by People of the Sacred Land, a Colorado-based
nonprofit that works to document the history of Indigenous displacement in the
state. The commission and its report are modeled after similar truth and
reconciliation commissions that sought to comprehensively account for genocide
and the people still affected by those acts and governmental policies."
Via Lisa Stranger and Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
