Shoshone Tribe fights back, YOU can help!

Robert T. Coulter, Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center, describes an unusual opportunity to overturn one of the most discriminatory and unconstitutional legal doctrines affecting Indian and Alaska Native tribes. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the government from taking any property without just compensation and due process of law. This rule applies to everyone in the country except Indian tribes. The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe has been a victim of this faulty application of the law. The Timbisha Shoshone case presents a historic legal challenge unlike any other case in federal Indian law. Timbisha is a small tribe living in Death Valley that does not have the funds to defend itself without our help.

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[geoghol]

This attorney was not hired by the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe. He was hired by some individuals claiming to be the Tribal Council. The BIA stopped recognizing Joe Kennedy prior to the filing of the lawsuit that this guy filed. Yes our Tribe is poor and we could use the money. But the Western Shoshone money is going to go to the Tribal members that qualify. If the Tribe received the money the members would never get any of it.

[acerb45666555]

i send this vid,>>a Suomi band..>>"Korpiklanni (Shaman) Jalla"<< to Shoshoni who might wanna see the other side of the sea. to be specific, several hundred miles north of the Baltic Sea!

[Ahwahneechee]

The earliest written documentation shows that the Paiutes were the original Indians of Yosemite, not the non-profit Southern Sierra Miwuks. In the earliest written documentation Chief Tenaya was founder of the PAIUTE colony of Ahwahnee, and leader of the Paiute Ahwahneechees.

[Ahwahneechee]

This seems similar to our problem, we are the Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute Indian Community, and we have been written out by Yosemite National Park Service and replaced by a non-profit group that was not indigenous to Yosemite Valley, but was afraid to enter Yosemite. The group were the scouts for the white military and helped push the original Yosemite natives, the Paiutes out, but we have the evidence and the truth.

[nightcrowred]

Please add me to a mailing list or get in touch with me, I'm Duckwater Shoshone, I would like to know alot more.. thanks..