NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN RIGHTS - JOHN ECHOHAWK - PAWNEE

Embezzlement
EMBEZZLEMENT is the fraudulent appropriation by a person to his or her own use of property or money entrusted to that person's care but owned by someone else. This is all it is; blatant theft that continues to go on day after day after day.

By the way, I saved some of the more pathetic embezzlement for the last few slides. If I put all that could be found on this vid, you would be sitting in your chair for a heck of a lot longer than 9 minutes.

Now, if these CRIMES were committed by anyone else, they'd be doing time.

John Echohawk is a Pawnee Native American and he's also an attorney. Aside from that, he's a hero and a leader.

check this very interesting site out
http://www.narf.org

American Indian advocates John Echohawk and Billy Frank Jr., who spent decades fighting for Indians' legal rights and fishing rights, were honored again by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center of the American West on Nov. 2.


NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND--
Current Cases & Projects Index
http://www.narf.org/cases/index.html

The center will present Echohawk and Frank with its highest honor, the Wallace Stegner Award, at 7 p.m. in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.

National Indian Law Library
http://www.narf.org/nill/index.htm

The National Indian Law Library (NILL) is a public law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law. Our mission is to develop and make accessible a unique and valuable collection of Indian law resources and other information relating to Native Americans.

A Guide for Tribal Court Law Clerks and Judges (there's a free download there)
http://nilllibrary.blogspot.com/

Pawnee Nation College
Attorney: Walter Echo-Hawk

Case Update

NARF is participating in the historic birth of a tribal college. Walter Echo-Hawk is serving on the Board of Trustees of the Pawnee Nation Academy. During its first year of operation, in which twenty-one courses were offered to 99 enrolled students, NARF assisted the College in developing a fund-raising strategy and in securing pro bono counsel to obtain 501(c)(3) non-profit status for the new college. As the second year commences, the college is focusing on completing work necessary to obtain accreditation and it continues fund-raising efforts for that purpose.

The Tribal Education Departments National Assembly, Co. (TEDNA)
http://www.tedna.org/about/about.htm

Billy Frank, Jr. is a hero and a legend.

NATIVE AMERICAN COLLEGE FUND:
http://www.collegefund.org/

Individual Indian Money (IIM) Accounts Cobell v. Kempthorne

Fact Sheet:
http://www.narf.org/cases/iimgeninfo.htm


Navajo Nation
http://www.navajo.org/

Seminole Tribe of Florida
http://www.seminoletribe.com/

Official Site of The Cherokee Nation
http://www.cherokee.org/

http://www.cherokee-online.com/

Cherokee Phoenix
http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/

THE CHEYENNE RIVER LAKOTA NATION
Home of the Mni coujou, Ita zipcola, Siha sapa, & O'o' he numpa bands
http://www.sioux.org/

United National Indian Tribal Youth
http://www.unityinc.org/

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[letstalkaboutstuff]

Hi. I made this vid. Since then, some things have happened with regards to NARF and money. Certainly not near enough, but some things have happened. Nothing will repay the full amount owed. Also, I could add far more tax dollars poured into the pockets of disguised government groups and payola to government buddies, but we all know the system is beyond corrupt and just..well, sickening, just like the corrupt degenerates running it.

[jonandra]

The Natives will never get what is owed/promised to them. Nor will the freed slaves from Africa. Nor any of their descendants. They don't really need the material fallacy of money, anyway. The true crime is forcing them from their land, and taking away their way of life, and their dignity. The current government continues to lie and oppress, their own people no less. I used to be a proud American, but I am disillusioned. :(

[fromtribeofgad]

@DarkEgg5 there may not be any laws for war,but there is laws how to treat humanity!

[hint0122]

and look at your people now. you have rights that american citizens dont have.

[MsAKSfan]

@hint0122 That was after the Civil War... it was as I said before the Trail of Tears. Of course, you are free to move off the rez. That's your choice, but until about 1930 - 40 you could not own land and you could not represent yourself in courts, so you gave up alot. That's why those who chose to leave and could pass for white did. Some never left with the Trail but hid in the mountains... I know the history of my people.

[jonandra]

@hint0122 The Native Americans may have rights that we do not. That doesn't mean they have more rights. Nor does it mean they have less. It's all relative. My beef is not specifically about the Native's rights, but more that the government conveniently forgets its promises every chance it gets, which is about every 4 years. Our current system needs a serious overhaul on practically all its policies.

[hint0122]

well they were not considered to be cherokee. the ancestors of the slaves, called freedmen, were kicked out of the tribes until recently. if you dont like living on a reservation, you are free to move someone else.

[MsAKSfan]

@hint0122 Cherokee owned slaves. They could buy their freedom at which time they were considered part of the Nation. Their children were born part of the Nation. Then they were marched across the Mississippi River with little more than the clothes on their backs in the dead of winter. What do my brothers and sisters on the reservations want? What is their due! Rez often worse than any ghetto. Read the words...

[hint0122]

so what do they want? there was a war fought to free the slaves, some of which were owned by the cherokee. the Indians have more rights then american citizens do.

[moheeshe]

Chatickas-si-Chaticks, let us not forget who we are ..... proud people.

[xeemthreem]

Yes....Our Native American brothers are very beautiful!!!

[moheeshe]

i am pawnee, one of the many few but seriously proud of the pawnee people. listen and learn, we have been stepped on and forgotten. one day..one day.