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Show # 1046 Page 9 those smallpox infested blankets and the poison food that they gave us. We even have to pay for the Trail of Tears, you know, for the cavalry coming in and, you know, moving us. We have to pay for, for the wages of those soldiers at that time. Most basically, number three, the very existence of raises the question asking how one can challenge the legality of the case in itself, as in the case of the Pueblo. How can one establish that one has had a moral and legal right to the land and also maintain that the right was not exceeded by acts of the United States Government? At the very least, under the case it should be possible to claim that certain hunting and fishing rights were not exceeded by the , because our treaties, you know, which guaranteed us the right to hunt and fish forever, are being violated because they are legitimizing all these land steals or land settlements as they call them, but they're denying the Indian people of their traditional hunting and fishing territories. And that cuts them off from their life so that the economy because they can't fit into the mold of eight hours a day and every day for a whole week. It's a mold that's against their whole nature and physical makeup. But more funds than actual it is possible to get an injunction to the right, to fight with the basic premise of the Land Claims Commission. That there was a valid case here. The |
