{"id":1148,"date":"2022-11-30T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aigenom.org\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:15:36","slug":"south-dakota-officially-recognizes-the-treaty-of-ft-laramie-of-1868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aigenom.org\/south-dakota-officially-recognizes-the-treaty-of-ft-laramie-of-1868\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bSouth Dakota Officially Recognizes the Treaty of Ft. Laramie of 1868"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200b\u200bThe definition of \u201cdiscovery\u201d per Black\u2019s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition is: \u201cInternational law, as the foundation for a claim of national ownership or sovereignty, discovery is the finding of a country, continent, or island previously unknown, or previously known only to its uncivilized inhabitants.\u201d<\/p>\n

With this 1823 law, (Johnson v. M\u2019Intosh), the Supreme Court institutionalized racial discrimination against the Indians. It guaranteed that the Indians would never win their treaty land back in a court of law. In America, not only is justice blind, it is crazier that a bat. The gist of this law says that Indians owned the land right up to the point that Columbus \u201cdiscovered\u201d it. This law deserves to be dragged from the vaults of America\u2019s Freemasonry past and made to stand in the light of day.<\/p>\n

Apparently South Dakotans have had enough of being witnesses to the historic injustices perpetrated \u00a0against Native Americans in their state. Too long had white America sat idly by and watched unjust laws that promote racism and instigate wars of genocide continue to happen. On January 25, 2018 the South Dakota Senate passed Senate Resolution 1 which confirmed \u201cthe legitimacy of, and South Dakota\u2019s support for, the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie\u201d<\/p>\n

Most South Dakotans know their history. Who can forget the seizure of the Homestake Gold Mine? As President Grant said at the time, \u201cGold has been discovered in the Black Hills, a portion of the Sioux reservation\u201d. \u00a0Even this event would have been expunged from the history books had it not been for a new technology at the time—photography. The photographs have burned into American memory the images of the dead, piled high and about to be thrown into the mass grave at Wounded Knee.<\/p>\n

What must never be forgotten by everyone are the laws that justify land grabbing . The tactics in the past the government used against other tribes with treaties must never be forgotten. Only in the light of past legal precedent can racist colonial law be understood. The chilling lesson to be learned is to never venture into the white man\u2019s court seeking treaty rights because you cannot win in a kangaroo court. All that has ever been gained by taking a treaty into the white man\u2019s court is not land rights but a tiny monetary settlement dangled in front of an impoverished people for their homeland.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Government cited Johnson v. M\u2019Intosh \u00a0in 2001 when giving their reason for ignoring the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863 with the Western Shoshone.<\/p>\n

In 1955, when the Tee-Hit-Ton Indians of Alaska had their timber sold by the government to a logging company and clear-cut around their villages, the government also cited Johnson v. M\u2019Intosh . \u00a0The Supreme Court chiseled this colonial law in stone when Justice Stanley Reed wrote the majority opinion which said in part:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt leaves with Congress, where it belongs, the policy of Indian gratuities for the termination of Indian occupancy of\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Government-owned land rather than making compensation for its value a rigid constitutional principle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026After conquest (Indian tribes) were permitted to occupy portions of territory over which they had previously\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 exercised sovereignty, as we use that term. This is not a property right but amounts to a right of occupancy which\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 may be terminated and\u2026fully disposed of by the sovereign itself without any legally enforceable obligation to\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 compensate the Indians\u2026This position of the Indians has long been rationalized by the legal theory that discovery\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and conquest gave the conquerors sovereignty over and ownership of the lands thus obtained.\u201d<\/p>\n

During World War II, Hitler had a policy of land seizure called \u201cLebensraum\u201d–living space. \u00a0He justified seizing other peoples lands because the German people needed living space. \u00a0Do you know where he got such an idea? \u00a0I will give you a hint. \u00a0He referred to those people already living in those lands as \u201cnatives\u201d.\u00a0 Speaking of the Jews and the Slavs he once said, \u201cThe natives will be our Redskins\u201d. \u00a0This is a direct correlation between the Jewish Holocaust and genocide in America. Genocide began in Germany during World War II with an attitude of \u201cAryan\u201d white supremacy. \u00a0Laws were made which literally took away the homes and lands of Jews and others who were not German. It was this same attitude that was painfully on display for all the world to see in 21st Century\u00a0 America.\u00a0 At Standing Rock, Native Americans who had lived on the land from time immemorial were arrested as trespassers and labeled terrorists. Confrontations such as this in the past would have resulted in the Indians being expunged from the face of the earth and American memory had it not been for the advent of videography and social media.<\/p>\n

Apparently South Dakotans have had enough of being part of an American Dream that is an American nightmare for Native Americans. \u00a0Living under the rule of law is desirable but witnessing unjust laws that dispossess an entire people in Nazi-like fashion was just too much to bear.<\/p>\n

Steve Melendez, Paiute<\/p>\n

President, American Indian Genocide Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u200b\u200bThe definition of \u201cdiscovery\u201d per Black\u2019s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition is: \u201cInternational law, as the foundation for a claim of national ownership or sovereignty, discovery is the finding of a country, continent, or island previously unknown, or previously known only to its uncivilized inhabitants.\u201d With this 1823 law, (Johnson v. M\u2019Intosh), the Supreme Court institutionalized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u200bSouth Dakota Officially Recognizes the Treaty of Ft. 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