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Freedmen continue Civil War fight

Descendants of Native Americans' Slaves Left Out of $3.4 Billion Settlement By RYAN ABBOTT http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/21/32757.htm COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) - Descendants of slaves owned by the so-called (so called?; they were called civilized because they were farmers in the SE) Five Civilized Tribes challenged the $3.4 billion class action settlement in Elouise Cobell et al. v. Ken Salazar, in a class action of their own. The Harvest Institute Freedman Federation says the Cobell settlement was racially discriminatory, with the United States paying off descendants of treasonous (lol - treasonous? - lol - give it a rest already!) Indian slave-owners who took the South's side in the Civil War, while stiffing descendants of the Indians' slaves. The $3.4 billion settlement in Cobell v. Salazar, which will be implemented under Title I of the Claims Resolution Act of 2010, "is racially discriminatory and perpetuates past unlawful racial discrimination," the Free

Duh! This was all Native Land before Europeans

Feinstein wades into urban gaming fight By Malcolm Maclachlan 12/02/10 12:00 AM PST http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=zbfozf2sq3hu5p&xid=zbf7ptghovltry&done=.zbfozf2sq45u5p Opponents of urban casinos in the Bay Area have a powerful ally in Washington: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein, a Democrat and California’s senior senator, has proposed changes in the law that would make it harder for tribes to take new lands into trust. It’s a seemingly obscure legal designation that has serious implications for just about any tribe that would want to build an urban casino. Under Feinstein’s changes, a tribe would have to show both a “substantial direct aboriginal connection to the land” and “substantial direct modern one.” (Duh! This was all Native Lands at one time - direct aboriginal connection; and the fact they were forced from it should be a continuing trespass which would prevent applying a *direct modern connection*; in other words Natives can't have a direct