US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations

[Paul Mobbs]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/04/us-stolen-land-indian-tribes-un

US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations

UN's correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat 
'racial discrimination' felt by Native Americans

Chris McGreal, Guardian On-line, Friday 4th May 2012


A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native 
Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen 
from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic 
racial discrimination.

James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, 
said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the 
part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by 
Indian tribes.

Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, 
indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now 
living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of 
dispossession of their lands and resources, the breakdown of their 
societies and "numerous instances of outright brutality, all grounded on 
racial discrimination".

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