Broken Promises

[Keith Broaders]

There are 574 Native Americans tribes that are officially recognized as sovereign nations which collectively occupy reservations consisting of 56 million acres of Federal land. According to a Supreme Court Ruling in 1823 Native Americans do not have a right to own land, they only had a right of occupancy. 

When Columbus discovered a land that had been inhabited for over a thousand of years by millions of indigenous people, he claimed ownership of the land for Spain and the Catholic Church.

In 1823 Chief Justice John Marshall of the Supreme Court ruled that the Papal Bull issued in 1493 by Pope Alexander gave the European Monarchs the authority of the Church to claim the land enslave the inhabitants.

This Doctrine of Discovery decreed that the native peoples were occupants, but not the owners of the land.

 This ruling justified the unlawful theft of over up to 2 billion acres of land in North America that had been the property of over 1,000 different tribes for thousands of years. tribes

In the United States today there are 574 different Indian Reservations that are owned and by the Federal government and managed by the Bureau of Indias Affairs.

If these tribes are sovereign as they claim, why is the U.S. government allowed to deprive Native American Citizens the same property rights everyone else.

The keeping of treaties ended in 1871 when Congress ceased to recognize the tribes as sovereign nations

The Supreme Court also ruled that Congress has the full power over the Indian affairs and could over-ride the previous treaties signed.

The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was part of the amendment guarantees that all citizens are to be treated equally.

At Wounded Knee, South Dakota over 250 American citizens were murdered by the U.S. Army. Twenty Congressional medals of honor were awarded to the most courageous of the assassins.

Why are these facts not revealed in government schools?