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Legislation should be only way to solve land claim

Friday, September 7, 2007 10:57 AM EDT

Proposal for handling national Indian land claims:

� Immediately ratify all existing treaties - Indians no longer wards of the federal government.

� Abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs (incompetent) and have trust fund payments administered by the attorneys general of individual states.

� All Indian lands in question will be subsequently returned to the individual states and tax-free land is returned to the tax rolls.

� Eliminate sovereignty as per congressional ruling in 1871.

� Indians, as U.S. citizens, should enjoy all of the rights, privileges and responsibilities available to all citizens.

The federal government should legislate - not mediate, not confiscate, not obfuscate!

Let's end representation without taxation!

Donald M. O'Brien

Aurora

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The Citizens' Say

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DD wrote on Sep 5, 2007 7:36 PM:

" I say there is only one way to handle the indians. Negotiate. If they aren't any better than they were a couple of hundred years ago, they don't stand a chance. :) "

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