{"id":4327,"date":"2012-05-05T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T00:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2012-05-05T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T00:02:41","slug":"from-the-guardian-us-should-return-stolen-land-to-indian-tribes-says-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/05\/from-the-guardian-us-should-return-stolen-land-to-indian-tribes-says-united-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"(from the Guardian) &#8216;US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><em>A Native American at his home on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, which has some of the US&#8217;s poorest living conditions. Photograph: Jennifer Brown\/Star Ledger\/Corbis<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>A <a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on United Nations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/unitednations\">United Nations<\/a> 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of <a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Indigenous peoples\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/indigenous-peoples\">indigenous peoples<\/a>, said no member of the <a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on US Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/congress\">US Congress<\/a> would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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 &#8220;numerous instances of outright brutality, all grounded on racial discrimination&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/may\/04\/us-stolen-land-indian-tribes-un\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4328\" title=\"US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/US-should-return-stolen-l-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/US-should-return-stolen-l-008.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/US-should-return-stolen-l-008-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS, CLICK &#8216;THE ZEPHYR&#8217; AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/may\/04\/us-stolen-land-indian-tribes-un<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 A Native American at his home on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, which has some of the US&#8217;s poorest living conditions. 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