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Box 2574 Fido Net 1:352/333 :: :: Olympia, WA 360-786-9629 :: :: 98507-2574 USA The Quarto Mundista BBS :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: DOCUMENT: ATNI8410.TXT A F F I L I A T E D T R I B E S O F N O R T H W E S T I N D I A N S RESOLUTION #84-F-010 WHEREAS, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) is a regional organization comprised of American Indians from the States of Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Nevada; and WHEREAS, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians recognizes the needs and concerns of the member Tribes and the serious impact upon Native American Indians when specific issues are collectively addressed by Local, Regional, and National Indian governments and their organizations; and WHEREAS, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians is dedicated to the ideals of improvement of health, education, social welfare, and economic development of American Indians; and THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians and its membership does hereby support the attached resolution as submitted by the Kootenay Indian Area Council (Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada) in representation of the St. Mary's Band, Columbia Lake Band, Shuswap Band, Lower Kootenay Band and the Tobacco Plains Band of Canada to request support regarding the infringement of the aboriginal border crossing rights of the Kootenay Indian people and in support of their nation's aboriginal trading, and inter- indigenous cultural relationships and submits this resolution to the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Annual Convention in Spokane, Washington on September 9-14, 1984 requesting their support, action, resolution and submission to the proper authorities or agencies; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the National Congress of American Indians take the necessary action to satisfactorily resolve the resolution as endorsed and adopted by the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians. CERTIFICATION The foregoing resolution was duly endorsed at the Annual Conference of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, at Spokane, Washington, on September 8, 1984, with a quorum present and voting. __________________________ ____________________________ Delbert Frank, President Faith Mayhew, Secretary ATTACHMENT KOOTENAY INDIAN AREA COUNCIL SITE 15, MISSION RD. S.S. #1, CRANBROOK, B.C. V1C 4H4 RESOLUTION WHEREAS: the member Bands of the Kootenay Indian Area Council; St. Mary's Band, Columbia Lake Band, Shuswap Band, Lower Kootenay Band and Tobacco Plains Band, have adopted a KOOTENAY NATION LAND CLAIM AND DECLARATION, July 8, 1981, and; WHEREAS: the Declaration stated that the Kootenay people have tolerated "the disruption of our inalienable right to sovereignty", and; WHEREAS: one of the disruptions was the establishment of the Canada/USA border, separating the Kootenay Nation in the eyes of the Canadian and American Governments, despite the traditional laws of the Kootenay Nation, and; WHEREAS: the Kootenay Nation has never ceded their traditional laws or recognized that our people are separated by an international boundary. The Kootenay Nation continue to respect and protect the right of a Kootenay Indian to travel, live and work within the traditional territory of the Kootenay, and; WHEREAS: the Kootenay people both north and south of the international boundary therefore have never accepted the Canadian/American boundary as applicable to the Kootenay Nation. Nor does the Kootenay Nation accept the authority of the Immigration Act as applicable to the Kootenay Nation because the Kootenay have never been immigrants in our own land, and; WHEREAS: the member Bands of the Kootenay Indian Area Council reserve the sole right to employ people of Kootenay ancestry within our administration, and; WHEREAS: Margaret Friedlander, a Kootenay Indian from the Confederated Salish and Kootenay Tribe of Montana has been hired by the Tobacco Plains Band as Band Administrator based on her qualifications, in addition to her understanding of the Kootenay culture and language, and; WHEREAS: attempts have been made by the Canadian Government to remove Margaret Friedlander from Canada. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the National Congress of American Indians supports the stand taken by the Kootenay Nation regarding aboriginal border crossing rights, based on our knowledge that the international boundary is an arbitrary line drawn without consideration of indigenous peoples, and violating their nations aboriginal trading relationships and inter-indigenous cultural relationships. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To have a current Center For World Indigenous Studies Publication Catalogue sent to you via e-mail, send a request to jburrows@halcyon.com FTP ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/FWDP/CWIS/cwis-cat.txt Center For World Indigenous Studies P.O. Box 2574 Olympia, WA U.S.A. 98507-2574 BBS: 360-786-9629 FAX: 360-956-1087 OCR Provided by Caere Corporation's OmniPage Professional