Established by Congress in 1964, the Indian Claims Commission's ("ICC"), now defunct, province was to determine outstanding American Indian land title disputes.

So..., the way it worked was that, in /62, the ICC "determined" that the Shoshone's title had been 'extinguished" in the latter part of the 19th century by--get this--"gradual encroachemnt by whites, settlers and others, and the acquisition, disposition or taking of the lands by the United States," and it proceeded to award the tribe $26 million in compensation for the land (OH WOW!!!), this for "full title extinguishment." However, the ICC never actually did meet its obligation to establish an actual date of the 'taking", nor did it identify the number of acres or specific areas where encroachment occured...

How awfully funny (...???) that the gov. offered a $25 million reward fot the capture of Saddam... In other words, we sell the Iraqis a s__tload of conventional weapons, we start up their chemical and biological programs by selling them a pesticides plant, plus Kissenger & Assoc. unload $1 billion in nuclear components for their nuclear weapons program, and then we spend billions invading--to save the Iraqi people and the entire free world from the chronic abuses of a ruthless dictator..., meanwhile the gov. is guilty of the blatant theft (and total trashing) of the ancestral lands of Native Americans. And these people are only saved when the U.N. decides to step in... Huh???

Wasn't it enought for the white Angle Saxon to have stollen a continent form the native American, now they want the last square inch on which they stand. The stupitidy, greed, and arrogance of the governance of this nation will one day sink into the abyss.

It is time our government stops the persecution of the Native Americans, along with all other indigenous people of the world. It is time we, the voters, change the way our government uses the world and its inhabitants.

If you would like to know more about the fight and the rights of the Western Shoshone Nation please visit this web site: http://www.angelfire.com/nv2/wells/shoshone.html

Has anyone ever considered the fact that within the Constitution of the United States it is written that when the United States enters into a treaty with a foriegn nation that this treaty becomes the Law of the Land? In addition, there are absolutely no provisions that permits any treaty to be dissovlved by way of gradual encroachment. This act is a violation of the Constitution. Therefore, the United States has not only denied the Western Shoshone their rights...they have openly conducted criminal activities in another country that they hold treaty with. Isn't this the very activity that the U.S. is fighting against in other countries? Too bad they can't set an example in their own.

Only the voters can change the path the government is on. But it must be done this election in the United States.