https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180978627/Missouri Cave Filled With Ancient Artwork Sold Against Osage Nation’s Wishes
The Native American tribe had hoped to preserve and protect the site, which may be associated with the Mississippian culture
An anonymous bidder has purchased Picture Cave, a Missouri cave system filled with 1,000-year-old Native American artwork, for $2.2 million. Held by St. Louis–based Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers, the sale went forward despite the Osage Nation’s efforts to block it, reports Jim Salter for the Associated Press (AP).
In a statement quoted by the AP, the Osage Nation—which had hoped to “protect and preserve” the site—described the auction as “truly heartbreaking.”
“Our ancestors lived in this area for 1,300 years,” the statement reads. “This was our land. We have hundreds of thousands of our ancestors buried throughout Missouri and Illinois, including Picture Cave.”
Selkirk’s website describes the two-cave system, located about 60 miles west of St. Louis, as the “most important rock art site in North America.” Between 800 and 1100 C.E., the auction house adds, people used the caves for sacred rituals, astronomical studies and the transmission of oral tradition.
“It was a collective commune of a very significant space and there is only speculation on the number of Indigenous peoples that used the space for many, many, many different reasons, mostly communication,” Selkirk Executive Director Bryan Laughlin tells Fox 2 Now’s Monica Ryan.
Husband-and-wife scholarly team Carol Diaz-Granados and James Duncan, who have spent 20 years researching the cave, opposed the sale. Diaz-Granados is an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, while Duncan is the former director of the Missouri State Museum and a scholar of Osage oral history.
“Auctioning off a sacred American Indian site truly sends the wrong message,” Diaz-Granados tells the AP. “It’s like auctioning off the Sistine Chapel.”
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Dear fucking Cthulhu, hasn't the US treated Native Americans bad enough?
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Lakota Man @LakotaMan1 wrote: What the government calls water on the Little Red River Indian Reservation. To hell with colonization — and its ostensible “greatness.”
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https://twitter.com/MaggieBlackhawk/sta ... 4525185028Maggie Blackhawk @MaggieBlackhawk wrote: #SCOTUS hears oral argument today in a case that attempts an end run around the Court's 2020 McGirt decision. Even more that a direct challenge, this case risks the legitimacy of the Court and our separation of powers--once again asking SCOTUS to operate as a super legislature.
In McGirt, the Court resolved whether Congress diminished the borders of the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation. It held that Congress hadn't. In Castro-Huerta, the Court is asked to decide whether *all* states have criminal jurisdiction over certain crimes in
Indian Country.
By contrast to McGirt, Congress *has* regulated who has jurisdiction over crimes within Indian Country since the Founding. Over the past two hundred years, Congress has felled forests to legislate specifically which governments have jurisdiction over crimes "against Indians."
The current federal framework allows states to opt-in to jurisdiction over crimes "against Indians" within Indian Country--and to cede jurisdiction once opted-in. But petitioner wants to override 200 years of legislation and mandate by judicial fiat state criminal jurisdiction.
Petitioner argues to extend precedent over 100 years old. Precedent the Court has declined to extend and has called into question. More, petitioner reads these cases out of their historical context: the allotment era (an era that Congress formally repudiated forty years later)
Petitioner argues that in the late 19th c., Congress assumed reservations became part of states and federal power was diminished. This belies the fundamentals of Indian law. States assumed power over Indian Country in the late 19th c, because Congress conferred jx with allotment.
The ugliest twist in OK's argument, is that the doctrine the Court applied in McGirt (Solem, &c.) held long ago that allotment was *irrelevant.* Reinvigorating Draper undermines the Court's own decades-old thinking and places allotment era policy at the forefront of Indian law.
Background of case: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/ar ... ction-case
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Former tribal leader convicted in casino bribery case
A former leader of a Massachusetts Native American tribe has been convicted of bribery and extortion charges related to its long-planned casino project
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tri ... itter_abcn
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A former leader of a Massachusetts Native American tribe has been convicted of bribery and extortion charges related to its long-planned casino project
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tri ... itter_abcn
It was the Wampanoags that the Mayflower pilgrims found in what is now Plymouth MA.But Cedric Cromwell, former leader of the Mashpee Wampanoag, was cleared by the federal jury in Boston of some charges, including one count of extortion and a count of bribery conspiracy, prosecutors said.
David DeQuattro, Cromwell’s co-defendant and the owner of an architecture firm in Providence, Rhode Island, was also similarly convicted of bribery but cleared of other charges, according to the office of Rachael Rollins, U.S. attorney for Massachusetts. The two will be sentenced in September.
Cromwell's lawyer didn't respond to emails seeking comment, but DeQuattro's lawyer, Martin Weinberg, said he'll be seeking a “complete acquittal” for his client.
Mashpee Wampanoag chair Brian Weeden said the case represents an “unfortunate chapter” for the roughly 3,000-member tribe.
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Report Catalogs Abuse of Native American Children at Former Government Schools
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland called for a review last year, after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of children who attended similar schools in Canada.
By Mark Walker
May 11, 2022, 12:02 p.m. ET
An initial investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland cataloged some of the brutal conditions that Native American children endured at more than 400 boarding schools that the federal government forced them to attend between 1819 and 1969. The inquiry was an initial step, Ms. Haaland said, toward addressing the “intergenerational trauma” that the policy left behind.
An Interior Department report released on Wednesday highlighted the abuse of many of the children at the government-run schools, such as beatings, withholding of food and solitary confinement. It also identified burial sites at more than 50 of the former schools, a number that the department expects will grow as the review continues.
The report is the first step in a comprehensive review that Ms. Haaland, the first Native American cabinet secretary, announced in June after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of children who attended similar schools in Canada provoked a national reckoning there.
The initial investigation found that “approximately 19 federal Indian boarding schools accounted for over 500 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian child deaths.” That number is expected to grow, the report said.
Beginning in 1869 until the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were taken from their homes and families and placed in the boarding schools, which were operated by the government and churches.
There were 20,000 children at the schools by 1900; by 1925, the number had more than tripled, according to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
The discovery of the unmarked graves in Canada last year — 215 in British Columbia, 750 more in Saskatchewan — led Ms. Haaland to announce that her agency would search the grounds of former schools in the United States and identify any remains. Ms. Haaland’s grandparents attended such schools.
“The consequences of federal Indian boarding school policies — including the intergenerational trauma caused by the family separation and cultural eradication inflicted upon generations of children as young as 4 years old — are heartbreaking and undeniable,” Ms. Haaland said in a statement. “It is my priority to not only give voice to the survivors and descendants of federal Indian boarding school policies, but also to address the lasting legacies of these policies so Indigenous peoples can continue to grow and heal.”
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A good argument to return all lands to the indigenous peoples.
Lakota Man @LakotaMan1 wrote: Setup abortion clinics on Indian reservations. Whereas, sovereign nations, Supreme Court decisions, like overturning Roe V Wade — DO NOT APPLY.
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SCOTUS shits on Native Americans. Again.
My understanding is that Gorsuch has been a steadfast champion of Native American rights. Who knew?
We're onboard the crazy train, and there's apparently no stopping it now.
BTW- worth pointing out is that Gorsuch dissented, writing that the decision "allows Oklahoma to intrude on a feature of tribal sovereignty recognized since the founding." He added, "One can only hope the political branches and future courts will do their duty to honor this Nation’s promises even as we have failed today to do our own."Elizabeth A. Reese (Yunpovi) @yunpovi wrote: This #SCOTUS opinion in #CastroHuerta is an act of conquest. Full stop.
The right and power of tribes to rule themselves is being dismissed in favor of state power.
Tribes are…I can’t even write it…part of states.
For those wondering, “Why is it bad that states can prosecute too?”
Three answers:
1- States/Tribes have a long history of animosity. Fair treatment isn’t a fair assumption.
2- Tribes want to make different laws for their land than states.
3- Many resources are a zero sum game.
My understanding is that Gorsuch has been a steadfast champion of Native American rights. Who knew?
https://twitter.com/MaggieBlackhawk/sta ... 5750213633Maggie Blackhawk @MaggieBlackhawk wrote: Against hundreds of years of congressional action, against solid #SCOTUS precedent, and hundreds of years of history, the Supreme Court held today that states have jurisdiction over certain crimes in Indian Country by judicial fiat. A devastating result for our democracy.
There is little to say here other than the fact that our Supreme Court has become a superlegislature. Precedent, statutes, separation of powers, reason, the rule of law, these things all mean nothing.
We're onboard the crazy train, and there's apparently no stopping it now.
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This is a good summary of what I find most concerning. Abortion decision is a symptom of the disease.
There is little to say here other than the fact that our Supreme Court has become a superlegislature. Precedent, statutes, separation of powers, reason, the rule of law, these things all mean nothing.
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Not likely and not a really viable solution, even if they wanted to, which is a big if.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:26 pm A good argument to return all lands to the indigenous peoples.
Lakota Man @LakotaMan1 wrote: Setup abortion clinics on Indian reservations. Whereas, sovereign nations, Supreme Court decisions, like overturning Roe V Wade — DO NOT APPLY.
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Senators AOC and Warren have pushed this idea on other federal lands as well. The White House via Karine Jean-Pierre has put the kibosh on that for Reasons as well.realist wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:12 pmNot likely and not a really viable solution, even if they wanted to, which is a big if.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:26 pm A good argument to return all lands to the indigenous peoples.
https://twitter.com/LakotaMan1/status/1 ... 8424150017Lakota Man @LakotaMan1 wrote: Setup abortion clinics on Indian reservations. Whereas, sovereign nations, Supreme Court decisions, like overturning Roe V Wade — DO NOT APPLY.
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https://twitter.com/MuscogeeNation/stat ... 2011005952The Muscogee Nation @MuscogeeNation wrote: The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today in Castro-Huerta v Oklahoma is an alarming step backward for justice on our reservation in cases where non-Native criminals commit crimes against Native people. 1/8
It hands jurisdictional responsibility in these cases to the State, which during its long, pre-McGirt, history of illegal jurisdiction on our reservation, routinely failed to deliver justice for Native victims. 2/8
While we hope for the best, we are not optimistic that the quality of effort from the State of Oklahoma will be any better than before. 3/8
Today’s ruling also purports to expand the State of Oklahoma’s authority on reservation lands to unprecedented levels to include concurrent jurisdiction on trust and restricted lands. This will have a ripple effect throughout Indian Country across the United States. 4/8
Tribal governments in collaboration with the federal government are best suited to protect our people and administer justice on our reservations. 5/8
Public safety would be better served by expanding Tribal authority to prosecute any crime committed by any offender within our reservation boundaries rather than empowering entities that have demonstrated a lack of commitment to public safety on Indian lands. 6/8
We look forward to collaborating with Members of Congress and the federal government to identify all options available to empower Tribal governments to ensure the safety and prosperity of all who reside, work or visit our reservation. 7/8
This is a pivotal moment for all tribal nations. 8/8
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