Joann Spotted Bear carried a message to the United Nations on behalf of the Tetuwan Treaty Council of Grandmothers. Spotted Bear made a joint statement to the PFII under the topic Human Rights (4a) on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, about corruption, fraud, and violence perpetrated by colonial powers recommending the PFII promote respect for the rule of law. Spotted Bear also carried documents supporting her message to end corruption, fraud and violence against Indigenous Peoples, specifically her Lakota People. Spotted Bear had brought to the UN documentation of the 2.64 billion dollars embezzlement in Pine Ridge by the US-organized ‘Oglala Sioux Tribe.’ Spotted Bear also brought documentation of $500 billion dollars embezzled by BIA, the murder of an indigenous whistleblower, and the incarceration of another, Wesley Glen Dick Washoosh, Shoshone Treaty representative. Spotted Bear also called attention to the need for a peaceful resolution to the problems of the US using and accessing land without agreement, specifically, the 18 unratified treaties in California. Spotted Bear documented the BLM’s decision to send out field agents with no background on treaty obligations, evidenced by the elimination of references to treaty obligations from its operations manuals (Jasper Royal Quarterly). This contravenes the US Supreme Court and demonstrates that the BLM is operating as a rogue agency violating US law. Lori Johnston of Yamasi People addressed similar issues of fraud, violence, corruption, and US use and access of lands, winds, and waters without agreement. Johnston did not bring documentation into the UN during the PFII but refered to the Yamasi incarcerated, kidnapped, beaten, raped, tortured, and murdered. Johnston also called attention to the Yamasi HR defender arbitrarily detained and prevented from attending PFII as reprisal for Yamasi working through EMRIP, SRIPR, PFII, and asserting DRIP in southeast North America. Spotted Bear and Johnston were acting as a human rights defenders and asserting the rule of law in the UN HR instrument monitoring meeting, the PFII13, which was May 12-23, 2014. Chair Dorough responded to the joint statement against corruption by referring Spotted Bear and Johnston, asking them to discuss a resolution with the US. On Tuesday May 20 Spotted Bear talked with US representative Linda Lum but she left after a few minutes saying that she had to go. Spotted Bear and Johnston made another joint statement on Thursday May 22 under the topic Future Work (7). Spotted Bear reported that the US would not discuss a resolution to the corruption, fraud, and violence and Chair Dorough again directed the US to discuss with Spotted Bear and Johnston solutions to the issues raised. Spotted Bear and Johnston approached US representative Linda Lum. Lum did speak for a few minutes and asked Spotted Bear to clarify her statements and the relevance of the documents. Spotted Bear explained more details and asked Lum to go to where the documents were and Lum said she could not now but that we might meet the next day and explore this further as she had to go. The time of noon the next day as there was no morning session. On May 23, 2014 Spotted Bear approached Lum just before the final session was to begin at about 3:45pm. A man who did not identify himself told Spotted Bear to go away. Johnston approached Lum. Lum asked if Johnston had gotten her email and then said that they could not talk. They were interrupted by a man who identified himself as Tom Buda and a member of the US delegation. Buda asked if Johnston was with Spotted Bear and then said that he had tried to talk to the Chair and had sent UN security over to Spotted Bear. Johnston offered Buda her card and asked if he was with the US and Buda finally said his name. Meanwhile UN armed security officers indeed were questioning Spotted Bear seated in front of her laptop. UN security advised Spotted Bear not to talk to the US. Tom Buda appears to be a counter-terrorism security specialist employed by the US Mission to secure other Members’ Mission to the UN. His involvement in this reprisal against Indigenous Peoples using a UN HR instrument to end violence indicates that the US is using their appropriation of the Manahattas People’s duty of hospitality to the UN as leverage against Indigenous Peoples. This reprisal implies to other UN Members that if they do not support US violence against Indigenous Peoples, their Missions and delegations to the UN will not be safe from the US. If the US’ predecessers had not exterminated the Manahattas they would be providing security for UN Members. But other Indigenous Peoples of the Americas still exist and we have the right and duty of hospitality to provide security to Members’ Missions to the UN. The US use of force in this situation further prevents other UN Members from talking with Indigenous Peoples in the interest of peace, as it makes clear that other UN Members may be vulnerable to US force also. Tom Buda appears to oversee security for other UN Missions, ensuring the safety of UN Member delegates and their families. This makes it difficult for delegates dependent on this attacker of Indigenous Peoples to assert the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The content of the joint statements made by Spotted Bear and Johnston assert that colonial powers, including the US, do not have jurisdiction over the lands of original nations. Considering the dependent position of other UN Members on the occupying US for security at the UN, it is hard for other UN Members to respond to Indigenous Peoples’ call for multilateral dialogue with colonial powers and Indigenous Peoples to end the violence and assert the rule of law. Instead of sending peace-seeking delegates to discuss ways to end US violent aggression against Indigenous Peoples, the US sent anti-terrorist police to use force against Spotted Bear and Johnston, representing the Lakota and Yamasi, as a reprisal for their attempts to work through the UN human rights mechanisms. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is authorized under the UN Second Decade on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by mandate of the UN General Assembly, of which the US is a Member. The PFII is intended to be a forum to explore ways to more effectively assert the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The US used police force to stop talks that could end violence against Indigenous Peoples. This reprisal against Spotted Bear and Johnston hurts the Lakota and Yamasi Peoples they represent, who used the UN HR instrument of the PFII and the Second Decade on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to find a peaceful resolution to US violence, fraud, and corruption. It hurt Lakota and Yamasi because it discouraged other UN Members from discussing ways to end HR violations against them. This use of police force in the PFII on May 23, 2014 was a direct response to Lakota and Yamasi attempts to use HR mechanism of the PFII and the DRIP. It also hurts the effectiveness of the rule of law and the laws of nations, as it undermines the human rights mechanism of the UN, a new treaty organization. Joann Spotted Bear carried a message to the United Nations on behalf of the Tetuwan Treaty Council of Grandmothers. Spotted Bear made a joint statement to the PFII under the topic Human Rights (4a) on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, about corruption, fraud, and violence perpetrated by colonial powers recommending the PFII promote respect for the rule of law. Spotted Bear also carried documents supporting her message to end corruption, fraud and violence against Indigenous Peoples,... See More
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