Campaigns Sioux Nation Treaty Council Recommendations of the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council to the United Nations Expert Seminar on Treaties - Nov. 14-17, 2006
Recommendations of the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council to the United Nations Expert Seminar on Treaties - Nov. 14-17, 2006
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Recommendation No. 1:
A process must be established immediately at the United Nations to assist Indigenous nations, particularly those in crisis situations, to have access to the International Court of Justice when such access may diminish the crisis situation.
Recommendation No. 2:
An enforcement agency must be established within the United Nations system to protect and oversee the activation of the provisions of treaties made between Indigenous nations and colonizing governments.
Recommendation No. 3:
The principles of Territorial Integrity must be upheld for Indigenous nations in the same manner as they are upheld for colonizing States.
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"Defenders of the Black Hills is a group of volunteers without racial or tribal boundaries whose mission is to preserve, protect, and restore the environment of the 1851 and 1868 Treaty Territories, Treaties made between the United States and the Great Sioux Nation."
Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John F. Kennedy said,
"Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
July 26, 1963 upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests
