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Indigenous Law Institute. Sovereign Union serves the Crown with formal objection to the Act of Recognition. Aboriginal Sovereign Union diplomat Graham Merritt, speaking today from Parliament House Canberra said: "Today is an historic moment, when on behalf of the Sovereign Union I am serving the Crown via the Governor General Quentin Bryce and the Commonwealth Government of Australia with our formal objection to the Act of Recognition. "This Act of Recognition is a sleight of hand, as the Crown and Government continue to bypass proper recognition of our continuing Sovereignty.

The Commonwealth Government is using the reform process to attempt to bring Sovereign Aboriginal Nations and Peoples into the Constitution of a foreign illegal occupying force. " "Now that the Crown and Commonwealth Government have the Sovereign Union’s written objections they cannot claim ignorance of the significance of our Sovereign position, nor do they have the free, prior and informed consent of Aboriginal Nations and Peoples to usurp our sovereignty. " 13 February 2013 Dear Governor-General, Sincerely 1 Attachment: Name:

Harper Launches Major First Nations Termination Plan: As Negotiating Tables Legitimize Canada’s Colonialism. The following editorial was originally featured in the First Nations Strategic Bulletin (FNSB), June-October 2012. You can view/download this latest edition of the FNSB by clicking the following link: FNSB June-October 2012 On September 4th the Harper government clearly signaled its intention to: 1) Focus all its efforts to assimilate First Nations into the existing federal and provincial orders of government of Canada; 2) Terminate the constitutionally protected and internationally recognized Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights of First Nations. Termination in this context means the ending of First Nations pre-existing sovereign status through federal coercion of First Nations into Land Claims and Self-Government Final Agreements that convert First Nations into municipalities, their reserves into fee simple lands and extinguishment of their Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights.

To do this the Harper government announced three new policy measures: Then there are the Senate Public Bills: Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans. Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans Treaty With the Delawares Chickasaw Peace Treaty Feeler Treaty With the Six Nations Treaty With the Wyandot, etc.

Treaty With The Cherokee Treaty With the Chocktaw Treaty With the Chickasaw Treaty With the Shawnee Treaty With the Wyandot, etc. Treaty With the Six Nations Treaty With the Creeks Treaty With the Cherokee Treaty With the Cherokee Treaty With the Six Nations Treaty With the Oneida, etc. Treaty of Greenville Chickasaw Treaty Treaty With the Chickasaw "Secret" Journal on Negotiations of the Chickasaw Treaty of 1818 Treaty With the Chickasaw : 1818 Refusal of the Chickasaws and Choctaws to Cede Their Lands in Mississippi : 1826 Treaty With The Potawatami, 1828. Treaty With the Chickasaw : 1830, Unratified Treaty With the Potawatami, 1832.

Treaty with the Apache, July 1, 1852. A collection of all the treaties of peace, alliance, and commerce, between ... - Great Britain, Charles Jenkinson Liverpool (Earl of) Untitled. DONATIONS for Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. United Nations of Turtle Island. The Sovereign Squamish Nation Government (SSNG) Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Sac And Fox Nation. Argument of David Allen Miley Chief Justice Rehnquist: We'll hear argument now in No. 92-259, the Oklahoma Tax Commission v. the Sac and Fox Nation.

Mr. Miley. Mr. Miley: Thank you, Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: This case involves whether the State of Oklahoma may tax the income of a tribal member who is employed by the tribe, the Sac and Fox Nation, and whether Oklahoma may impose motor vehicle taxes on automobiles owned by tribal members of the Sac and Fox Nation. The Sac and Fox Nation imposes its own income and motor vehicle taxes, as the State does. The lower courts have enjoined the...

There is no Federal law which preempts State law in this area, and the State law-- Unknown Speaker: But this involves State taxation of tribal members. Mr. Unknown Speaker: Who are living where? Mr. Unknown Speaker: And the... but it involves both... all of those members. Mr. And those tribal members, some live off the Indian country and some live on Indian country. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.