Burns Paiute Tribe to the feds: stop allowing Bundy free passage

[OregonBlue]

BURNS — The Burns Paiute Tribe has added its name to the chorus of voices growing impatient with the federal government's low-profile response to the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

In a letter dated Friday to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the tribe demanded that law enforcement officials stop allowing Arizona businessman Ammon Bundy and his gang of protesters free passage to and from the federal bird sanctuary.

The tribe also told the government that it is obligated under its treaty with the Northern Paiutes to inflict punishment for "any crime or injury...perpetrated by any white man upon the Indians."

"The land on which the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is located is in the heart of our tribe's ancestral territory," wrote Charlotte Roderique, chair of the tribe. "This is sacred place to the Burns Paiute Tribe. The refuge and the refuge buildings hold invaluable, irreplaceable and endangered aspects of the tribe's cultural heritage."

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/burns_paiute_tribe_to_the_feds.html#incart_river_index

[Bluenorthwest]

1. They are most exactingly correct about this treaty and the government needs to uphold the agreement

for once.

[randys1]

2. This reminds me of my desire to see Hollywood do a big budget picture

starring someone like Leo DiCaprio about "Wounded Knee" and at the end of the movie inform people that this was routine behavour by the white settlers and their army.

Oh, by the way, righty is trying to rewrite that history so our children are not taught about it.

Actual text books NOT teaching it, actually.

[geek tragedy]

3. They're not armed and white, so the FBI will ignore them nt