Obama Steps in for Tribes based on Treaty Rights

In a Recent Statement by President Obama regarding an Order to protect tribal resources and rights regarding the DAPL. We now need to reach out to POTUS, regarding the Direct violation of our tribal religious rights violation by WDFW. WDFW needs to be held accountable for their blatant discrimination in their recent refusal to acknowledge our religious rights guaranteed us under Treaty’s with the U.S. Government. This Blatant disregard for Native American Religious rights needs to stop, before States are allowed to continue down this plan to exterminate all of our Sacred Wildlife!!

Treaty Rights are Guaranteed us under Federal Laws, which the states can not disregard. What does that tell us? In our opinion, it tells us that the religious rights guaranteed us under federal law carries more legal weight than that of individual states. The Native American peoples religious views, sacred practices are not any less important than anyone elses, but to watch a Washington State Attorney General tell us our religious rights do not matter is BLATANT religious discrimination.

Further I would like to Point out Earlier this year, President Obama decreed that the NEPA process should account for the costs of greenhouse gas emissions—a potential opening for federal agencies to obstruct a huge fossil-fuel infrastructure project like Dakota Access.  Greenhouse Gas emissions also includes Livestock 😉

• Agriculture (9 percent of 2014 greenhouse gas emissions) – Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture come from livestock such as cows, agricultural soils, and rice production. Which may help us in our Quest to eliminate Grazing rights 😉

In 1978, in an effort to clarify the status of traditional religious practices and practitioners, Congress passed a joint resolution entitled “The American Indian Religious Freedom Act” which declared that it was the policy of Congress to protect and preserve the inherent right of American Indians to believe, express, and practice their traditional religions. which under this Act, fall our “Sacred Wildlife”

The problems that arise in the western thinking thinking of today are their failure of understanding what our religious beliefs consider sacred, which in fact includes our sacred animals, which then results in this great gulf,  that exists between traditional western thinking when it is about their own religion, compared to that of the Indian perspective. It is here where the difference between individual conscience and commitment (western) and communal tradition (Indian) differ, traditional western thinking for example recognizes the bible, and flag and these views can only be reconciled by examining them in a much broader historical and geographical context. Which is where our Native American Religious beliefs enter this realm of understanding at a much different level. Native Americans are connected to all living things, which include the Earth, the water the sky, as well as all of the Creators creatures both large and small.

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Public Law No. 95-341, 92 Stat. 469 (Aug. 11, 1978) (commonly abbreviated to AIRFA), codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1996, is a United States federal law, enacted byjoint resolution of the Congress in 1978. Native American Religions were up to this point prohibited by law.^[1]

It was enacted to return basic civil liberties, and to protect and preserve the traditional religious rights and cultural practices of American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Native Hawaiians.^[2] These rights include, but are not limited to, access to sacred sites, freedom to worship through ceremonial and traditional rights, and use and possession of objects considered sacred. Wolves, Grizzlies, Bison, Eagles are all considered Sacred to us as a People.

The Act required policies of all governmental agencies to eliminate interference with the free exercise of Native American religion, based on the First Amendment, and to accommodate access to and use of religious sites to the extent that the use is practicable and is not inconsistent with an agency’s essential functions.^[3] It also acknowledges the prior violation of that right.^[4]

President Jimmy Carter said, in a statement about the AIRFA:

In the past, Government agencies and departments have on occasion denied Native Americans access to particular sites and interfered with religious practices and customs where such use conflicted with Federal regulations. In many instances, the Federal officials responsible for the enforcement of these regulations were unaware of the nature of traditional native religious practices and, consequently, of the degree to which their agencies interfered with such practices.

This legislation seeks to remedy this situation.^[10]

We now make reference to The Indian Trust Responsibility which has been done by someone considered the Authority on this aspect of our religious discrimination claim against All Native Americans.

Now that I have bored you all to tears…. here are our plans for Monday Morning

Native Americans have faced the worst sort of Religious Discrimination

Protect The Wolves® will be reaching out Monday Morning to:

Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination

In order to coordinate cases involving religion-based discrimination among the various sections of the Civil Rights Division, and to oversee outreach efforts to religious communities, the Justice Department has created the position of Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination. If you are unsure which section of the Civil Rights Division to contact, or if you have any problems reaching one of the sections listed above, you may call the Special Counsel’s office at (202) 353-8622 (voice) or (202) 514-0716 (TDD), or write to: Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination, Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room 5531, Washington, D.C. 20530. Further information about the Civil Rights Division’s initiatives to fight religious discrimination is available at www.usdoj.gov/crt/religiousdiscrimination/religdisc.php.

Personally I found it particularly interesting that the administration’s statement called out the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This law requires federal agencies to account for environmental risks and hazards when they approve a project, as it also requires Government Agencies such as USFWS, as well as USDAFWS to conduct a NEPA EIS statement as well as investigate “all” available alternative solutions prior to issuing a lethal removal action. It is our belief that those laws should carry over directly to all forms of government, especially when Species are considered “Endangered” by individual states.

After WDFW’s recent Slaughter from the sky involving the Profanity Peak Pack , we need to ask the President to step in and make those laws the same for all branches of Government in light of State Governments inability to manage wildlife species without killing Endangered Species.

The Obama administration also announced that it will invite tribes to formal consultations this fall about whether any federal rules around national infrastructure projects like the Dakota Access pipeline should be reformed in order to protect tribal resources and rights. It will also consider whether new laws should be proposed to Congress.