The thrust of continental policy is now, as it has been
historically, the steady expropriation of Indian land and water resources for
the benefit of whites in the United States. The practice has been to locate the
Indians on the most arid and least productive land. In Canada, Native treaty
rights are continually being eroded.
BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1970 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist
Association urges support of the independent, indigenous organizations:
In opposing the continued exploitation of the Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts;
In demanding an end to the continued encroachment by ranching, mining,
lumbering, and hydro-electric interests upon their human rights, ancestral
homelands, and water resources; and
In insisting upon adequate reparations for past and present injustices
perpetrated upon them.
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