Sentences with phrase «american land claim»

The original suit in this matter was the first modern - day Native American land claim litigated in the federal court system rather than before the Indian Claims Commission.

State and federal courts and mediators are dealing with hundreds of Native American land claims, and indigenous tribes in the U.S. and Canada have filed suits demanding reparations for various crimes, such as the abuse of students in parochial and government - run schools.

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Hey, if the US gave back all of its lands to the original Americans, I'd have no problem claiming my residence in the Cherokee Nation.

Think about how silly that claim really is, all the native Americans decide to become Hindu and then take over a large part of India, what would we look like supporting them even if they produce a book that says their God Vishnu give them that land?

«There is a distinct difference between claiming that the genocide of the Native Americans was religiously - based and suggesting that the theft of their lands and their being forced onto reservations was accomplished by people who happened to be Christians.»

The same October issue further devoted five pages to a review - essay («Catholic America») in which we learn that the Virgin Mary has claimed America «for herself,» and that American Catholics thus «sojourn in a land marked out for us, that we are instructed to possess.»

Thus who can claim to truly own the right to be an American and deny others from comming from oppression in other lands.

Since Native Americans are not seeking to eject those who have taken their land or those who have come subsequently to occupy it, some positive response to their claims should certainly be possible without significantly harming any other group.

Stories of recent martyrs could easily be multiplied: monks were murdered in Algeria in 1998; an American nun was shot defending peasants» claim to land in Brazil in 2005; Baptist missionaries from the U.S. were shot in northern Iraq last year, and so on.

If the US accepts and supports Israel's claims and reasoning, how about they return the land they stole from the native Americans?

If it fails, the American Meat Institute (AMI) claims that an extra 1.5 million cattle would need to be slaughtered to meet demand for ground beef without the feared «slime» — also putting an end to the far more sustainable practice of using every part of the animal, at a time when we are trying to produce more food from less land.

A longstanding hypothesis claimed that the first migration took place 12,600 years ago through an ice - free corridor between retreating North American glaciers, via the ice - age Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska.

Her arrival at Standing Rock is welcomed with open hostility by a US Army officer (Sam Rockwell), who has stationed troops around the Lakota reservation to undermine Native American claims to the land.

The film follows former war hero and convict Snake Plissken, who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a no - man's land / maximum security prison to bring back the American President after he's shot down over the island and captured by the violent gangs who now lay claim to the island.

The billionaires also prove insatiable, forever competing to carve up and cannabalise land into ever smaller parcels, at residents» expense — an American tradition inaugurated by the first settlers, who claimed to own land already lived in.

After directing Birdman, last year's Best Picture winner, Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu returns with a survival tale set against the backdrop of American colonialism as settlers try to claim the land an...

is a somewhat - manic dramedy about a pig farmer whose land is seemingly «saved» by a loud, ignorant American who claims his ancestors used to own it.

Opponents of TNR programs are largely wildlife supporters who claim that cats alone are responsible for killing up to 85 percent of all of North American land birds each year.

Native American Occupation While Alcatraz stood empty and the federal government debated its fate, a boatload of 89 Native Americans claimed the island as «Indian land.»

While no exhibition can claim to definitively address all aspects of the American experience, This Land offers diverse vignettes of life in the United States.

«Although proponents of expanded Grand Canyon mining cite American energy independence, a significant percentage of these mining claims and pending operations are controlled by foreign interests, which pay no royalties for the mineral wealth they extract from U.S. public lands.

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Since 2013, she has participated in the Florida Land Title Association Claims Roundtable; she is also a member of the American Land Title Association's Claims Counsel Committee.

Notable mandates: principal negotiator and senior legal counsel to the Algonquins of Ontario in ongoing treaty negotiations in a land claim that covers most of eastern Ontario, including the nation's capital, and in which more than 1.2 million people reside; representing USW Local 2251, the largest local union at Essar Steel Algoma Inc., in the Algoma CCAA restructuring; two significant insurance coverage appellate victories, Urbanmine Inc. et al v. St Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company et al and Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company of Canada v. Intact Insurance Company; acting for North American Fur Auctions, successor to the original Hudson's Bay fur trading business, in connection with the amendment, restatement and re-syndication of a credit facility to include Export Development Canada; acted for La Caisse Centrale Desjardins du Québec with respect to credit facilities to finance the construction of a highrise condominium complex containing an affordable housing component

This agreement, which was enacted in its current form as part of the Smart Border Declaration: Building a Smart Border for the 21st Century on the Foundation of a North American Zone of Confidence [Ottawa, December 12, 2001](Smart Border) and came into force in December 29, 2004, deems (subject to limited exceptions) a foreign national who attempts to enter Canada at a land border from a «designated country» ineligible to make a refugee claim.

Known as the «Land of Enchantment», New Mexico came into the country as part of the hotly - contested New Spain area that was eventually claimed by Texas, Mexico and France before finally being ceded to the United States after the Mexican - American War.

Add to those revelations statistics compiled by the American Society for Public Preservation which claim that Arkansas has more litter and debris on its roads, highways, and byways than any other state in the nation, and it's clear that protecting yourself and others with adequate Arkansas auto insurance is a no brainer in The Land of Opportunity.

Two Austin investors have filed a lawsuit claiming the North American Title Company helped to orchestrate a land investment scam, overseen by members of an East Coast Russian mob, according to YNN Austin News.