NEW YORK STATE VIOLATES 200 Year old treaty
The State of NEW YORK in gross violation of the 1794 Treaty of Canadaigua
sent several hundred police officers to force the SENECA TRIBE to charge
sales tax on items sold among them gasoline. They have disrupted several
peaceful demonstrations and are now blocking access to the reservation lands
by state police force...Violence has erpted between police nad protesters.
It looks like a scene from an old "Billy Jack" movie...
Please contact Gov. Pataki or the New State senator and representatives
to stop this gross violation of one of the longest holding treaties in the
USA with an Indian tribe. The section violated is quoted below...
Quote: ARTICLE 2. The United States acknowledge the lands reserved to
the Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga Nations in their respective treaties
with the State of New York, and called their reservations, to be their
property; and the United States will never claim the same, nor disturb
them, or either of the Six Nations, nor their Indian friends, residing
thereon, and united with them in the free use and enjoyment thereof; but
the said reservations shall remain theirs, until they choose to sell the
same to the people of the United States, who have the right to
purchase.
Lili Pintea-Reed(great-grandaughter of Eliza of the Seneca nation)
Joseph Reed (grandson of Ned Waters of the Seneca Nation)