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Website info to follow at end. In the second excerpt, Laura Kellogg, who testified at the 1929 US Congressional Hearings (as mentioned in article 93.) is credited with starting the well-meaning Six Nations Movement, and then, what happened to it. In the third excerpt, it explains how Brothertown asked for US citizenship and individual ownership of land. And this caused many indians to lose their lands to foreclosures because they were unable to pay the property taxes and their land were sold at tax auctions. This is commonly referred to as "checkerboarding". Meaning there are lands that belong to Indians and then lands belong to non-indians, all mixed together. Let's think about the monetary land settlements with extinguishment agreements, currently being pushed upon Indigenous Nations. First excerpt, from "Brothertown timeline" page 49: "1995 the Brothertown Indians Nation Mission Statement (several years ago, I texted this Mission Statement to several of ...

Contact information on "Collaborative Social Change" (CSC) to follow after their definition of international lawyer: "International lawyers are guided by agreements and treaties between countries. They usually practice private or public international law and/or under the auspices of regional legal frameworks. To become an international lawyer, the first step is to complete a law degree and then pass a bar exam to register as an attorney in at least one country. This can be the country in which the person is a national or another country where they are allowed to register. For example, if I'm a Canadian citizen who completed my law degree in the UK, then I can complete the domestic process to register in the UK as a practicing lawyer. So this background is required for any so-called 'international lawyer'. Then, from there, what makes a lawyer "international' is that their work is affected by more than one jurisdiction, which can include international...

These two examples show that justice is waiting for the indigenous people, at the international level. These court cases won at the international level, still have major, far-reaching affects to this day, on the lives of the indigenous people. These two brief summaries prove that indigenous court cases can not be won in the United States or Canadian courts. The first example is when the United Kingdom brought the United States into Peculinary Arbitration at the international level, on behalf of the Cayuga Indians. This was in the 1920's. The United Kingdom was successful on the international level, which started the Cayuga Nation on their journey towards land recognition in the United States. Why didn't the United Kingdom go into the United States courts to do this? Because the United Kingdom knew it did not belong there and neither did the Cayuga Nation. And the U.K. knew it could never be successful in the american courts. And the U. K. understands that as a sovereign nation,...