Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Resolution Calling for Action Against the WA State Anti-Indian/Anti-Treaty Initiative 456
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A F F I L I A T E D T R I B E S O F N O R T H W E S T
I N D I A N S
RESOLUTION
(A resolution calling for a united and concerted
effort to defeat Washington State Initiative 456
which seeks to declare that all "legal rights or
privileges of Indians established through treaties"
are extinguished and "were terminated" by the 1924
Indian Citizenship Act.)
RECALLING, that the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians was
founded and organized by Indian Tribes and Nations and individual
Indians for the purpose of protecting and promoting Indian
Rights, and to organize mutual support by and between Indian
peoples to preserve, protect and guarantee the Rights and
Property of Indian people, and
NOTING, the persistent attempts by private U.S. citizens and
organizations to create a negative political climate within U.S.
society against Indian Rights and Treaty Rights, and
BEING REMINDED, that the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
has demonstrated its past commitment to promote and organize
efforts to preserve and protect Indian Rights and Treaty Rights
against political campaigns aimed at undermining the original and
inherent rights of Indian peoples such as the Jack Cunningham
congressional campaign and campaigns of the Inter-State Congress
of Equal Rights and Responsibilities, and
RECOGNIZING, that anti-Indian and anti-treaty political forces in
the State of Washington have succeeded in securing 208,000
signatures from registered voters to place on the November 1984
ballot Initiative 456.
WHEREAS, Initiative 456 is a blatantly anti-Indian political
effort which asks Washington State voters to support the
following question: "Shall Congress be petitioned to
decommercialize steelhead, and state policies respecting Indian
rights and management of natural resources be enacted?", and
WHEREAS, though Initiative 456 is and will likely be found
unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution its success at the
polls will have the effect of poisoning the political climate
throughout the United States, and thus create pressures on the
U.s. Congress to enact legislation to overturn favorable Supreme
Court decisions, and enact legislation aimed at the abrogation of
existing Indian treaties and undermine Indian Rights, and
WHEREAS, the initiative process is being used by anti-Indian
political forces to target Indian rights in Washington State and,
with a success there, launch similar initiatives in as many as 23
other western states from Alaska to the Dakotas, Oklahoma and
Main to force congressional action against Indian nations.
WHEREAS, Indian Nations surrounded by the state of Washington,
private environmental organizations, and private non-Indian
fisheries organizations have joined together in an effort to
defeat Initiative 456 by establishing the "No on Initiative 456"
campaign.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Affiliated Tribes of
Northwest Indians condemns Initiative 456 as a direct threat to
Indian culture and a direct attack on the sacred contracts
between Indians and the United States, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest
Indians calls upon its members to: support the "No on Initiative
456" campaign with financial help within the limits of their
resources; support Indian governments in Washington to organize
an Indian voter registration campaign; support the "No on
Initiative 456" campaign by offering volunteer help to the
campaign organization, and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest
Indians membership shall work with delegations at the Annual
National Congress of American Indians Convention in Spokane to
gain active NCAI support for the "No on Initiative 456" campaign
and direct support from Indian nations across the United States
to defeat Initiative 456.
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