Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Resolution Urging tribes to support passage of HR 6118, Water Pollution Cancer Research
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DOCUMENT: ATNI8411.TXT
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 #84-F-011
WHEREAS, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)
is a regional organization comprised of American
Indians from the States of Oregon, Idaho,
Washington, and Nevada; and
WHEREAS, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
recognizes the needs and concerns of the member
Tribes and the serious impact upon Native American
Indians when specific issues are collectively
addressed by Local, Regional, and National Indian
governments and their organizations; and
WHEREAS, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians is
dedicated to the ideals of improvement of health,
education, social welfare, and economic development
of American Indians: and
WHEREAS, Congressman Dennis Hertel and others on August 9,
1984 introduced HR-6118 to require that a
comprehensive study be prepared regarding the
present status of lower animals (primarily edible
fish) cancer research at the State and Federal
levels, and the means for improving and
coordinating that research: and
WHEREAS, the Clean Water Act was past 12 years ago, the Sub-
committee on Fisheries, Wildlife Conservation, and
the environment through hearings identified that
fish, and other lower animals were exhibiting
epidemic rates of cancer; and
WHEREAS, lower animals normal do exhibit cancer rates of
less than 1%, but in major river and lakes through
out the nation are now observing cancer rates of
100 in fish 2 years old or older; and
WHEREAS, Bird and mammals in the food chain eating these
chemical contaminated fish have developed cancers
and defects in cormorants of the Great Lakes and
display birth defects 50 times higher than
comparable birds not eating fish taken from
uncontaminated waters; and
WHEREAS, Canadian Fisheries Studies of Coho Salmon done by
Ron Sonstegard, Canada's McMaster University,
identified that contaminated fish are heavily
afflicted with liver, thyroid, and reproductive
defects, and cancers. Sterility, lack of sexual
development, undersized adult were exhibited in
nearly 100% of Sonstegard's sampling and 75% of the
salmon embryo died; and
WHEREAS, the Nation waters are heavily contaminated with
many of the 30,000 known cancer causing chemicals
that the Puget Sound and other waters of the
Northwest have been identified as having 360 of the
most toxic chemicals causing cancers and other
medical defects (congressional records, August 10
E3550 - E3553); and
WHEREAS, Sonstegard has identified through scientific
analysis and calculations that a person eating one
pound of the Coho salmon is equivalent to drinking
400,000 gallons of contaminated water containing
such chemical carcinogens as DDT, PCB, dioxins,
industrial wastes, herbicides, pesticides that have
been introduced into the water by pollution; and
WHEREAS, the American Indians of the Northwest and elsewhere
in the United States still maintain a diet that
consume large quantities of salmon and the Tribes
demand that the regulating Federal and State
agencies recognize the importance of the Clean
Water Act and the violations of Indian Treaties,
Statutory laws and regulations that guarantees the
quantity and quality of water; and
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Affiliated Tribes of
Northwest Indians alert and request the member
Tribes of the National Congress of American Indians
and other organization to the need for support for
the urgent passage of HR 6118, Water Pollution
Cancer Research legislation; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Affiliated Tribes of
Northwest Indians request Congressman Dennis Hertel
of Michigan and the Congressional leaders to add
language that authorizes and funds Research for the
protection of the Indian Nations waters.
CERTIFICATION
The foregoing resolution was duly endorsed at the Annual
Conference of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, at
Spokane, Washington, on September 8, 1984, with a quorum
present and voting.
__________________________ ____________________________
Delbert Frank, President Faith Mayhew, Secretary
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