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Letter to President Obama

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March 1, 2010

President Barack Obama
The White House

Dear Mr. President,

I have done public service work for 30 years, working with citizen groups in an effort to protect the interests of private landowners, businesses, and others against powerful corporate interests that use our American Indian people to commercially harvest our nation’s fisheries resources. We have great concerns that local economies and the “quality of life” for many citizens are being negatively impacted by federal Indian policy, and by the workings of modern tribal sovereignty and its support network. When I say “citizens,” I include our Indian friends who question this dysfunctional and abuse-ridden system.

(Loss of Values Fact Sheet below)

Fact Sheet: Loss of values in political parties, media, and the money markets

Urgent work needed to change a corrupted system and to restore the American Dream—for American Indians and non-Indians

The Conflict

Mr. President, we support your State of the Union comments about the declining values in our political parties and media. We also share your frustration in attempting to put common sense to work in dealing with our nation’s wealthiest, greediest, and most lawless citizens. They have corrupted our traditional rules of law, Congress, federal agencies, Wall Street, and too-big-to-fail banks, media, and our broader politics.

‘Fatal Link’ author sees end to fetal alcohol syndrome

Jody Allen Crowe, author of “The Fatal Link” and longtime educator is making the transition from school administration to Executive Director for Healthy Brains for Children, Inc. His vision for Healthy Brains for Children is to “change the world” by delivering the message that “every child has the right to an alcohol-free fetal development,” He says, “If I were to tell you my father died of lung cancer, what is your first question? Did he smoke? It took us over 40 years to come to this conclusion. If I were to ask you why so many kids are in Special Education, on Ritalin, are ADHD, or are committing violent crimes, what is the first question that comes to mind? My goal is that within 10 years, we will be asking: Was the child prenatally exposed to alcohol?
See Public Television interview: America's Greatest Brain Drain

See Public Television Interview: Connection to School Shooters

The Resource Sentinel Calls for Investigations of Illegal Voting Practices in Indian Country

In support of official complaints filed by Todd C. Fast Horse of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota and Christopher Kortlander, Terry A. Coddens, and Deborah Winburn of Big Horn County, Montana, The Resource Sentinel is calling for judiciary action in defense of protections guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, which are being denied to both tribal and non-tribal United States citizens by fraudulent election practices.

(PRWEB) July 22, 2009 -- The complaints filed by both Todd C. Fast Horse and the citizens in Montana cite numerous violations where official poll watchers were deprived of their responsibilities to protect the voters of their fundamental, constitutionally protected rights to participate in the political process on an equal basis, according to the election laws of our republican form of government.

Background on events leading to Resource Sentinel Action.

Native Peoples Deserve More Than an Apology

Native Peoples Deserve More Than an Apology (National press release June 12, 2008)

On Thursday June 12, 2008 Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper presented Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine with a statement of apology expressing regret for the forced placement of 150,000 aboriginal children into residential church schools from the 1870’s to the 1970’s.

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