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[mary tharakan]

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Been down in Pennsylvania.  We filed largest land claim ever.  Media is all hush about it, although they were there for initial filing.

http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=FD7DAB81A1D4CE02CF9D4BE28F5E6FC6?diaryId=10527


Pandora's Box Opened - NJ Sand Hill Band of Indians files Lawsuit in Newark 
by: carolh
Tue Feb 17, 2009 at 04:53:46 PM EST 
 
The suit by the NJ Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians filed today, named defendants including Governor Corzine, Secretary of State Nina Wells, and the NJ Commission on American Indian Affairs. 
Chief Ron Yonaguska Holloway answered questions for NBC news, NJN news, and the Star Ledger reporters at 50 Walnut Street in Newark about how the situation resulted in a lawsuit.  Chief Yonaguska Holloway explained the treaty laws involved that had been violated and reiterated that the Governor had refused to even meet with the tribes, despite repeated requests over several years. 
Also present today were Principal Chief Darius Two Bears Ross of the Ani Tsalagi Onaselagi, Principal Chief Carroll Medicine Crow Holloway of the New Jersey Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians as well as several other Native Americans. This was a very serious occasion for the Chiefs to be present. 
It is unfortunate that the stubborn-ness of the Governor and the Secretary of State to resolve this issue peacefully over the past 2 years has resulted in this lawsuit.  Both the Ani Tsalagi and Sand Hill Band had made repeated requests to be included in the Commission on Indian Affairs or even in the report on Native Americans that the Governor KNEW was false, since it left out mention of the Sand Hill Band and the Ani Tsalagi.   
And so we are here.  Our NJ Governor is being sued for knowingly violating the civil rights of our indegenous peoples by ignoring their rights altogether.  And it may cost us all quite a bit of money.  The amount listed in the suit which is actually LESS than the current value of the property and water rights taken is roughly $1 trillion.  Yes. Trillion with a T.   
As an elected official I try my best to uphold the laws of NJ and stay out of lawsuits by bargaining in good faith.  By completely ignoring the rights of the two tribes in question - for whatever reason, our Governor and appointed officials in NJ on the NJ Commission on American Indian have let us down by not even bothering to address this issue till it got to this point. 
The following is the exact text of the suit that was filed today.  There is a lot of legal text here, but the gist is that the Governor and Secretary of State as well as the NJ Commission on American Indian Affairs basically knowingly conspired to eliminate the existence of the oldest indigenous tribe in the state of NJ and in so doing violated nearly every treaty with the Sand Hill Band ever signed.  


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