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Article: Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Steven Newcomb column.
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- July 21, 2004
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By Steven Newcomb, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 21--BUSH LETS FREEDOM REIGN: On July 7, Bush signed into law H.R. 884, "The Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act." By doing so, he clearly demonstrated the "freedom of imperial power," despite the fact that the Western Shoshone National Council and a majority of Western Shoshone IRA governments (six out of nine) opposed the bill.
Bush used his pen as a "scepter of imperial freedom" to violate the fundamental, ancestral, and treaty rights of the Western Shoshone Nation. "Imperial freedom" refers to the American empire's claim of "freedom" to do ...