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Article: DEFENDING SOVEREIGNTY; INDIAN TRIBES GATHER AT SU TO DISCUSS PERCEIVED THREATS.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2005
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Byline: Glenn Coin Staff writer
Leaders of American Indian tribes in New York and Ontario gathered Saturday in Syracuse to discuss the threats to their sovereignty and ways of life.
The tribes, known collectively as the Haudenosaunee, talked of threats from government policies to their health, environment and ability to govern themselves in the "Haudenosaunee Under Siege" conference at the Syracuse University School of Law.
"Those threats to the Haudenosaunee people are coming with ever greater intensity," said Robert Odawi Porter, moderator of the conference and director of the law school's Center for Indigenous Law, Governance and ...