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Article: Human Rights Panel Asks U.S. to Return Cattle to Nevada Indians.
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- October 14, 2002
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By Valerie Taliman, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 14--RENO, Nev.--On the eve of a highly controversial auction of Western Shoshone cattle, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights made an urgent appeal on Oct. 3 to the United States government to return the Dann sisters' cattle and to halt any further action until its review of the case was concluded.
The commission, an arm of the Organization of American States that is made of up 35 countries in the Western hemisphere including the U.S., forwarded a copy of its request to the Western Shoshone Defense Project and Indian Law Resource Center whose ...