From: Debra Conklin [talkingfeather@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:21 PM
To: native-believers@egroups.com
Subject: [Native-Believers] Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [NativeNews] Your resolution to abolish tribal governments]



From: ishgooda@voyager.net
To: "Debra Conklin" <talkingfeather@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [NativeNews] Your resolution to abolish tribal 
governments]
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 13:54:41 -0400

Thank you!
Please send this to as many Christian lists as you are on..
I have heard it said that the majority of people in this country don't feel
oppressed..they feel powerless, while minority groups don't feel powerless,
they are oppressed..
Ish

At 10:44 AM 07/05/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Letter sent to Skagit County and Mr. Fleming.
>
>Mr. Fleming,
>
>   I am ashamed of the recent resolution penned by yourself calling for
the abolishment of tribal sovereignty.

Landmark
>a boundary line indicated by a stone, stake, etc. Deut. 19:14; 27:17;
Prov. 22:28; 23:10. Landmarks could not be removed without incurring the
severe displeasure of God.
>
>Deut. 19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of
old have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land the
Lord they God giveth thee.
>
>This is a moral precept, and still binding. Let every man be content with
his own lot and be just to his neighbors.
>
>Job 24:2, Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks
and feed thereof. Job overcome with sorrow, speculates that many who live in
open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices and we
do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those who do wrong
under pretence of the law and authority, and robbers, those who do wrong by
force. He says, "God layeth not folly to them," that is, He does not at once
send his judgments. We now live under the New Covenant and His Body is
moving. By His grace, we will stand in the gap for First Nations Peoples.
>
>Jeremiah 17:11 But he who gets riches and not by right, at his end shall
be a fool.
>
>I believe the Spirit of the Lord is openly calling from a grassroots
level, housewives and peoples of all measures to actively participate and
demonstrate that you stand with the First Nations Peoples of North America.
We can no longer allow those in government who have been corrupted by
politics and fame to further alienate our brothers and sisters. Let us share our
dignity and honor with the People. Their ancestors sacrificed and gave so
much to us.
>
>Sincerely,
>     Debra Conklin
>     English, Scottish, and Native American Descent