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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:47:44 EDT

The US. Senate Indian Affairs Committee has agreed to review information
concerning Native American issues for possible senate hearings. For the past
year United Native America members have been working to bring this about, we
first tried congress members, they would not accept all issues we felt should
be reviewed.

Below is U. N. A. letter to the Indian Affairs Committee, We welcome all
groups and individuals that would like to contribute factual information on
issues listed below. Please feel free to contact us anytime, all information
should be sent to:

Janet Erickson
Committee on Indian Affairs
United States Senate
838 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-2251
Fax: Att: to Janet Erickson 202-228-2589
Email:


United Native America
04-18-02
Call For Senate Hearing
Letter to:
Janet Erickson
Indian Affairs Committee
Washington, DC.

I want to thank you for accepting our request to send you information on
Native American issues that we strongly feel should be addressed by the
Indian Affairs committee. Below is our petition calling for a national
holiday for Native Americans, we have incorporated other issues into the
petition that are of great concern to the Native American community as to
obvious racial exclusion of Native Americans and misuse of our heritage.

At this time 04-18-02 over 22,000 people have signed United Native America on
line petition, nation wide we have over 100,000 signed petitions calling on
the federal government to address these issues by calling for senate
hearings.

We are aware that the senate has in the past addressed a wide range of social
issues concerning other ethnic groups. We expect no less in the handling of
the Native American community issues before this governing body.

United Native America requests after reviewing all information sent to the
senate Indian Affairs Committee that this governing body would call for
senate hearings to address these issues by calling in top industry executives
to include federal, state, local and appointed officials, tribal nations
representatives should be included in this group.

The scope of these hearings should cover but not limited to, all television
networks (Total lack of Native American presence in their programs) Movie
industry (again total lack of Native American presence) National sports
Industry (Non recruiting of Native Americans as players and misuse of Native
American heritage).

National media industry failure to report on Native American community
issues, heritage events to include (American Indian Heritage Month of
November) As they do for all other ethnic groups. National music Industry
failure to incorporate Native Americans as to their musical heritage and
performing groups, all other ethnic groups are well represented in this
Industry nationally to the public.

National Advertising companies failure to incorporate Native Americans
appearing in their commercials promoting their products, this is visually
present from day to day. Native Americans incarcerated by, federal, state,
county, city and juvenile detentions are subject to racial attacks, slurs and
inhuman treatment by staff members. They are deprived of practicing their
religion by law, prolonged solitary confinement and segregation from Native
American group activities within the system.

County school systems that allow racial harassment of Native American
students by staff and faculty, racially biased punishment, racially forced
out of schools and incarcerated over trivial infractions of school rules.
This is a sad but true fact concerning Native American students in our
country.

United Native America asks that the Indian Affairs committee conduct their
own investigation into issues stated above. Each of these issues address the
health, education and poverty of Native Americans. It is obvious to the
Native American community and others that they are being racially excluded
and disenfranchised as a race, It's time for our federal government to deal
with these issues in a respectful manner and to state their recommendations
and orders as to resolving these issues.


Mike L. Graham
Founder United Native America
<A HREF="http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/">www.United Native America.com
</A>
http://www.unitednativeamerica.com
918-427-9894
Email:

<A HREF="http://www.petitiononline.com/indian/petition.html">NATIONAL HOLIDAY
FOR NATIVE AMERICANS Petition</A>
http://www.petitiononline.com/indian/petition.html


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