FURTHERMORE, the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs should Amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, to include such language that will distort the Theory and Philosophy of the New Age Organizations and or Groups, and that such language will advocate a legal endorsement of the Sovereign Nations Tradition and Traditional Belief, so that Indian Cemeteries and or Burial Sites will not become a Public mockery or a tool to be used for personal and or monetary gain. FURTHERMORE, the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs should Amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, to include such language to where full priority shall be established for the Sovereign Nations of the Native American Indian to fully identify, manage and own, Indian Cemeteries, Burial Sites and those Funerary Objects of Sacred identity and all other such Artifacts, discovered inadvertently or otherwise on Federal Lands, managed by those Federal Agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service and the National Parks Service. FURTHERMORE, the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs must Act in Good Faith, in order to secure a realm of long over due Justice, necessary for the Preservation and Protection of Indian Cemeteries and or Burials, with the understanding that our Ancestor's are not the Anthropologist or Archaeologist Prehistoric People, but are Grandfather's, Grandmother's, Aunts and Uncles, relatives of Contemporary Native American Indians, that should be left where they have been laid to rest with Traditional Respect. THEREFORE LET IT BE STATED CLEARLY, that the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs should in a manner of respect install such legal factor's relevant to the Preservation and Protection of ALL NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN CEMETERIES and or BURIAL SITES, within the text of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, so as to where those Sovereign Nations of the Native American Indian will know that the United States Government is upholding it's TRUST OBLIGATION, TREATY OBLIGATION, in a GOVERŇMENT to GOVERNMENT manner as so declared under Article VI of the United States Constitution. AND LET IT BE FINALLY STATED, that the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs does endorse the Tradition and Traditional Belief of those Sovereign Nations of the Native American Indian, so that a Legal Manner can be established within the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 for the Preservation and Protection of ALL INDIAN CEMETERIES and or BURIAL SITES. Submitted by: Paula J. Brady, Western Shoshone Historic Preservation Society Larry Kiloby Larry Kibby, Program Director Western Shoshone Historic Preservation Society Page Four |