> With regard to the rights of indigenous peoples in the U.S., the Report

> focuses on work being accomplished through the combined efforts of such

> organizations as the Indian Law Resource Center and the Western Shoshone

> Defense Project . "The relationship between the U.S. government and

> Indians," says Tim Coulter, executive director of the Indian Law

> Resource Center, "is an involuntary permanent trusteeship with no

> accountability. The only other parallels are childhood or mental

> incapacity. But the difference is [that] those relationships end with

> age or compliance. Indians can't end their relationship." Steven

> Tullberg, staff attorney at the Center, continues: "[T]rusteeship was

> based on the same ideas as colonization. Therefore, how can they [the

> international bodies] continue to allow the U.S. government to justify

> the same types of domination of Indian peoples in the U.S."

> The Western Shoshone Defense Project is an indigenous grassroots

> organization and affiliate of the Seventh Generation Fund, a non-profit

> organization. The Defense Project located in Crescent Valley, Nevada.

> Through environmental, legal and cultural work and organizing, the

> Defense Project works to affirm Western Shoshone land rights to provide

> for Newe (Western Shoshone) economic, cultural and spiritual needs.

> www.wsdp.org. Contact: Julie Ann Fishel,

> 775-468-0230.

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