Press release:
EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS SIGNS MOU
WITH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE(RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA), Jan. 17, 2017 – A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA). The MOU was signed Friday by FSA State Executive Director (SED) Bobby R. Etheridge and Principal Chief Patrick Lambert.
The USDA Cooperator Memorandum of Understanding was issued by the Farm Service Agency (FSA). It establishes that the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) has been certified by FSA to be working in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture by providing technical and financial assistance to a USDA program that concerns an agricultural operation, agricultural land, farming practice, or conservation practice. This is only the third such an agreement signed between the USDA and a federally recognized tribe.
Chief Lambert stated that he was excited about this new partnership and looks forward to working with the USDA. He went on to say, “As we seek to develop our tribes Department of Agriculture, partnerships like this are necessary to be successful. We are working on some large scale projects that will continue to build our infrastructure and this is just the start.”
The USDA recognizes the that in order to continue to provide effective and efficient programing for all farmers, produces and ranchers, then partnerships that enhance information sharing are imperative,” said SED Etheridge.
The USDA FSA increasingly seeks the assistance of stakeholders like the EBCI to provide technical and financial assistance concerning the FSA Outreach and Education Programs. The EBCI seeks to encourage member participation in FSA programs. The programs include, but not limited to: Farm Loan Programs, Farm Storage Facility Loan Program, Disaster Assistance Programs, Crop Acreage Data, Livestock Forage Program, Livestock Indemnity Program, Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish, Conservation Programs, Commodity Loan Programs, and Price Support Programs.
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is the only federally recognized tribe in North Carolina and only one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes in the United States. The Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation, officially known as the Qualla Boundary, located in western North Carolina, just south of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
This is an astonishing piece of a deplorable lack of journalist curiosity regarding U.S./State citizens with “Indian ancestry/race” since The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924! That single Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, made moot all previous common law-state and federal-including Presidential Executive Orders, Commerce Clause and Treaty Clause alleged Indian Treaties (if any U.S. Senate confirmed Indian treaties actually existed pre-1924 Citizenship) regarding U.S./State citizens with “Indian ancestry/race” so often touted by politicians and Indian advocates as being legitimate law.
And yet, MSM continue to perpetuate willful blindness to the Constitutional absurdity that Congress, Presidents/Governors, Initiatives and Referendums can make distinguishable the metes and boundaries of a select group of U.S./State citizens with “Indian ancestry/race” post citizenship.
The Constitution makes for no provisions for:
1. Indian sovereign nations. None of the asserted tribes possess any of the attributes of being a ‘sovereign nation:’ a. No Constitution recognition b. No international recognition c. No fixed borders d. No military e. No currency f. No postal system g. No passport
2. Treaties with its own constituency
3. Indian reservations whereby a select group of U.S./State citizens with “Indian ancestry/race” reside exclusively and to the exclusion of all others, on land-with rare exception-that is owned by the People of the United States according to federal documents readily available on-line that notes rights of ‘occupancy and use’ by these distinguished U.S./State citizens with “Indian ancestry/race” only with the land owned by the People of the United States.
4. Recognition of ‘Indian citizenship’ asserted by various tribes. There is no international recognition of “Indian citizenship” as there is no ‘nation’ from which citizenship is derived.
A simple question for politicians and MSM to answer…a question so simple, it is hard:
“Where is the proclamation ratified by 1/3rd of the voters of the United States that amends the Constitution to make the health, welfare, safety and benefits of a select group of U.S./State citizens distinguishable because of their “Indian ancestry/race?”