Human Rights Violations by the U.S. Government Against Native Americans in the Passage and Enforcement of Pub. L. No. 93-531

This piece was originally written as a brief to assist in the court challenge to Pub. L. No. 93-531. The content and form have remained the same, but footnotes have been added. The brief was prepared by the Big Mountain Project at the University of Denver's Human Rights Clinic. This Clinic at the University of Denver selects certain contemporary human rights cases or issues, which are in need of assistance and prepares briefs and memorandum to be used by the attorneys directly involved in the cases. The Human Rights Clinic of 1986 worked on three issues: indigenous rights, patterns of human rights violations in Sri Lanka, and detentions and political repression in Chile. The Big Mountain Project members were: Lucy Hawley, Todd Howland, Ved P. Nanda, Judith Rhedin and Sandra Shwayder. The Project would like to thank Rich Garcia and Barb Cashman for their assistance throughout the duration of the project, and to those individuals and organizations that provided us with current information and resources.