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Box 2574 Fido Net 1:352/333 :: :: Olympia, WA 360-786-9629 :: :: 98507-2574 USA The Quarto Mundista BBS :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: DOCUMENT: ATNI8411.TXT A F F I L I A T E D T R I B E S O F N O R T H W E S T I N D I A N S RESOLUTION #84-F-011 WHEREAS, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) is a regional organization comprised of American Indians from the States of Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Nevada; and WHEREAS, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians recognizes the needs and concerns of the member Tribes and the serious impact upon Native American Indians when specific issues are collectively addressed by Local, Regional, and National Indian governments and their organizations; and WHEREAS, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians is dedicated to the ideals of improvement of health, education, social welfare, and economic development of American Indians: and WHEREAS, Congressman Dennis Hertel and others on August 9, 1984 introduced HR-6118 to require that a comprehensive study be prepared regarding the present status of lower animals (primarily edible fish) cancer research at the State and Federal levels, and the means for improving and coordinating that research: and WHEREAS, the Clean Water Act was past 12 years ago, the Sub- committee on Fisheries, Wildlife Conservation, and the environment through hearings identified that fish, and other lower animals were exhibiting epidemic rates of cancer; and WHEREAS, lower animals normal do exhibit cancer rates of less than 1%, but in major river and lakes through out the nation are now observing cancer rates of 100 in fish 2 years old or older; and WHEREAS, Bird and mammals in the food chain eating these chemical contaminated fish have developed cancers and defects in cormorants of the Great Lakes and display birth defects 50 times higher than comparable birds not eating fish taken from uncontaminated waters; and WHEREAS, Canadian Fisheries Studies of Coho Salmon done by Ron Sonstegard, Canada's McMaster University, identified that contaminated fish are heavily afflicted with liver, thyroid, and reproductive defects, and cancers. Sterility, lack of sexual development, undersized adult were exhibited in nearly 100% of Sonstegard's sampling and 75% of the salmon embryo died; and WHEREAS, the Nation waters are heavily contaminated with many of the 30,000 known cancer causing chemicals that the Puget Sound and other waters of the Northwest have been identified as having 360 of the most toxic chemicals causing cancers and other medical defects (congressional records, August 10 E3550 - E3553); and WHEREAS, Sonstegard has identified through scientific analysis and calculations that a person eating one pound of the Coho salmon is equivalent to drinking 400,000 gallons of contaminated water containing such chemical carcinogens as DDT, PCB, dioxins, industrial wastes, herbicides, pesticides that have been introduced into the water by pollution; and WHEREAS, the American Indians of the Northwest and elsewhere in the United States still maintain a diet that consume large quantities of salmon and the Tribes demand that the regulating Federal and State agencies recognize the importance of the Clean Water Act and the violations of Indian Treaties, Statutory laws and regulations that guarantees the quantity and quality of water; and THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians alert and request the member Tribes of the National Congress of American Indians and other organization to the need for support for the urgent passage of HR 6118, Water Pollution Cancer Research legislation; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians request Congressman Dennis Hertel of Michigan and the Congressional leaders to add language that authorizes and funds Research for the protection of the Indian Nations waters. CERTIFICATION The foregoing resolution was duly endorsed at the Annual Conference of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, at Spokane, Washington, on September 8, 1984, with a quorum present and voting. __________________________ ____________________________ Delbert Frank, President Faith Mayhew, Secretary -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To have a current Center For World Indigenous Studies Publication Catalogue sent to you via e-mail, send a request to jburrows@halcyon.com FTP ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/FWDP/CWIS/cwis-cat.txt Center For World Indigenous Studies P.O. Box 2574 Olympia, WA U.S.A. 98507-2574 BBS: 360-786-9629 FAX: 360-956-1087 OCR Provided by Caere Corporation's OmniPage Professional