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Nelson, Cathy; Luebben, Thomas E --- "Update on the Western Shoshone Land Rights Struggle against the US Government" [2002] IndigLawB 52; (2002) 5(19) Indigenous Law Bulletin 18

[1] This article is an update of an article by Thomas E Leubben, ‘The Western Shoshone: the land rights struggle of the Western Shoshone Nation’ (1988) 2(31) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 10.

[2] There were a total of 13 lower-court cases from 1977 to 1991.

[3] See IACHR admissibility report citing receipt of the Dann petition on 2 April 1993: Case 11.140, Inter-Am CHR, No 99/99 (Mary and Carrie Dann, United States) (27 September 1999), para 2, available on www.iachr.org.

[4] Preliminary Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Case No 11.140, Inter-Am CHR, Report No 113/01 (Mary and Carrie Dann) (15 October 2001).

[5] This was a Request for Action under the Urgent Action/Early Warning procedure: Situation of Western Shoshone Indigenous People, submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 19 August 1999. See also the supplement to the Request for Action: Situation of Western Shoshone Indigenous People, submitted to Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 25 August 1999 (on file with authors).

[6] Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: United States of America, 14/08/2001, CERD/C/59/Misc.17/Rev.3.

[7] A bill to provide for the use and distribution of the funds awarded to the Western Shoshone Identifiable Group under Indian Claims Commission Docket Numbers 326-A-1, 326-A-3, 326-K, and for other purposes, 2002: Hearing on S.958 Before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, 107th Congress (2002). The statement of Neil A McCaleb, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, available at http://indian.senate.gov/2002hrgs/080202hrg/080202hrg_wit.htm, indicated that balance was US$137,286,774).

[8] Preliminary Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, above n 4.

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