Letter: No admission awarded Chinook

Concerning the court ruling on the reservation for the Cowlitz Tribe, the Department of the Interior’s decision can be ruled as “reasonable” because all parties turned a blind eye to the criminal acts of the United States and the Cowlitz surrounding the 152-acre parcel. The unlawful taking of these Chinook lands by means of phony presidential patents and the Cowlitz’s presentation of a handful of fraudulent deeds promulgated directly from these unlawful patents to be placed into trust for their reservation and casino is blatant land fraud.

The mutual benefits resulting from the U.S. collusion with the Cowlitz are that the U.S. gets to print a new deed title to Chinook lands and the Cowlitz get a reservation close to the Portland-Vancouver market.

The chain of acts of fraud leading to this latest ploy are violations of natural law, U.S. statues, international law as well as specifically prohibited by the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples signed by President Barack Obama on Dec. 16, 2010.

Not one of the many plaintiffs allowed these facts to be examined by the U.S. District Court.

These lands near La Center have been owned for thousands of years by the Kathlapoutle Tribe of the Tchinook Nation and today’s living Chinook are the lawful successors of who holds the original title, which was never ceded, never sold in a government-to-government sale, and never forfeited as the spoils of war.

As black people are learning again, you don’t receive “justice” from today’s judicial system.

Robert S. Taylor

Ilwaco