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Citizen's Equal Rights Foundation/Citizen's Equal Rights Alliance
P.O. Box 93, Ronan, MT, 59864, (605) 374-5836
http://www.citizensalliance.org
CERA and CERF are affiliated groups that are part
of the U.S. Anti-Sovereignty movement. They use
a rhetoric of equal rights to argue that American
Indians should be citizens like all other American
citizens, and that the sovereign status of tribes recognized
by the federal government should be eliminated.
CERA’s focus is national, and they target specific
legislation. Articles available through its website discuss
why sovereignty has harmed rather than helped
American Indians, and why it is unconstitutional.
Ultimately they suggest that a constitutional amendment
eliminating native sovereignty may be neccesary
to ensure the pledge of “one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.” The Montana
Human Rights Network and others have observed
that groups like CERA/CERF are part of the Anti-
Indian movement, and that their “systematic effort
to deny legally established rights to a group of people
[American Indians] who are identified on the basis of
their shared culture, history, religion and tradition”
makes it “racist by definition.”
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