Comments on: Indian Tribe Sues Researchers For Using Blood Samples to Disprove Religious Beliefs http://jonathanturley.org/2008/11/30/indian-tribe-sues-researchers-for-using-blood-samples-to-disprove-religious-beliefs/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:12:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Martharine Bernard http://jonathanturley.org/2008/11/30/indian-tribe-sues-researchers-for-using-blood-samples-to-disprove-religious-beliefs/#comment-89103 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:11:48 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=5936#comment-89103 Unfortunately I am well aware of how hatefully the Havasu’s have been dealt with, because that is my true heritage. Please don’t write me because thieves with the government and without,falsify my identity and use my website, frequently locking me out and misrepresenting themselves to anyone who tries to contact me. They are not my representatives and furthermore Havasu territory was left to my grandmother who was taken from the reservation and married an Irish man named Lonnie Joe Ferguson. Her colony name was Tina Marshall, a name given her by a U.S. Marshall who was capturing or possibly helping keep them on reservations. I am the President of Paradise which was formerly Eden, but thieves tried to claim its legacy and pretended the right to sell, trade and buy off my property and reputation. They are caught in the Floodgate/Floodwater Investigation in Wash,D.C. Also in World Court I have won a my case, but yet I and my family are political prisoners in America this very moment. Hope to see you all well.PEACE Martharine P. Sanders-Bennett-Bernard aka LITTLE CLOUD, named that for asking god for rain and receiving it multiple times, and DIAMOND ZION MARIE JACK.

]]> By: Former Federal LEO http://jonathanturley.org/2008/11/30/indian-tribe-sues-researchers-for-using-blood-samples-to-disprove-religious-beliefs/#comment-29845 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:27:40 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=5936#comment-29845 This is a tough case. Based on my biological background, I am interested in every aspect of the Havasupai’s genome. However, the use of blood samples for other than the stated and agreed upon purposes is an invasion of privacy. Genetic information is sensitive personal information and therefore susceptible to discriminatory misuse.

My atheistic opinion–i.e., discounting any religious arguments–is clearly that the Havasupai migrated into the region most likely within 500 years ago, or less, when considering the history of other indigenous peoples, the ancient Anasazi, who ‘abandoned’ the southwest around 1300 C.E. The Havasupai are of Puebloan Indian ancestry and are relatively contemporary.

However, ASU and the UA violated a trust and I think the Havasupai deserve some measure of legal remedy from invasions into a whole peoples’ cultural heritage–religious or otherwise– without their full knowledge and/or permission.

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