Trump Removes Only American Indian Presidential Appointee from Cultural Property Advisory Committee
AAIA Executive Director Shannon Keller O’Loughlin
Published July 12, 2019
WASHINGTON — President Trump has expressed his intent to remove Shannon Keller O’Loughlin, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the first and only American Indian representation on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee in the U.S. State Department and appoint Stefan C. Passatino in her place.
Mr. Passatino works as outside legal counsel for the Trump administration, formulating its responses to Congress’ various investigations. The House of Representatives Oversight Committee has been investigating Mr. Passatino for ethical misconduct relating to making false statements regarding Trump’s financial dealings with Michael Cohen.
He has no known experience in protecting cultural heritage resources.
O’Loughlin, executive director and attorney for the Association on American Indian Affairs, was appointed by President Barack Obama. Ms. O’Loughlin has deep expertise regarding United States law that protects cultural heritage and has served on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee as well.
She is the only Committee member replaced during the Trump administration. Other members of the Committee have been serving over many administrations and yet continue to serve.
The Cultural Property Advisory Committee is a federal advisory committee administered by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs, which advises the President on appropriate U.S. action in response to requests from foreign governments for assistance in protecting their cultural heritage. This Committee was established by the 1983 Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act, which implements Article 9 of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. In the committee’s 33-year existence, never had an American Indian been appointed to this position.
The U.S. State Department’s Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs has a significant budget that is used to protect other countries’ cultural heritage, but little to nothing towards protecting American Indian cultural heritage from being exported out of the United States or to help repatriate cultural heritage items back to tribal nations. The inclusion of an American Indian perspective on the Committee is imperative to make sure that agreements with other countries are truly mutual and advocate to protect American Indian cultural heritage.
Additionally, American Indian representation assures that the United States does not overstep its boundaries by asking other countries to do more than what the U.S. is willing to do to protect cultural heritage in the United States.
It is unfortunate…however, not surprising.
Considering the raids to deport illegals this sunday,
many descend from those whose two thirds of their
territory were stolen by genocide masters of the world
USA..
She’s not his type
Trump probably thinks Kit Carson didn’t poison enough wells.
…another slap in the face of native americans
by a know nothing washington politican.
trump knows what he is doing … he does not care about the native Americans who block pipe lines and drive up fuel prices… he does cares about Hispanic and black voters who are being hired in record numbers , and police and military who will vote for him … he does not care about illegal foreign national who are not living in tent cities on native american reservations … they are living in tent cities in american cities … trump cares about the mobile meth labs that move on and off native american lands to avoid detection … trump cares more about Israeli’s than he does about native american’s… because Israeli’s have the same relationship with Palestine Arabs … ( those Arabs who occupied the land after the roman destruction of Israel ) , that america has with her native american s . may i point out , that the american solution has not worked as well as you may like …. but it is a great deal better than what has happened , and currently is happening in Palestine. not because of anything trump has done … most , if not all of your current unhappiness should actually be directed at the very socialism you support
may i add , not every one who is against trump is for socialism …. but the net result will be… any one who does not oppose the nazi’s , will live with the nazi’s , when they ( the nazi’s ) take power as a result of every one else being unfocused . the same people who were restrained in the past , will not be restrained in the future , to understand what these socialist will do in the future… look at the past , for these people are not any different . look to history before you support any one , and understand that there is nothing magical about this dirt… that will protect it from the socialism which is coming . and it is coming . Argentinian socialism killed 90% of its native population in 3 years , nazi’s killed 3 million Jews and 17 million gypsy’s … Stalin killed not fewer than 50 million native russians . look to the past to see into the future . you worry about a single women who had her own agenda … when you should be looking at a political organization and its intentions on your lives
Illegal? Nobody is illegal all the stolen land, every last inch there was ever lol? That would include alot of people haha! Maybe they will send them to Catholic boarding schools n beat them when they speak the language that they ever have known…
You took the words right outta my mouth , Oglala Winyan!
The White House should probably think about circling the wagons right about now…
You can say the same thing about every piece of land on earth! Wow
she serves at the pleasure of the president . any one who works at the white house , or for the administration has one thing in common… servicing at the pleasure of the president . i understand that government service appears to be … working for the democrat party to expand and increase the size and scope of the government in every ones lives … but in fact …. the people with in the administration 1) protect and defend the constitution against all enemy foreign and domestic , and serve the president at his pleasure . and that pretty much says everything