The Dann Sisters

The Dann Sisters

Infobox Person
name = The Dann Sisters


image_size = 280px
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home_land = Crescent Valley, Nevada
occupation = Ranching, cultural and spiritual rights, and land rights activist.

The Dann Sister (Western Shoshone ranchers, cultural and spiritual rights and land rights activist Carrie and Mary Dann filed a request for urgent action with the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. They persuaded the UN and the US government was ordered to halt all actions against the Western Shoshone people. However the mandate has mostly been ignored by the US government. Fact|date=April 2008

References

* [http://www.wsdp.org/dann.htm] A longer biography hosted by the Western Shosone Defense Project website.


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