This month marks two years since the Onondaga Nation, which I represent, filed a petition with the Organization of American States’ InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights charging the American government with human rights violations for refusing to even consider gross violations of treaty obligations under the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua—signed on behalf of a new United States by George Washington—for denial of justice in the federal courts and for environmental destruction of the original Onondaga lands and waters.