FILE - This Oct. 11, 2007 file photo shows Jake Edward of the Onondaga Council of Chiefs standing outside the federal courthouse in Albany, N.Y., after arguments were heard in the Onondaga Indian Nation's land claim case against New York state. A Native American nation is asking the international community to charge the United States with human rights violations in hopes of getting help with a land claim. The Onondaga Indian Nation says it plans to file a petition at the Organization of American States on Tuesday, seeking human rights violations against the United States government. They want the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to declare that the U.S. government’s decision not to hear their lawsuit asking for the return of 2.5 million acres in upstate New York to be violations of international human rights agreements. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)