The Margerine Method of Land Management:
Keep The Land
Keep the Lakes
Get Rid of The Injun.
((((Works With Native Hawaiians Too)))
ML/LTOS
Posted on 08/31/2023 8:02:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The left has romanticized and claimed guardianship over Native American peoples for years.
Anecdotally, most of us who know Native Americans know they can't stand it.
But now we are seeing a lot of instances of Native Americans pushing back at their cloying 'guardians' on the left who are starting to get overbearing.
Here's their latest outrage, according to Ethan Brown, writing at RealClearEnergy:
On June 2, the U.S. Department of the Interior blocked oil and gas leasing for the next twenty years within a ten-mile radius of Chaco Canyon — the site of a Puebloan civilization in now-northern New Mexico dating back over a millennium. Despite some support from people within the Pueblo tribes and Navajo Nation which surround the land, the vast majority of Navajo leaders have opposed these drilling restrictions.
It's their land. Why shouldn't they be able to develop it as they see fit? Why is it that Joe Biden and all his lackeys in government can't trust the Native Americans to keep the operation on reasonable environmental standards, conserve the Earth (people with ownership don't trash their own properties), and be able to earn money from it to serve their very large tribal family?
Maybe they don't want to be constantly in hock to the government for handouts because having their own money is better. Maybe they would like to raise their standard of living same as city people do. Maybe it's none of the government's business.
According to Brown, who apparently believes in global warming nonsense, but nevertheless has his heart in the right place, it is an economic matter:
Navajos are no stranger to climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
So when they express opposition to a drilling ban on their land, we can trust they’ve weighed the pros and cons. Within the Navajo Nation, 35.8% of households have incomes below the federal poverty threshold, and about 10% live without electricity. The Chaco Canyon drilling ban would strip an energy source from the Navajo Nation, and could cost Navajos an estimated $194 million over the next two decades.
That's a lot of money for them to leave on the table so that white tourists can come to their lands and marvel at its natural beauty instead.
I know there’s a long history of difficult relations with Indian tribes. Way too much to talk about here.
But on the specific issue of what happens on Indian land, don’t the tribes have sovereignty over their own land and resources? Legally speaking, don’t they have the right to develop as they see fit?
It seems to me the decisions should be up to the tribes, as to what happens on their land.
“The left has romanticized and claimed guardianship over Native American peoples for years.”
Taking care of the Native Americans is obviously the liberal White woman’s burden.
I’ll listen to them and back them once they stop taking government (our) money.
Great White Father make Heap Big Mistake!.................
I call BS! on this!
Certainly these questions are good when the discussion is centered around Native American issues.
But what about me? I'm just a guy. I'm just a US citizen. I have land too. Why does the government get to control the little details of my life?
Not being a Native American doesn't mean that I don't also matter.
Were reservations good, or were they bad?
I hear they were very bad.
But we need to have them, right?
So they’re good.
Protected lands for certain Americans who have special rights and permissions?
Could there be such places for blacks? Or maybe the oppressed LGBT community?
That way, oppressed people could go from their special places with their special rights right to their Ivy League schools or Executive Boardrooms or Top Brass jobs in the military or wherever else these unfortunate people are needed.
they should take their concerns to senator Gray Beaver from Massachusetts.
We give them millions every year. We have a say...
so you take the position, that we should ban development of Indian land, because we subsidize them in other ways. I don’t know how much money we all pay to support Indian reservations and people living there.
I thought some tribes were self supporting but I don’t know enough about Indian affairs to have an opinion overall on this.
SOURCE:
Approximately 56.2 million acres are held in trust by the United States for various Indian tribes and individuals. There are approximately 326 Indian land areas in the U.S. administered as federal Indian reservations (i.e., reservations, pueblos, rancherias, missions, villages, communities, etc.).
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That’s an area GREATER than the size of North Korea (29 million acres) and South Korea ( 24 million acres ) combined.
To put it in perspective, both Koreas combined, have about 77 million people.
In contrast, there are just about 10 million Native Americans in the USA. See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
That’s more land available per Native American than most countries in the world !!
You just think you have land. Try not paying your property tax and see who really owns the land. (I am a landowner, and this infuriates me)
Remember the Navajo reservation is a desert, and the water underneath is so alkali it cannot be used for drinking. But it is the area they wanted for a reservation.
Fifty years ago there were plans to build energy centers on the Rez that would bring in needed jobs and water to the tribe but the AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT (AIM) got it all shut down in 1975 as they also did the Fairchild Plant in Shiprock that year. I was there.
Now compare them with the Cherokee reservation in Oklahoma. Lots of streams, lakes, good wells. Fishing, deer, jobs....
It’s much more complicated than you think.
FBI just aching for another Ruby Ridge, Waco, Wounded Knee/Leonard Peltier, etc resumé enhancing event. Lot’s of Lon Horiuchi wannabees out there.
Yup—at the end of the day the .gov decides who is “special” and who is not and then claims it is “equity”.
Lol.
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