The Margerine Method of Land Management:
Keep The Land
Keep the Lakes
Get Rid of The Injun.
((((Works With Native Hawaiians Too)))
ML/LTOS
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.
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....
FBI just aching for another Ruby Ridge, Waco, Wounded Knee/Leonard Peltier, etc resumé enhancing event. Lot’s of Lon Horiuchi wannabees out there.
Because they deserve the white man's $$$ because of all the atrocities white man perpetrated against them, not realizing in their race to punish whitey, they are placing themselves squarely under the thumb of federal regulation. Tribes are NOT sovereign, despite claims to the contrary. One sovereign does not have to ask another sovereign permission to do something with their own land.
Just another reminder that everyone is just a serf on the government’s land. To do anything on your land you must have permission and don’t forget to pay your rent or the government will turn you out.
Because you stupidly jumped in bed with libtards and now they will control you and your land
Next question
Tell the feds to go to hell.
