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Sequester Watch: Obama's Government Finds The Money To Spend 2 Billion Buying Land And Giving It Back To Indian Tribes
How?
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) — The U.S. government is gearing up to spend nearly $2 billion on 10 million acres of land that will in turn be given back to Native American tribes.
The plan entails buying back reservation land from willing sellers and distributing that land among 150 tribes across the nation, the McClatchy Newspapers reported Sunday.
Congress agreed to the buyback in 2010 to settle a lawsuit.
“We can improve Indian Country if people will go along with this program and sell their interests back to their tribes,” Kevin Washburn, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said in an interview.
Meanwhile, tribe leaders say 45 percent of the land will go to just seven tribes, while other tribes will have to fight over the rest.
“We’re all going to be fighting for scraps,” said Chief James Allan of Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Tribe
And, many believe that property owners are expected to be reluctant sellers.
“This is a modern day retaking of the land and, given the historical implications of that, they don’t want to relive it,” said Les Riding-In, assistant dean and director of graduate studies at the University of Texas-Arlington and a member of the Comanche Tribe. “It’s reminiscent of how the government took the land back when colonization was happening."
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We No Smoke 'Em Peace Pipe The whole notion of the "Native American Reservation", of the sanctity of "tribes", etc., it's all racism and always has been. I'm glad they're finally being called out on it by someone other than me. And, really,...
- Moby Dick
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most...
- Another Genocide (by Default)
(All emphases by Always On Watch) Photo credit Caption: "Gonga Petro perches on a rock in the Yaeda Valley, where the Hadzabe still hunt with hand-hewn arrows." The left is forever pointing out the evils of Western colonialism but, for the most part,...
- Where Are We?
Five years later american politics are fractured, divisive and partisan. Five years later world views are that america is more of a threat to 'peace' than anyone else? Five years later Bin Laden is the prime beneficiary of Pakistan's surrender...