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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

Proposed GOP Bill Would Be First Native American Land Grab In 100 Years

Author:     teleSUR
Source:     Mint Press News
Publication Date:     September 20, 2016
 Link: Proposed GOP Bill Would Be First Native American Land Grab In 100 Years
Stephan:   As I have said countless times on SR that except for the anthropological aspect I do not care about political partisanship, whether Democratic of Republican. All that interests me are social outcomes -- if you implement this policy what happens? -- and explicit actions. That said, there is a greed, racism, and nastiness in the Republican Party that just cannot be denied. This story is an example, and we are not going to become a better country until we deal with this.
Activists in New York’s Union Square rally in support of Native-Americans battling the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.

Activists in New York’s Union Square rally in support of Native-Americans battling the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.

Two Republican congresspeople are seeking to pass a controversial bill through the U.S. House of Representatives that would seek the first land grab of Native American lands in 100 years, members of the Ute nation have warned.

The Utah Public Lands Initiative was proposed by Utah Congressperson Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz and seeks to “roll back federal policy to the late 1800s when Indian lands and resources were taken from tribal nations for the benefit of others,” the Ute Business Committee said in an article for the Salt Lake Tribune Saturday.

Bishop and Chaffetz will present the bill to the House in few weeks, and if passed it would see 18 million acres of public lands in Eastern Utah downgraded from protected lands and turned into oil and gas drilling zones that are exempted from environmental protections, Think Progress reported earlier […]

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