US Bill Seeks First Native American Land Grab in 100 Years
Source: Telesur
US Bill Seeks First Native American Land Grab in 100 Years
Protesters demonstrate against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux
reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, Sept. 9, 2016. | Photo: Reuters
Published 19 September 2016
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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 this year when the bill was unveiled.
The actions of Bishop and Chaffetz would seek to divest the Ute Indian Tribe of their ancestral homelands, the committee added while also bringing back failed policies of tribal land dispossession that have had a devastating and lasting impact upon tribal nations for the past century.
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Kathy M
(1,242 posts)Hope this gets picked up and some awareness made
BlueMTexpat
(15,365 posts)KT2000
(20,568 posts)in this effort? They want it all - national parks, forests, wildlife refuges etc.
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Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)Republicans are monsters.
William Seger
(10,775 posts)... is a great example of how Republicans con stupid voters into voting against their own best interests.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Martak Sarno
(77 posts)Some company needs to take Bishop's and Chavetz's and/or their relative's and friends homes by eminent domain and "put up a parking lot!"
(for the benefit of others!)
Arazi
(6,829 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,438 posts)niyad
(113,052 posts)angrychair
(8,678 posts)It's from an OP-ED in the Salt Lake Tribune:
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4358069-155/op-ed-pli-would-be-the-first
The Bill is HR5780, the Utah Public Lands Initiative.
Delmette
(522 posts)That helps alot when emailing our Representatives.
Igel
(35,274 posts)With the text of the bill.