Bush White House grants mining on native lands

Thanks Peter (for your comment on my response to Chuck just two posts back ;^). I just hope more people take a moment to reflect on this, and to support sane efforts to help change for the better...

Update: Black Mesa Water Coalition Needs Your Support
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also here at current: http://current.com/items/89057165/black_mesa_water_coalition_needs_your_support....

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if they hire Catholic-raised illegal immigrants then I really wouldn't support the bill.

these tribes aint doing anything with it anyway
so this will help them have jobs

good job Bush helping the less have more

I don't think a war will be necessary to make these ridiculous threats go away.I still think that there are rather sane people enough,even in this gouvernment,to solve these problems.But it would be a blessing,if we could sent Bush away to some nice,secluded place for the remaining time of his presidency.

Sounds like a good enough reason for war to me.

What is this?!Another attempt to leave Obama with a nightmare legacy,just like his plans for oil-drlling off the Californian coast.?Or just some kind of 'convulsions',by a dementing megalomaniac.Besides,can he just do this?Don't the natives have certain unalienable rights and doesn't the state of California have rights to stand in his unholy way?

Don't stop fighting Mokawnation fight for what is rightfully yours. You are not a terrorist in more peoples eyes than you imagine. More and more Americans are becoming aware that the Greed of the American corporations. This Greed has turned them into the terrorists and more and more people are willing to fight. It is a long and slow process but it is happening and this President has raised the worlds awareness of just how Greedy and Dishonest and Untrustworthy a government can be to the extent of killing innocent people for its own self Greed. Keep fighting the good fight, you have more help than you think.

Why hasn't someone shot that man yet?

Mitt Romney Mormon vindication. Get used to it, kids. They're spreading.

so what keeps ME from claiming land like this, I mean since sombody must have it in order to be selling it... how can I claim this land?

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Not only do they take the coal, but they drain the underground water sources to slurry the coal chunks to a processing plant.

It is genocide.

The exploitation of Native Americans and their land is a tragedy but this particular case is not a race matter; these are greedy capitalists exploiting nature and federal loopholes for their own benefit - they would destroy Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty if profitable! I recommend the tribe(s) lock them up in federal and local court for a couple of years, create zoning laws for all sacred ground!! As for the terrorist comment - violence will solve nothing! These battles are won by affecting bottom line profits and time!

He is trying to throw the screws to OBama. Bush still has a couple of weeks, he just may declare all Americans including The president elect as terrorists and order them imprisoned in those Haliburton built prisons. After all Congress hasn't lifted a finger or mouthed an objection to date. So he has a blank check to place all of us under arrest.

Mining for what?

Can't they sue them for mass amounts of money? Actually can't they sue the American government anyways, at any time they want to, to regain their land back? From what I know, and if the Indians get a good enough lawyer, they can sue the American government for a shit load of land and money. They need to start doing so asap.

You will never see Bush punished. It's not a crime! The Clintons got away with a bunch of crap before they left and nothing was done. And nothing will be done now!
Now maybe just maybe we need to stop these lame duck presidential moves by making them illegal. That would take legislation to be brought forth and passed. See if you can get Pelosi to get that done in the next 4 years. Ha...good luck

This is total and absolute bullshit!

Stop trying to further rape and pillage the Native American people.

I hope to one day see Bush severely punished for his crimes...

In case the Native Americans haven't been screwed over and over enough he wants to add to it? Maybe the only way him and Cheney get off is by squashing people. They seem to have no actual morals, and no respect for humans. Lives are cheap in their eyes.

as if he hasn't done enough damage to this country and its people. now he opens up mining in lands that are scared to our people. when will this country stand up and unite. bush should be tried for war crimes. he is just as bad as hussian was. maybe the arabs should hunt his ass down and try him and hang his ass.

why should bush care? it's not like native land serves him in any way...

this sucks. it sucks that Obama is inheritting such a huge effing mess that he probably won't have as much attention as he would like to give to matters like this... sigh.

damn you bush! the native american people are struggling to survive as it is. This makes me so pissed!

This is terrible, I seriously hope they don't go through with this.

This guy needs to be locked up and put on display as a total mutated ass. The world and Ammerica needs to fear this jackass as long as the American people do nothing to sink him. I read where he is 21st o the list of tyrants, I believe that he shoulld be up there with Stalin, Hitler and Ivan the terrible. His whole administration, Condi, Dicky, Rummi are a menace to society and they will probably become more active now with Kissinger, Brizinski. Thewe people live from war and make billions financing wars. Read or better yet watch the videos on You Tube about the beginning ot the Rothschild dynasty's. Get smart.

Yeah, given that there are individual treaties with each of these indian nations, can they do this? Isn't this like passing a resolution condemning another nation's policies? Does the US government have jurisdiction?

Reservations are considered Federal.

He's already going after wildlife reserves too, so this doesn't surprise me one bit. He's a drunken retarded cowboy, and the US government is his gun.... It was only a matter of time before he started shooting down bald eagles.

I thought the federal government had no jurisdiction over native-american lands.

I think any reasonable person won't be able to understand, and sadly, the only logic is wealth.

My question is WHY? Is he just trying to make as huge of a mess as he possibly can? It reminds me of my middle son sabotaging his brother's toy so his brother couldn't use it.

Could someone please enlighten me? Someone with a brain, preferably, please.

Obama end it? According to this article he can but may not due to having to worry about the economy. What a cop out. And Ken Salazar as his head of the Interior is a friend of mining. So I don't place much hope in this being reversed. Though again, it would be nice to be proven wrong.

look up pictures of mineing! it will absolutly destroy the beauty of the land! sides of mountains blown off, a giant hole in the ground! is that what we want to turn a perfect landscape into? hopefully chief barack can end it as soon as its started.

Does not bode well for his environmental legacy? What legacy? He doesn't have a legacy. All he leaves is destruction in his path. This is truly outrageous and sad. I hope they do fight this and win a huge settlement. Though I know that does not even come close to the value of their sacred land on a spiritual level. I am so sorry about this.

Can the Native Americans be screwed even more?
-_-;;

My goodness, this is wrong on many levels in my eyes. This is sacred land to those tribes and should be respected as such, since the Native Americans where here before the colonisers this makes it much more their land than ours. There is no respect or values anymore, everything is geared for more POWER whether by resources, finances, dominion.... whatever etc.

Right on, mohawknation.

wuts the differcne they be mining on our lands for hundreds of yrs not just our territories but thourgh out the states and we still havent go see a percentage of it. i would like to kno where there mining if neone knows. the white man has raped our land of resource since they settled around here back b4 america was called america and when we fight back they lable us as terrorist what is a bunch of BS how can they call us terrorist when this is our land that was stolen from us? who is the real terrorist? i know in america and canada;s eyes im a terrorist cause i dont sit back and let that type of stuff to happen. but in my eyes they are then biggest terrorist org. in the world! and im lettin everyone no right now new york state will have alot of trouble if they keep tryn to press tax on our lands thats a promise! from me and the mohawk nation warrior society

That would go against many tribes beliefs...I think it's just ludicrous that the government will allot American Indians land, and after all this time, still be pillaging them for resources. What that tribe needs to do is hire a good lawyer in tribal law and sue the hell out of the government and/or Peabody Coal. Only changing policy will do any good now, and atleast bring some notariety to the case. I wonder how much of that coal money even gets back to the tribe, and how many Natives are employed there.