We own a farm in a county that has the Haskell Indian University (used to be Institute) which was where the g’mint sent the Indian children to teach them to be white. Lots of abuses over the years but I won’t go into that. The state has been trying for years to put a by-pass south of the Haskell land but because it was once a few years ago used by probably drunken students to have a drum circle, they tried to stop it. Also, Baker University (same county different town) owns some of it and although they are fine with selling it, they had flooded it intentionally to create wetlands to study. Pretty cool wetlands but not naturally occurring but the environmental weenies objected. So Baker has done a deal to drain their wetlands and flood other land, the Native Americans have probably been bought off and finally, 15 years later, there are some little red flags going up along where the by-pass will be built so hopefully by next year it will be possible to drive past Lawrence without taking an extra hour of time. The cost of this delay is incalculable.
Poison pill for almost any project.
Too much unauthorized power for a political appointee. Shades of the 1933 Nazi “Enabling Act.”
I don't think the Interior Secretary would know a sacred American Indian site if they tripped over it.
This isn't about preserving anything but Federal Control.