First Native American Interior Secretary At War With Tribe Over Oil And Gas Drilling

dailycaller.com ^ | 5/4/2023 | TREVOR SCHAKOHL

[rktman]

The Navajo Nation Council voted Thursday to oppose plans by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the country’s first-ever Native American Cabinet member, to ban oil and gas drilling on 351,000 acres of public land around New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park and establish a buffer zone surrounding the site.

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management formally proposed withdrawing the 351,000 acres of public land surrounding Chaco Canyon in January 2021, with Haaland and other New Mexico congressional Democrats having co-sponsored legislation in 2019 to establish a 10-mile buffer zone around the historical park. The Navajo Nation Council passed a January 2020 resolution proposing a 5-mile buffer zone in response to the legislation, but ultimately dismissed that proposal and condemned the public land withdrawal plan in a resolution signed Monday.

Chaco Canyon sits just east of the Navajo Nation’s territory. Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, whose lands are found more than 50 miles to the south.

[rktman]

Hey, they can always make turquoise belt buckles and stuff right deb. As in an earlier post, ya gotta work extra hard to fill THAT may high level positions with THAT many totally useless assclowns.

[Gay State Conservative]

Good for them.If drilling benefits their people...which logically would be the case...then The Big Guy’s puppet masters shouldn’t shut it down.

[Wilderness Conservative]

When you watch this woman testify she comes off as a halfwit retard. Fetal alcohol syndrome people should not be in positions of power.

[rktman]

And, if she truly is a product of the Laguna Pueblo, the FAS could be factual.

[crz]

The feds do not want any of the Amerindian Tribes off the reservation. They want to keep them in place and under control.

The Amerindians up in N and S Dakota could be the richest tribe on earth, except the feds keep stirring up the contention so they fight with each other blocking any mineral and oil exploration within tribal lands.

Per the Navajo tribe, the feds managed to shut down the coal production on the lands resulting in massive loss of revenue. The Feds did it through the eco freaks.

[Leep]

I’ve know American Indians who were completely disconnected from their native roots.
Being the first ..once again. .doesn’t necessarily mean much.

[Leep]

I’ve known American Indians who were completely disconnected from their native roots.
Being the first ..once again. .doesn’t necessarily mean much.

[Sacajaweau]

I had Indian friends...and they don’t live on the reservation. They are US citizens, own Indian lands but lived in the same city I lived in from childhood.

[dware]

she comes off as a halfwit retard

Don't they all, though? Every single leftist. Every one.

The rise of liberalism went in to overdrive when the lunatic asylums were shut down. Liberalism and the LGBTQRSTUV community.

[ridesthemiles]

548 sq miles