Posted on 11/30/2022 1:07:55 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The Biden administration will pay $75 in relocation costs to three Native American tribes whose homes are threatened by climate change, the Interior Department announced Wednesday.
The Interior Department will provide $25 million each to Washington State’s Quinault Indian Nation and Alaska’s Newtok Village and Native Village of Napakiak. The Alaska communities are the site of severe erosion, which is projected to destroy critical infrastructure in Napakiak by 2030 and within the next four years in Newtok.
Napakiak currently loses between 25-50 feet a year to erosion, according to DOI projections.
The Quinault Indian Nation is located where the Quinault River meets the Pacific Ocean, putting it at ground zero for storm surges, flooding and rising sea levels, as well as potential tsunamis caused by earthquakes on the Pacific Rim.
The funds for the voluntary program will be provided through the Bipartisan infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. The administration will also provide $5 million grants to eight other tribal communities, including four in Alaska, one in Arizona, one in California, one in Louisiana and one in Maine.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I wonder what’s under the land.
—> Alaska’s Newtok Village
Population 354
—> Native Village of Napakiak
Population 344
Let them stay or go as they desire. They can pay themselves.
75 million????
Quinalt population Population in July 2007: 1,239.
Read more: https://www.city-data.com/city/Quinault-Reservation-Washington.html
The Native Village of Napakiak population 358
Quinault Indian Nation population: 2534
Alaska’s Newtok Village population: 181
Total 3073
Each will receive $25Million.
Per capta:
The Native Village of Napakiak $69,832
Quinault Indian Nation $9865
Alaska’s Newtok Village $131,121
Average: $24,406
Would someone please tell Jao Bai Din that EROSION is a NATURAL PHENOMENON and has been occurring on Earth LONG BEFORE MAN?
Is the GRAND CANYON'S EROSION MAN'S FAULT? I THINK NOT!
To be fair, Biden is right again on this one, and he can’t really be wrong here. Climate change or no climate change, it’s always a good idea to move Native Americans around to places where they won’t be so bothersome and where they can be contained. Seems to work out well for everyone so far.
Good thing the USA is here to bail them out.
It is amazing that the Native Americans survived this long with government help. Just ask them how helpful the Federal government has been. They will tell you.
Climate Change——>>Destroy Energy Industry-——>>Welfare of the Planet’s Population Negatively Affected.
“The Biden administration will pay $75 in relocation costs”
Must be missing some zeros. Otherwise, doesn’t sound all that bad.
Kinda like giving them some nice colorful beads and a smallpox blanket. Later the Left will call this a successful operation and want the power to do this to any American by force for their own good.
No, but they will be used to dilute republican areas with democratic votes. Bought and paid for by you and me.
Then there is the Indian Nations in Oklahoma...
Crucified Land by Alexander Hogue. Gilcrease Museum Tulsa OK
Must be oil on three tribes land no other reason for Biden to do so he wants make sure they don’t sell it.
They need to be moved above the tsunami line for when the Cascadia or Alaska faults rupture. I’m sure people already live there, but that’s what eminent domain is for.
Losing landmass to erosion is a natural process that no amount of spending will prevent. You may hold it back for years, decades or even centuries, but nature will eventually win out.
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