Aren’t they a sovereign people who can tell Uncle to stick it? The White Mountain Apache Tribe over in Arizona manages its own forest lands without interference from the Feds.
I went to White Mountain res a year ago. Horrifying.
As you left Pinetop headed south on the highway, suddenly you the clean neat homes gave way to shacks straight out of the 1930s.
My wife noticed how bad the houses were there and didn’t know we had crossed into the res. I told her we just crossed into socialism. Nobody here owns the land their house sits on and can’t sell it.
Then we stopped at Hawley Lake. I cannot describe how bad it was. Looked like a great little fishing lake from the 70s with cabins, a store, rentals, etc. But all the cabins and lake houses were build on land the tribe leased out in the 1950s. (Some of John Wayne’s Islands in the Sky was filmed there when it was frozen over)
The leases ended and the tribe took over the property. They are all abandoned and uninhabitable today. Roof falling in, windows all broken out. It’s like one of those “After the people are gone” TV shows.
They don’t even have the decency or energy to tear them down.
I have plenty of respect for the Indians back when. But these today are lazy and greedy bums that are among the worst stewards of the land imaginable.
James Watt said it. If you want to see the failure of socialism don’t go to the USSR, go to an Indian Reservation.
You would think, but no.
The BIA manages everything. And steals everything.
For their “protection.”