Cobell's name will go down in history as the woman who won recognition and respect for her people, who had been cheated out of money by the federal government since the late 1800s. The measure was funded and approved by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and signed into law by President Barack Obama on Dec. 8, 2010. She also helped found the Blackfeet National Bank, now the Native American Bank, in 1987, the first tribally owned bank in the United States.In 2010, Ms. Cobell told the Missoula Independent:
When I leave Washington, I feel like I'm drained, like everyone's taken all the blood out of me. But as soon as you drive into your driveway and you see those mountains, you're puffed up again...you're back to normal and you're human again.When will tribes in South Dakota be compensated for the theft of the Black Hills?
According to the Rapid City Journal, South Dakota's Dennis Daugaard (earth hater, Dell Rapids) has finally adopted some of ip's advice to private landowners in the Black Hills:
The South Dakota governor unveiled an initiative to fight pine beetles in August, and the state Agriculture Department is now helping landowners with identification and eradication efforts.Good luck with that, dipshits; without prescribed fire you assholes are screwed.
President Obama: with an executive order, you could move the lands that now make up the Black Hills National Forest and the Custer National Forest into the protection of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Rewild the West.
After gigs in Bozeman, the Back Porch in Spearditch, and on his way to Sioux City, the keyboard player for Seattle-based Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs is treating Pump House Coffee patrons as i type this:
4 comments:
What our reservations need to do is look into creating their own "Foreign Trade Zone". It looks like it can be done and it would mean they would become a clearing house in this part of the country.
The Blindman
i hadn't thought of that, Bill. Wonder how each rez would apply or if they could apply collectively. It would be simpler if they were just counties in a non-contiguous state, innit?
I don’t know about that Larry. I doubt if the feds would allow more then one in this part of the country so it would be the first tribe to put the best plan on the table. It does look like the tribes in North Dakota would have an easier time of presenting a workable plan because of their nearness to Canada.
Innit makes me laugh. Years ago when we still used the big dish for TV we used to swing it around to look at the Canadian stations once in a while. We like rodeo here so when the Canadian Indian national finales rodeo came on we had to watch it. From stock contractors to the announcer they all ended sentences with innit eh.
It doesn’t take much to tickle my funny bone.
The Blindman
If Israel can look like at slice of Swiss cheese made out of smoke and mirrors, why not the 51st State?
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