The dispute started in December when the EPA ruled on a request from the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes, which sought "state status" in order to administer air quality monitoring. The EPA determined the land in question actually belongs to the Wind River Indian Reservation and has for more than a century, despite a 1905 law opening it to non-tribal members. The decision encompasses the city of Riverton.
COMMENTS:
What a gut-wrenching battle this is for me. I’m solidly behind the tribes getting some of
their land back; I’ve been involved in Indian Country all of my life, and I
feel it’s been an ongoing gross injustice that we whites have perpetrated
against Native Americans. On the other
hand, I also have a background in the study of law. Now, I’m not educated on the particulars of how
the Northern Arapahos and the Eastern Shoshone ended up on the same
reservation. I do know that they own a
lot of land in Wyoming. I have to
presume that they ended up there either because the government forced them
there or because they agreed to some treaty.
In either event, the U.S. Congress had to be a party to the ultimate
decision. I firmly believe that the EPA
lacks the official capacity to determine who the land belongs to, and that they
should have their over-reaching ears pinned back. The Wind River tribes, however, do have the
standing to take the matter to Federal Court and on to the Supreme Court. But, if you allow the EPA to make the
decision, then why shouldn’t the Department of Education be able to rule that
Manhattan also belongs to the Lenape American Indians?
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. How can we have the audacity to suspend the debt limit? (Janice ~ Eureka, CA)
A. That’s about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of. Why
doesn’t this country just roll over and play dead until the Chinese come to
collect on their debt?
Q. Now that Bloomberg is out of office, what’s going on with
his organization, “Mayors Against Guns?” (Rod ~ Lander, WY)
A. It’s Mayors Against Illegal
Guns, and mayors are literally running away in droves. They claim that they didn’t realize the
organization wants to trash the Second Amendment and take away all of our gun
rights. They insist that they are
against illegal guns, (who isn’t?), and
that the organization morphed into a personal vendetta by Bloomberg and his
hooligans against all guns. Bloomberg has said now that he is out of
office, he intends to take gun control head on until every last gun in the
country has been melted down, and he doesn’t care whether you like it or
not. He stinks like hell and needs a GI
shower.
Q. I know all of the figures floating out of the Obama
Administration are as worthless as teats on a boar but, do you have any idea
how many people are really signing up for ObamaCare? (Sonni ~ Vancouver, WA)
A. Whatever the truth is, only half of them have paid any
premiums. Now, we do know that they
claim 6 million, but in that figure are the people who have not paid, the
people who ended up on Medicaid instead, and the people who already had
insurance and were forced onto ObamaCare for one reason for another. My
suspicions are that the number of actual new ObamaCare enrollees is less than 2
million, of which half have not paid. Frankly,
I am in total favor of people NOT signing up as a measure of their defiance of
this purely rotten law, as long as they can find some other form of coverage or
they can afford medical care themselves.
I have to add that caveat, because I don’t want to see anyone hurt
financially in this battle, except ObamaCare itself.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“The only way we seem to be able to eliminate our debt is to
eliminate the politicians who create it.” ~ The Unknown Scribbler
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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