At the first Thanksgiving, the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims celebrated the gifts of their creator – the natural bounty of the Earth and of cultivated crops – together.
Today, many Native Americans are left out of an incredible economic renaissance that is coming from the land’s natural resources.
Because of oppressive federal regulations, Indian reservations have been called “the hole of a donut” in parts of our country where oil and natural gas extraction is creating an economic-and-opportunity revolution – for everyone except Native Americans.
A few weeks ago, President Trump – the man the left likes to call “racist” – raised eyebrows when Axios reported that he told Native American leaders that they should not be left out any longer. The website said the president told tribal leaders to go ahead and extract energy resources from their lands – federal regulations be damned.
As reported by Axios, when tribal leaders explained the regulatory barriers to energy extraction on a reservation, President Trump said: “Chief, chief. What are they going to do? Once you get it out of the ground are they going to make you put it back in there? I mean, once it’s out of the ground it can't go back in there. You’ve just got to do it. I'm telling you, chief, you’ve just got to do it.”
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1 comment:
Indians have the biggest welfafe benifits along with the biggest poverty and drug abuse. Lets give them more and maybe that will fix everything. May be if we throw a couple more billion at the public shool system it will also solve its problems. Hell give me a, a, a, a, billion I'll keep working everyday and be productive, "I Promise"
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