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Monthly Archives: July 2020
Drama on the Rez: Big Oil, Oklahoma, and Trump put the Five Tribes under pressure
With the ink barely dry on the Supreme Court ruling that eastern Oklahoma is in fact reservation land of the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole, the Five Tribes are under pressure to relinquish some of their new-found sovereignty. The … Continue reading
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Tagged big oil, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Five Tribes, McGirt, Melonia, oil, oil industry, Oklahoma, Osage murders, permit, pipeline, pressure, regulation, royalties, SCOTUS, Seminole, sovereignty, Stitt, tax, trump
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How Covid, Obama, and the Standing Rock Sioux shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline
Obama’s Play On December 4, 2016, during that short window between Hillary Clinton’s loss and Trump’s inauguration, the US Army Corp of Engineers, at the direction of lame duck President Barack Obama, announced that construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline … Continue reading
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Tagged #DAPL, #standingrock, army corp, boasberg, Covid, Dakota Access, eis, eis process, judge, Obama, ruling, Sioux, Standing Rock
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Paha Sapa, Custer’s Last Stand, Mt. Rushmore, and Wounded Knee: A history of the Black Hills in one diagram
A lot of stories are linked to the Black Hills; a lot of dots connect there. Here’s a very abbreviated history. CLICK TO ENLARGE See this blog post for more background on the Great Sioux Nation, both past and present. … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Hills, Crazy Horse, Custer, custer's last stand, grant, greasy grass, great sioux nation, Great Sioux Reservation, Hearst, kkk, lakota, Mt. Rushmore, Paha Sapa, peltier, Sioux, Sitting Bull, six grandfathers, the black hills are not for sale, treaty of 1868, Wounded Knee
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