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Danke
11-06-2017, 05:03 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/just-trump-urges-native-american-183649829.html


President Donald Trump reportedly encouraged Injun tribal leaders to extract resources from the land they control—regardless of federal regulations—during a meeting in late June.
Axios reported late Sunday (https://www.axios.com/trumps-government-of-one-2506850819.html) that Trump told tribal leaders: "...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."
Newsweek has not independently confirmed these comments, though Trump’s public remarks during energy roundtable meeting on June 28 (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/28/remarks-president-trump-and-secretary-energy-rick-perry-tribal-state-and) mirrored the sentiments of his public remarks:
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“Many of your lands have rich, natural resources that stand to benefit your people immensely,” he said. “These untapped resources of wealth can help you build new schools, fix roads, improve your communities and create jobs—jobs like you’ve never seen before.”
D“We’re becoming more and more energy dominant. I don’t want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world.”


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In response to a slide presentation that tribal leaders had prepared to explain the regulatory barriers to extracting resources, Axios reported (https://www.axios.com/the-unfiltered-version-of-trumps-meeting-with-native-american-leaders-2507090841.html) that Trump said: “But now it’s me. The government’s different now. Obama’s gone; and we’re doing things differently here...So what I’m saying is, just do it.”
Later, he added: “Guys, I feel like you’re not hearing me right now.”
“I feel like we’ve got no choice; other countries are just doing it. China is not asking questions about all of this stuff. They’re just doing it.”
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One unnamed source recounted the scenario to Axios .
A second source confirmed the comments, but said that the comments were “Trump speak.” That source explained that the President’s comments were intended to show Trump’s push for removing Obama-era regulations—not to violate federal laws.
Deregulation of energy development on reservations has been discussed as a top-priority between Trump’s team and an appointed coalition of Injun leaders, Reuters reported (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tribes-regulations-insight/red-tape-chokes-off-drilling-on-native-american-reservations-idUSKBN15B0E7). Tribes that are pursuing energy development—including the Southern Ute Tribe in Colorado, the Ute Tribe of Utah, the Montana Crow, and the Navajo Nation across the Southwest—still back the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protests over the ongoing pipeline construction in North Dakota. The deregulation goals often stem from the overall aim to have full jurisdiction over their lands.

enhanced_deficit
11-06-2017, 05:23 PM
Making Injuns Great Again.

Making Native Americans Great Again.

oyarde
11-06-2017, 05:54 PM
If this is in reference to June 28 meeting that included Maine , Nebraska , Iowa and Alaska Governors , I think also were present were the Chairman of Crow Res. in Montana , Chairman of the Ute Res. in Utah & Colorado , Governor of the Chickasaw in the Indian Territory , Councilman of the Southern Ute in Utah , Speaker from the Navajo in Arizona and New Mexico , Chairman from the Hopi in Arizona , Chief of the Indian Territory Choctaw , Chairman of the Alabama in Texas , a Chairman of Michigan Chippewa and Chairman of North Dakota Mandan , Hidatsa and Arikara . Rick Perry was there but the Interior Secratary was absent . Of course the EPA administrator was there and the Interior Sec.'s lawyer . The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the police force they have fall under the Interior for any who are not aware .

oyarde
11-06-2017, 06:13 PM
Personally , I think the last thing the tribes need are anymore interaction with govt , DC , EPA , Lawyers , Interiors Bureau of Indian Affairs Police etc .

Ender
11-06-2017, 07:09 PM
Personally , I think the last thing the tribes need are anymore interaction with govt , DC , EPA , Lawyers , Interiors Bureau of Indian Affairs Police etc .

Exactly.

Also, as soon as resources are discovered, .gov will conveniently move the tribe to another not-so-resourceful piece of land.

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/navajo-forced-relocate

oyarde
11-07-2017, 01:56 PM
Seriously , who would trust the govt. when they say go ahead break the unjust rules ?