How! Me great white father. You ignorant Indian. You shut down casinos. Turn off PCs. Do not look at TV. Do not drive cars. Give a hoot. Do not pollute.
You take this wampum to build teepee. Now me go catch jet ride home. Pelosi proud of me.

The most inane part of this whole thing is that the tribal people arrived in North America 15,000 years ago, at the end of a glacial period. From that perspective there has been global warming for the tribes for 15,000 years. As they are all still around I'd say they have a pretty good handle on how to survive without the help of BLM.

Oh oh looks like Elizabeth Warren is going to have to attend classes.

The Apaches, Cherokee, Waxhaws, etc., must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Teaching Native Americans to deal with climate change? I would just tell them to turn the air conditioning up a notch, that should solve the problem.

“I said you are a native dammit! Now act like one!”

Why stop with Native Americans?
Let's teach Eskimos to re-learn how to build igloos.
Why stop with humans?
Let's teach cranes to swallow.
Wolves to hunt in packs.
Russians to stop invading other countries.
(Sorry, Russians are human, not too sure about their leader, though.)

Virtually all of the land we occupy is conquered land. The early history of the human race is a story of migrations that pushed out the prior inhabitants (whose own migration had pushed out their predecessors) for a tract of land. The Australian abos and the Pacific islanders are the only actual indigenous people I can think of (even the Basques don't qualify, though they are pretty early).

The American Indians are the descendants of the Clovis people, who displaced earlier populations in the usual fashion: fought, acquired territory, interbred with survivors. Just like we did with the Neanderthal in Europe. My mitochondrial haplotype is U, which is from one of the earliest migrations to Europe. There are three thereafter before you even hit the Neolithic period...and then y'all can track the historical migrations from that point on in history books.

Are we attempting to find and give the pre-Clovis remnant populations victim payments? Are the Blackfeet trying to recompense the people they virtually exterminated when the took over their land?

We are wallowing in guilt because we have been taught that we are uniquely evil in this respect. We are not.

Jan

The scariest 10 words in history... "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."

paid in advance train wreck

What do they want these people living in tents and hunting for their own food? Wait...Never mind.

Another camouflaged cronyistic moocher money-grab....

I guess I'm a little unclear on this... do they think Native Americans are still out hunting bison on horseback with a bow & arrow?

Most of the tribes I know are just vacuuming up cash from the floor of their casinos and go to the grocery store, or maybe they own 100 acre ranches with a few plots of farmland or something for themselves.

You can't even make up stuff that would be funnier than the sad reality of Obummer's regime.

The indoctrination continues. Marxist never let up. They leave no stone unturned.

Does the BLM have legal standing over BIA?

I hate to say this, but it was *their* land, and it was looted from them. So in the current fashion of our dotgov, the looters are going to tell the residents how to manage their resources. Nothing's changed. Maybe to help defer winter heating costs, they'll distribute free blankets as well...

And, gee, I wonder why they're getting pushback from the natives...

I have two friends: one a PI who worked a lot of cases on a nearby reservation and another who is 1/4 Native American (Blackfoot, I think) who left his relatives on the reservation to seek a real life. Here are their perspectives on the current life of the Native American:

Want to know how they make a living? Many just wait until the road-building contracts come out. They sign up to work on the crews. They have to be taken, but are the laziest people on the crew. After one job, they go back to the reservation to drown themselves in the bottle until next year. Most of them are on reservations that get a huge payout every year from the Federal Government, so each gets an allotment of that payout and that's what they live on. Those reservations with casinos also make a killing off them, similarly distributing their non-taxed earnings to their tribe members. My friend was absolutely disgusted with that lifestyle so he left, went to college, got a degree, got married, has kids, and is leading a productive life. Booze is absolute anathema to him. Yet he gets petitioned by his family to send them money all the time.

The Reservation-bound Native American is truly one of the most pitiable of souls.

Headshake, shake, laugh, sides hurt.

Global warming hoaxers speak with forked tongue.

Wasn't it Reagan who said the the most frightening words in the English language were "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" ?

Follow the money.

why concentrate comments on the natives, but rather the absolute and I mean ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY shown by people employed by 0 in his administration of the country. treating the natives in this manner further isolates them from the rest of the population of the country. I thought 0 was an idiot now I know longer just think it as he continues to prove to me that he IS an idiot. like a drunk sailor spending money except the sailor is spending his own, not the politicians they spend ours. I would say give the Indians an education so they can join the rest of the country but what school would you send them to that has that ability, NONE. the country is living a bad joke.

Let's stipulate that some Native Americans would love to go back to living with nature. Don't those BLM desk jockeys think they know how to do that? Weren't they doing it when our ancestors arrived? Who do they think they are, trying to teach those people what they already know?

Kumbaya. Kumbaya. Aaaaaacccckkk!

Maybe just maybe another "Little Bighorn" is on the horizon. "Please Mr. Custer I don't wanna go".