On the same week that Indian protestors were removed from a peaceful anti-pipeline protest in North Dakota, the armed antigovernment protestors led by Ammon and Byan Bundy were acquitted of federal conspiracy and weapons charges. The Bundy Brothers and their armed supporters took over a federally owned wildlife sanctuary in Oregon last winter. The Indians, unarmed, blocked the route of the pipeline.
My takeaway from this is that if you are white and wear a cowboy hat, you are one of the good guys. If you are an Indian and you are trying to protect your tribal lands and water supply, you lose.
Little has changed in the last 200 years.
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