I read that the U.S. has never honored any treaty ever made with American Indians. I don’t whether that is true or not, but I do know that Indians have been shunted to land that the U.S. government thought was worthless. If that land later turned out to be valuable, it was taken anyway.
We saw that with the Dakota Access pipeline. We are seeing it again with Bears Ears, land sacred to a number of Indian tribes. That part of Utah may have petroleum or valuable minerals. White people want it. Trump has shrunk Bears Ears from 1.35 million acres to 201,876 acres. That is less than 1/5 what President Obama set aside.
After all, they are only Indians.
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