Friday, April 06, 2007
Politics of Land and Bigotry
Associate Professor Robert Miller of Lewis and Clark Law School writes in Indian Country Today that for the second year in a row the Bush administration is attempting to kill Indian Health Care funding as part of an overall strategy to terminate US trust responsibilities to Indian tribes. In light of revelations of White House/Department of Justice collusion in covering up the Indian Trust Fund fraud in Land and Mineral Leasing Management at the Department of Interior, this current campaign to renege on long-standing federal treaty obligations revitalizes the Anti-Indian Movement initially funded by resource extraction industries.
