HOW FEDERAL RECOGNITION REALLY WORKS -
DEPT OF INTERIOR CAN DO ANYTHING IT WANTS!
April 3, 2006 By Jodi Rave of the Missoulian
PORTLAND, Ore. - Harrison Tsosie of the Navajo Nation doesn't like Washington bureaucrats telling the tribe how to manage 15 million acres of tribal land held in trust by the federal government.
And now a new federal law and proposed Interior Department policies are changing all the rules governing 56 million acres of trust lands around the country.
"The big concern of the Navajos is this notion the federal government holds land in trust," said Tsosie, Navajo Nation deputy attorney general.
"It provides an opportunity for the federal government to have pervasive control over all activities within the Navajo Nation."
Tsosie arrived in Portland with about 200 other tribal representatives from the western half of the United States on Wednesday to attend an all-day comment session with Interior Department staff members.
The task at hand - Try to understand the complex, sweeping list of proposed regulatory changes about to dramatically alter the landscape of trust fund management....
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