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Related: About this forumOrin Hatch says the Indians should just take my word for it on sacred triballands
Speaking alongside Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke about the Trump administrations order to review and potentially shrink or eliminate nearly 30 national monuments, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said Native Americans were manipulated into their support for the 1.35 million acre Bears Ears National Monument southeastern Utah.
The Indians, they dont fully understand that a lot of the things that they currently take for granted on those lands, they wont be able to do if its made clearly into a monument or a wilderness, Hatch said on Sunday. Once you put a monument there, you do restrict a lot of things that could be done, and that includes use of the land
Just take my word for it.
Hatchs dismissal of native voices is not only condescending, it is incredibly inaccurate in the case of Bears Ears. Protections for Bears Ears were nearly 80 years in the making. Most recently, the Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition, which brought together five tribal nations, pushed for the protection of the Bears Ears region. After the group received no substantial response from the Utah Congressional delegation about protecting the area, the group opted to propose that President Barack Obama should create a national monument, which he did in December 2016.
Hatchs comments come amid Zinkes trip to Utah where he will conduct a review of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments and provide recommendations to shrink or rescind the monuments. Native American tribes, who consider Bears Ears to be their sacred ancestral land, are well aware of what the monuments creation entails and consider the national monument review to be an attack on those lands.
https://thinkprogress.org/orrin-hatch-says-tribes-dont-understand-ancestral-lands-34d19c1a563d
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)Taking the word of a white man worked out so well for them.
Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)dhill926
(16,337 posts)catbyte
(34,383 posts)And p.s.
brer cat
(24,565 posts)"Just take my word for it." What an arrogant ass.
Says similar shit.
"Trust me"
" I guarantee it"
Sales slickness of OLD (geezers).
Those phrases and Hatch's are BIG RED FLAGS for me. Duh!
They are so condescending with anyone other than rich white males.