Trump advisors aim to privatize oil-rich Indian reservations

[Bayard]

14. Wait a minute

"The 1887 General Allotment Act (or Dawes Act), a piece of legislation that was designed to assimilate American Indian people into white culture and was directly responsible for the loss of 90 million acres of Indian land—nearly two-thirds of the total Indian land base. The Act required tribally-held land to be divided among individual tribal members and the remaining “surplus” lands opened to white settlement. This division and alienation of Indian land and assets had devastating consequences for Indian people that still endure today." per, The Indian Land Tenure Foundation. And Wikipedia says,

"The name "reservation" comes from the conception of the Native American tribes as independent sovereigns at the time the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Thus, the early peace treaties (often signed under duress) in which Native American tribes surrendered large portions of land to the U.S. also designated parcels which the tribes, as sovereigns, "reserved" to themselves, and those parcels came to be called "reservations."[9] The term remained in use even after the federal government began to forcibly relocate tribes to parcels of land to which they had no historical connection."

So......how can the U.S. government still come in and take over these lands for corporate use? My understanding is that the BLM only "manages" the land, and its held in trust. What's in the fine print? Anyone know for sure? And with the attention and support Standing Rock is finally getting, do the powers that be really want that kind of protest across the country? The U.S. government has already stolen enough Native American land, and now they want to trot out Manifest Destiny to forcibly take the little bit left?