tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post3962747928944325115..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Tribe may seize Wounded KneeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-88278571791326826452013-06-09T11:53:40.122-07:002013-06-09T11:53:40.122-07:00For more on the subject, see:
http://rezbomb.com/...For more on the subject, see:<br /><br />http://rezbomb.com/blog/?p=691<br /><br /><b>The sale of the land at Wounded Knee and why everyone took the bait<br /><br />By Steven Lewis Simpson</b><br /><br />As the deadline loomed I started emailing many people in the tribal administration on Pine Ridge from the President and Vice President to others in political and influential life there that they should go on the offensive with an eminent domain action to see if that could get traction but also and perhaps more decisively with a proclamation that no business licenses would be issued to anyone for that land, thus rendering the land valueless and making any purchase, pointless.<br /><br />Interestingly a few days later reports start appearing in the media that both actions were being pursued. I have no idea if this is as a response to my correspondence or just coincidence but what is most important is that the tribe started enforcing its sovereignty more around the issue.<br /><br />I think at the end of the day it is interesting to see how people got swept up so much in the rumor (a horse slaughterhouse being put there was one) and not just looking at the bare facts and motivations. The land under his ownership has laid there unmolested for 40 years. To think it would have millions of dollars of value in the open market when unused by him through this time would be preposterous. I am sure this will probably just slip away as a little footnote of a man trying to grab the headlines and manipulate truly sacred land.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-82472195639093339672013-05-31T07:52:43.362-07:002013-05-31T07:52:43.362-07:00Such a seizure would likely become a huge event, a...Such a seizure would likely become a huge event, and would draw "Idle no More" and similar protesters from all over.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.com