After speaking in the Illinois Congress Hall in Springfield, Illinois, President Obama announced an executive order giving Native Americans half of all Federal lands.
“Native-Americans has been persecuted for far too long,” Obama told a group of Blackhawks in Northern Illinois. “We have broken many agreements over the past 250 years, and the executive order is a signal that the United States government will begin to do the right thing, and give back the land you have been owed for more than a century.”
Nearly half of all federal land will be broken up between twenty-eight different tribes from Pennsylvania to California. Much of the western United States is used for grazing by farmers. Tribes will be able to charge market price for use of the land. They will also be able to excavate for natural resources such as ore, oil, or other precious minerals. Gambling will be allowed in States where the activity is already permitted.
The 300 million acres being given back to Native Americans is worth an estimated $450 billion dollars.
The Bundys Strike Back
The Bundy family have been involved in several standoffs and shootouts over the past decade over the use of federal land. The notion President Barack Hussein Obama is giving the land to Native American tribes is too much for them to handle emotionally.
“Obama is giving our land back to the Indians!” Cliven Bundy stated before fellow supporters. “The no good negro has gone too far this time. That’s our land. We fought and won it fair and square. Now I have to pay some ‘redskin’ to graze my cattle and support my business? That’s the most un-American thing ever.”
The Bundys are still recuperating from the standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge that left one dead and two other family members imprisoned on charges of arson.
“By golly, when we rest up, we are going to do something about this gross injustice,” said Bundy. “Those Indians will take worse care of the land than the government. You know all the Indians are drunks and drug addicts who can’t read or write good? Maybe a thousand years ago they could farm, but now most of them don’t work, or they run a casino. There is not a middle. I can’t believe I have to give my money to these drunks. If they want their money, they’ll have to come fight me with their tomahawks and feathers.”
