Reply #40: Re: Bush and South Dakota Native Americans

[ebw]

The odd thing is, both Carter Camp and I are several people's regular copy-ins.

So, was the Wicone a good project (several possible POV possible)?

"Where they put in the Wicone project, the pig farm was already on it. Millions of dollars worth of infrastructure, and at the end of each pipe was a proposed pig farm. That guy had millions of gallons of Mni Wiconi water promised to him," explains Carter Camp, of CARC.

The Rosebud Tribal Council was wooed by the pig farmers, cached away in secrecy, having signed confidentiality agreements with the corporation.

This is an untidy excerpt from one of Wiwona LaDuke's pieces.

Western water law is wicked subtle, and I can think of only a handfull of practioners I'd refered to a client Tribe.

What I do see in this attempt to use a complex problem in a naive way, is one band-o-whites bonking another band-o-whites over the head with a bound-and-gaged-indian, and making the claim that this is good for the indian. Like the arguement on Kos that the Cobell extension was wicked Repug-ism, missing the larger Constitutional and process issues.