Native Americans Want Their Land Back!


	Native Americans Want Their Land Back!

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6-24-2008 9:42 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/11c11067-bf71-498f-bad1-1b6333fed448/13632C9B-6422-4BC4-8E8E-8263EC03E632/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/06/oglala-sioux-tribe-may-reclaim-southern-half-badlands-national-park" href="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/06/oglala-sioux-tribe-may-reclaim-southern-half-badlands-national-park" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nationalparkstraveler.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/06/oglala-sioux-tribe-may-reclaim-southern-half-badlands-national-park"><DIV class="contenthead"><H2 class="pagetitle">Oglala Sioux Just Might Reclaim Southern Half of Badlands National Park</H2>			  			</DIV>
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<SPAN class="submitted">Posted June 24th, 2008 by <A title="View user profile." href="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/users/bob-janiskee">Bob Janiskee</A></SPAN></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/06/oglala-sioux-tribe-may-reclaim-southern-half-badlands-national-park"><P>One possible outcome of the process is that the <A class="bb-url" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oglala_Sioux">Oglala Sioux Tribe</A> (OST) might regain exclusive control of 133,000 acres of tribal land that was converted to military use during World War II, incorporated into the national park in the 1960s, and placed under joint management with the National Park Service 30 years ago. If this land were to be returned to the tribe and entirely removed from the national park, it would establish a major precedent.</p> <P>Native American interests are a hot button issue in the National Park System at the moment:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/06/oglala-sioux-tribe-may-reclaim-southern-half-badlands-national-park">There are other examples, but these suffice to illustrate that issues involving people descended from the original inhabitants of the land now in national park status affect the Park System on a geographically widespread basis, involve difficult political, cultural, and environmental questions, and have important implications</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13632C9B-6422-4BC4-8E8E-8263EC03E632/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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