Omitting Indigenous Emissions
To avoid racist perceptions and connotations in sports the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) became the Washington Commanders, while the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB) became the Cleveland Guardians. The Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Chiefs are musing over their respective monikers as well, but the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League (NHL) remain steadfast, with reasoning and stated justification, in their longtime team designation.
However, in the Whitehouse, there appear to be some improvements required in race relations with North America’s indigenous people. With every agency and department sequestered to combat climate change, at every opportunity, it would seem the native populations are crying foul.
Problematic is Biden’s blockage of fossil-fuel extraction which is affecting operations occurring on indigenous lands and protected reservations. All over America native tribes are combating and challenging the administration with respect to ancestral land rights relative to the extraction of gas and oil and the mining of coal.
Sustaining the lives and livelihoods of indigenous populations, many of these natural resources are being blocked by an overzealous government. While continually articulating support and encouragement for tribal sovereignty, the government duplicitously impedes in native production of fossil fuels.
According to the linked Fox story, “Roughly 20% of the nation's total oil and natural gas reserves, 30% of domestic coal reserves west of the Mississippi River and additional natural minerals - are on Native American lands.” So relative to the matter at hand, the resources and money available to the varying native tribes are substantial. The article further outlines the vast number of tribes and people represented in this battle with the federal government.
Then, to further obstruct natural resource operations, the administration establishes strict, costly, and cumbersome emission standards to prevent profitable production. Regarding impedance by the federal administration, Conrad Stewart, the director of energy and water for the Crow Nation of Montana says, "What I don't understand is why they bring in foreign oil and gas resources from someplace else that has regulation that we would not stand for here in the United States. Then, they turn around and point fingers at the Native Americans and they say, ‘your resources are too dirty.’"
To battle racism, even where it does not exist, the progressive movement employs abstract actions like changing words to a more soothing or tolerant sound, as well as using policies that reflect woke DIE (diversity, inclusion, and equity) guidelines. Where it really matters and affects the actual and material lives of people, callousness, like that in this article, often erupts.
While I am absolutely certain no radio station, certainly no woke disc jockey would ever play the 1969 hit song by the musical group 1910 Fruitgum Company called, “Indian Giver”, the connotation or meaning from those times, a day when certain things did not instantaneously offend somebody, can now be applied, literally, to the Biden Administration.
Nothing hampers or hinders the socialist political trek toward permanent power using anthropogenic climate change as a conduit. Hindrance by anyone or anything is not tolerated.