The left certainly can’t have those lowly Indian savages be self-reliant now can they?

Members of the Navajo Nation in southwestern U.S. say the federal government is leaving their people behind with its energy policies, crippling their economy and leaving more people in poverty.

Republicans on the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are attempting to overturn such Biden administration policies, including the Department of Interior’s land withdrawal and ban on oil and gas leasing outside of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, where members of the Navajo tribe reside.

The DOI issued a Public Land Order in June imposing a 10-mile buffer zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park for the next 20 years. The prevention of oil and natural gas leasing within the zone would cause Navajo mineral owners to lose an estimated $194.3 million in revenue over the next 20 years.

More than 5,000 Navajo mineral owners rely on income from energy development. The individuals are called Navajo allottees, as the minerals they own were allotted to their ancestors many years ago.

Instead of allowing them to have some semblance of self-reliance, instead Democrats lavish funds on agencies like the Bureau of Indian Affairs which is notoriously corrupt and doles out subsidies like candy to Native American tribes that keeps tribal Indians poor.

Politicians, like AOC, justify continuing the corrupt agencies foolishness saying the Navajos were hostages in an economic situation and, instead, money should be invested in the communities and transition away from reliance on extracting oil and gas on their land that has belonged to them for generations. But, like typical ideologues, leftists ignore the wants or needs of Native Americans and want to impose solutions that match their ideology rather than reality while the politicians go back to their fossil fuel-powered homes leaving Navajo Indian tribes destitute.

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