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Reply With QuoteWhoopie freakin do. When we get the land my people were "humanely moved" back from I'll worry about theirs.Originally Posted by Sunshine
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President
Wow. BP has really bitten off more than they can chew now!
More here: Oil spill threatens Native American land - CNN.comThursday at 8 p.m. ET on CNN.
Pointe Aux Chenes, Louisiana (CNN) -- The marshes here have long been a refuge for the Native Americans living in Louisiana's bayou.
"We came to live here because it was marshland, where nobody else wanted to live," said Chuckie Verdin, the chairman of the Pointe Aux Chenes Indian Tribe.
The tribe is made up of about 700 members whose ancestors were forced from their lands and resettled to Louisiana more than 100 years ago.
That refuge, already strained from coastal erosion, is facing a new menace: the oil spill spreading uncontrollably across the Gulf of Mexico.
Chuckie Verdin looks at sacred tribal burial grounds. The tribe is trying to protect the area from the invading oil.On Saturday, the same day that the state closed fishing in the area, Verdin addressed some of the tribal members in the town's cinder block church.
Before the tribal meeting, the members recite a prayer in a French dialect, a language picked up by their ancestors from European settlers generations ago.
Several men have come directly from hauling in the last catch of shrimp and blue crab. They sit in the pews still wearing their calf-length rubber fishing boots.
Verdin, a veteran fisherman and oil rig worker, doesn't downplay the threat growing just a few miles away.
"This could be the end of our way of life," Verdin tells the crowd from the altar.
Secretary of State
Whoopie freakin do. When we get the land my people were "humanely moved" back from I'll worry about theirs.
A is A
President
now they are fuckin done, theys messin' with a special interest.time for the lawyers to parachute in....oh wait...
Proud Virginian Administrator!
BP should send them a bunch of blankets to help clean up any oil. It would be an excellent PR move.
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President
This goes in the "big freakin deal" can.
You are the one person in this world who will live according to the choices you make. Live life like there is a tomorrow.
President
nice.
President
Oh come on, folks! These poor ole red men settled for a swamp and now they don't even have that! Where's the ire? Where's the indignation?
Speaker of the House
At least they got a swamp for a hundred years. The demise of much of my people, the Blackfoot, was not so rosy.
...We've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to 57 states. I think one left to go. - Barry Obama
Secretary of State
Mine, the Cherokee was not pleasant either. I get to drive past a road periodically mine were marched down to their deaths as a reminder.
A is A
Secretary of Defense
hell I live next door to the Cherokee nation, and I am a half breed, don't expect white people to give a damn.
to live is to suffer-Fritz lang
Speaker of the House
Whats the other half?
...We've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to 57 states. I think one left to go. - Barry Obama
Cher.
Speaker of the House
I take it you are in Oklahoma?
...We've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to 57 states. I think one left to go. - Barry Obama
President
Wonder if some Irish people's land were affected?
You are the one person in this world who will live according to the choices you make. Live life like there is a tomorrow.
Speaker of the House
Sorry, not applicable of sympathy. Lacking accepted levels of either pheomelanin or eumelanin. Come on now, you know the rules of victimology.
...We've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to 57 states. I think one left to go. - Barry Obama
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