- Target:
- Native American
- Region:
- United States of America
1) ISSUE: The BIA excluded any individual tribal landowners from the 'Work Group' that drafted these weak laws which apply DIRECTLY to the lands of individual tribal land owners.
2) ISSUE: The BIA is proposing the weakest notification efforts will be provided to individual tribal members concerning BIA decision-making on ROW's across allottee lands - while at the same time - making it mandatory that the BIA must send a certified letter to the oil companies/industry when the BIA decides on a ROW across any individual allottee lands.
3) ISSUE: The BIA is proposing that their office - and NOT the individual tribal landowners - will make the decision on industry rights-a-way (Example: hazardous pipelines) - across certain fractionated allottee lands.
4) ISSUE: The BIA proposes that either party - meaning the industry - can request the ROW be under state jurisdiction. If the land owner doesn't read or understand the fine print on rights-of-way documents - or the BIA approves their ROW for them - their ROW land may come under the jurisdiction of the state.
We, the citizens of the United States of America and tribal enrolled members of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people, petition the US Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) concerning Regulations for Rights of Way, 25 CFR 169.
We Petition the BIA for better trust responsibility, stewardship and Allottee input of Regulations for Rights of Way, 25 CFR 169. Improve the tribal right-of-ways for the better health and welfare of Native American lands and trust responsibility to the Allottee and their heirs.
Improve the tribal right-of-ways for the better health and welfare of Native Americans.
1. Tribal landowners must be active participants in the BIA Work Group NOW and until, these federal regs are finalized.
2. BIA must be required to provide DIRECT notification to individual tribal members via a certified letter about the BIA's decision-making concerning their lands.
3. Self-determination applies to the individual tribal landowner as well as any tribal council. Rather than take away this right and responsibility from individual tribal landowners, the BIA has a trust responsibility to assure ALL tribal landowners make INFORMED decisions on ALL rights-of-way across their own lands.
4. We oppose this attempt of the BIA trying to reduce BIA trust responsibilities to individual tribal lands.
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The Rights of Way, 25 CFR 169. 13 petition to Native American was written by Clarine Linseth and is in the category Local Government at GoPetition.