Native Americans To Oregon Militants: Get The Hell Off ‘Our Land

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Native Americans To Oregon Militants: Get The Hell Off ‘Our Land’

http://www.mtv.com/news/2723580/burns-paiute-tribe-leaders-address-oregon-bundy-militants-land-ownership/
'They just need to get the hell out of here,' one tribal leader said.
by 
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marusic 23h ago

The Burns Paiute Tribe has inhabited Oregon for 
<http://www.mtv.com/news/2723580/burns-paiute-tribe-leaders-address-oregon-bundy-militants-land-ownership/http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/burns_piaute_tribe_militants_s.html#incart_river_home>6,000 
years. Including the part of Oregon located 
inside the Malheur National Wildlife refuge, 
where armed white militants are currently engaged 
in 
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standoff with the federal government over the 
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of the federally-controlled land they’re holding 
hostage. The tribe has a few thoughts about that.

“They just need to get the hell out of here,” 
Jarvis Kennedy, a member of the tribal council, 
<http://www.mtv.com/news/2723580/burns-paiute-tribe-leaders-address-oregon-bundy-militants-land-ownership/http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/burns_piaute_tribe_militants_s.html#incart_river_home>said 
in a press conference on Wednesday, according to 
a 
<http://www.mtv.com/news/2723580/burns-paiute-tribe-leaders-address-oregon-bundy-militants-land-ownership/http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/burns_piaute_tribe_militants_s.html#incart_river_home>report 
from The Oregonian. “They didn’t ask anybody, we 
don’t want them here
our little kids are sitting 
at home when they should be in school.”

The Oregonian explains that “the tribe once 
occupied a large swath of land that includes the 
Malheur National Wildlife refuge,” which they 
used as a wintering ground until they were forced 
out by white settlers in the 1870s. Now, about 
200 people live in the Burns Paiute Reservation, 
which is 30 miles away from Malheur National 
Wildlife Refuge headquarters. The tribe works 
with the federal government to preserve important 
archaeological sites on the reserve, which they 
worry could be damaged by the militants.

“We never gave up our aboriginal rights to the 
territory, so we as a tribe actually view this as 
our land, no matter who is living on it,” 
<http://www.mtv.com/news/2723580/burns-paiute-tribe-leaders-address-oregon-bundy-militants-land-ownership/http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/06/3736709/burns-tribe-protest/>said 
Charlotte Rodrique, a tribal chair. “Armed protesters don’t belong here.”

Although the tribe indicated that it was 
satisfied with the federal government’s response 
to the militants so far, some members couldn’t 
help but wonder whether Native Americans would 
receive the same kind of treatment if they were 
ever to assert their actual rights to the land using similar tactics.

“I wonder if it was bunch of natives that went 
out there and overtook that, or any federal 
land,” Jarvis Kennedy said. “Would they let us 
come into town and get supplies and re-up?”
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