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Gwich'in to Drill?
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10 Dec 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Gwich'in to Drill? Some tribes and lawmakers are criticizing environmental groups for continuing to represent Native Americans in a simplistic, self-serving way as model caretakers of the Earth. David Lester, a Creek Indian and executive director of the Council of Energy Resources Tribes, says, "Environmentalists are using the Indians the way the French and English used Indians in the French ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Canada, energy, green living, mining and drilling (all these topics) |
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