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Obama Administration Overrides Congress By Giving Wyoming Town Over To Indian Tribe [message #218581] Fri, 10 January 2014 17:00
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President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently overrode Congress by declaring a Wyoming town called Riverton a part of the Wind River Indian Reservation.

The EPA made the decision last month along with the Department of Interior and the Department of Justice -- it has angered many of Riverton's citizens. Gov. Matt Mead said that by declaring Riverton was a part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, government agencies violated tribal boundaries set by Congress in 1905. He said, "My deep concern is about an administrative agency of the federal government altering a state's boundary and going against over 100 years of history and law. This should be a concern to all citizens because, if the EPA can unilaterally take land away from a state, where will it stop?"

The San Francisco Gate reported, "The EPA addressed the reservation boundary issue in its decision last month that granted an application from the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. The tribes had applied to have the reservation treated as a separate state under the federal Clean Air Act."

Full article: http://benswann.com/obama-administration-overrides-congress- by-giving-wyoming-town-over-to-indian-tribe/


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