The chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa asked lawmakers from oil-rich North Dakota on Thursday to support job training to help lower the high rate of unemployment on the state’s reservations.Job training he won't accept, apparently, is job training in the oil and gas industry.
Flashback: Turtle Mountain tribal council bans fracking, November 21, 2012.
An alert reader caught that. The Bismarck Tribune did not mention it. Hmmm.
Color me cynical.
Actions have consequences. I wonder if any state legislator will dare confront the Turtle Mountain tribal chief on this bit of hypocrisy. It probably would not be politically correct. Folks in Williston, Dickinson, Watford City paying a huge price for oil development, and now the Turtle Mountain folks think they should share.
Speaking of which, there's a great book at Amazon the tribal leaders could have their pre-schoolers read: Little Red Hen; only $3.99.
