>>665001>At the Refuge, we received a petition of grievances from the group, which is a right guaranteed to citizens under the First Amendment. They believed their grievances have been and still are being ignored.And people wonder why the Second Amendment comes right after the First. There is similar language in the Declaration of Independence, which provides context for this sort of thing.
For some perspective, we need to revisit the story of the Mary and Carrie Dann (pic related), Native American women who made the more defensible claim that they had the right to graze their livestock on land that, according to broken treaties, was theirs and the rest of their tribe's. Most of the State of Nevada actually belongs to the Indians, and it has been argued that the Bundys ought to have paid their grazing fees to the real landlord, the Western Shoshone people.
They got the same shitty treatment from the Feds, as usual...
>Since 1973, the Dann sisters conducted civil protest by ranching and refusing to pay grazing fees to BLM to run their cattle on what they consider Shoshone land.[4] They contended the US had taken the land illegally and not abided by the terms of its treaty. In 1982 some tribal members organized the Western Shoshone National Council as a governmental group; they elected Raymond Yowell as chief. It is an alternative to what they call the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) governments of the Duckwater and Yomba reservations, which are federally recognized tribes. Yowell has worked to ensure the tribes do not accept the settlement money (up to $100 million in 1998) because that would extinguish their claims to their former territory.[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Dann_and_Carrie_DannLater we learn that there's gold in them there hills, which is why the government needs to get people and their activities off the surface.
Tl;dr, watch this documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfIF8knQK0c 