He told the Crow Nation during his campaign "You will be on my mind every day I am in the White House."
The President's words apparently didn't get to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and the U. S. Forest Service.
Presidents Obama's Native American policy statement before his election read: "Native American sacred places and site-specific ceremonies are under threat from development, pollution, and vandalism. Barack Obama supports legal protections for sacred places and cultural traditions, including Native ancestors' burial grounds and churches."
President Obama can still avert another injustice to our brothers and sisters of the First Nations. Or will his words be remembered like the empty promises of President Andrew Jackson prior to Trail of Tears - "as long as grass grows, as long as water flows?"
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