Tribal Abuse Follow-Up
Writing commentary, I knock out a column on something that catches my attention and then move on. Occasionally those past columns slip my mind and then I’ll see something in the paper and have a ‘holy cow’ moment. Such a moment occurred recently when I caught Evelyn Nieves excellent article about Judge Royce Lamberth’s scorching indictment of the Interior Department in its treatment of Indians. The dust had hardly settled on my commentary, Indian Abuse Comes Home to Roost.
Royce ordered the Interior Department to include notices in its various correspondences with Indian tribes that the government’s information ‘may not be credible.’ That, of course, is the textbook definition of incredible; something that is not credible. We kid and joke and commiserate about our government not being credible, but it’s usually just partisan comment bitching about Democrats or Republicans up to their evil doings. It’s pretty sobering to hear from a U.S. District Court judge that our government is …