... pressure placed upon it by the mining industry, the United States Congress passed the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. "Under the guise of support for the ideal of self-determination , tribes were encouraged and pressured to establish electoral, representative' governments that mining companies and the BIA could more easily ... . The coal that is mined via strip mining necessitates the bulldozing of hogans, pastoral land and any agriculturally usable soil. When the land has been reclaimed (replanted) it is done with winter rye grass and not any of the indigenous plant life necessary for f...

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