Well if we start selling licenses and punch cards for oil drilling around here I'd be saying the same thing. Maybe if the tribes can trump up some new angle they could sue for 50% of the oil and gas and then maybe the air we breathe too.

It is an interesting concept to think about though...who owns all the natural resources? Easy answer on private property but not so easy when we allow harvest of natural resources by a tiny minority so they can sell the resource and make a profit. Other things like oil and gas and timber and even geoduck are auctioned off with the proceeds from the high bidder going to the public....too bad it goes to the government so it can be wasted. When it comes to the tribes they are now getting 50% of our natural resources off reservation property ...No new news here but what is left for the rest of us is being sold for next to nothing to a tiny number of diehards in a dying industry. Maybe we should study what happened to the buffalo.