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re: Mt. McKinley no longer tallest Mountain in North America???
Posted on 8/31/15 at 9:11 am to madmaxvol
Posted on 8/31/15 at 9:11 am to madmaxvol
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It is the latest bid by the president to fulfill his 2008 campaign promise to improve relations between the federal government and the nation’s Native American tribes, an important political constituency that has a long history of grievances against the government.
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Mr. Obama’s trip there starting on Monday will be his first major visit to the state, and he will become the first sitting American president to visit the Alaskan Arctic.
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Mr. Obama has stepped up his engagement with Native Americans since June last year, when he visited Cannon Ball, N.D., in the ancestral lands of Chief Sitting Bull and took part in a powwow to honor American Indians who have served in America’s foreign wars. That was the first visit by a sitting president in 15 years to land under tribal jurisdiction.
“There’s no denying that for some Americans, the deck’s been stacked against them, sometimes for generations, and that’s been true of many Native Americans,” Mr. Obama said at the time. “But if we’re working together, we can make things better.”
Posted on 8/31/15 at 9:56 am to hawgfaninc
Obama fighting climate change by burning up a load of fossil fuels for some photo ops.
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