Right Wing Militias

Native Americans to Bundy Militiamen: Get The Hell Out

You could say members of the local Native American Paiute tribe are less than impressed by the Oregon militiamen who've occupied an empty bird-watching sanctuary.

"As a Native, if we were to go out there and fight back like they are, we would have been dead by now," said Carla Teeman, a social services assistant at the tribe.

"They are desecrating one of our sacred traditional cultural properties," said Charlotte Rodrique, the tribal chair. "They are endangering our children and the safety of our community."

She's not wrong. If the buffoons who've occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge were anything but white men, they would have been gunned down by now.

The tribe is also upset because the militia's activities prompted the closure of local schools and their children are stuck at home.

"They just need to get the hell out of here," said Jarvis Kennedy, a member of the tribal council. "They didn't ask anybody, we don't want them here...our little kids are sitting at home when they should be in school."

The land surrounding the Malheur National Wildlife refuge belonged to the Paiute tribe before white settlers arrived in the 1870s.

The Bundy militia would have you believe the land belongs to the white ranchers who recently turned themselves in to begin serving prison sentences for burning the land.

As of today the land belongs to the federal government, but the Paiute tribe works with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to preserve tribal archaeological sites; sites that could be endangered by insurrectionist white yokels who've demanded control of the land.