After growing up in Wyoming and getting his law degree in Laramie Pendley was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Minerals at the Department of the Interior in the Reagan Cabinet but was reassigned in 1984 after underpricing coal mining leases in the Powder River Basin. He is a vocal propagandist in the Sagebrush Rebellion that calls for the seizures of tribal lands and even penned an essay for Hillsdale College. Many catholic schools are in the Hillsdale bubble because the curriculum ignores the church’s role in the Native American Genocide.
In 2020 Montana Governor Steve Bullock even sued to have Pendley removed. Morale at the Bureau of Land Management within the DoI cratered under the Trump Organization so Santa Fe-based Wild Earth Guardians joined other interested parties in suing the BLM to stop oil and gas encroachment on Chaco Culture National Historic Park.
Pendley authored the Project 2025 section on the Department of the Interior and says a future conservative administration should abandon the withdrawal of lands from leasing in the Chaco buffer zone.
Project 2025 further calls for a conservative administration to work with Native American tribes to develop energy resources on reservations. The Navajo and Pueblo people live with the legacy of extraction, including the impacts of uranium mining. Sacred lands are dotted with abandoned mines and oil wells. The Native people who worked in uranium mines were not told about the dangers until it was too late. Cancer rates soared because of this legacy. [Chaco Canyon buffer zone in the crossfires of Project 2025]Learn more about Tim Sheehy's hatred for American Indians linked here.
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