The BIA sold Mdewakanton land rights for $178 with no local benefit

Evidence

Ironically, although the plant produces an estimated 15 percent of Minnesota’s power, not a watt of it goes to the Mdewakanton community. While the city negotiated a deal that included tax benefits and other income from the plant, the neighboring Mdewakantons couldn’t even afford to hire an attorney to help decipher the contracts. The Bureau of Indian Affairs negotiated on behalf of the Mdewakantons, selling right of way along the only road running through the reservation for 178, with neither a discount on the plant's power nor a portion of the 20 million the plant would pay in property taxes to Red Wing. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 554

Categorization

• XREF: Direct continuation of the Johnson v. M’Intosh doctrine-of-discovery trust relationship — federal trust responsibility as negotiated for tribes relates to the Legal Systems land-rights course and the ch8 judge ruling that Canadian title rested on a 17th-century fiction. — connects to: Federal Indian coal leases paid pennies per ton on coal worth dollars — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 440
• SEED: Strong example for a polyad essay on how fiduciary trust responsibility functions practically — the BIA acting as tribe’s trustee selling its only road right-of-way for $178.
• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘Grafting & Growth’ only loosely, but squarely supports an eco-justice land/place through-line: the siting of a nuclear plant within yards of a 2,000-year-old burial and village.