From: The NY Times
By DEBORAH SONTAG and BRENT McDONALD
December 28, 2014
FORT BERTHOLD INDIAN RESERVATION, N.D. — Tex G. Hall,
the three-term tribal chairman on this remote, once impoverished
reservation, was the very picture of confidence as he strode to the
lectern at his third Annual Bakken Oil and Gas Expo and gazed out over a
stuffed, backlit mountain lion.
Tall and
imposing beneath his black cowboy hat, he faced an audience of political
and industry leaders lured from far and wide to the “Texpo,” as some
here called it. It was late April at the 4 Bears Casino, and the
outsiders endorsed his strong advocacy for oil development and the way he framed it as mutually beneficial for the industry and the reservation: “sovereignty by the barrel.”
“M.H.A.
Nation is No. 1 for tribal oil produced on American soil in the United
States right now currently today,” Mr. Hall proudly declared, referring
to the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. MORE
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