Fight Pipeline, Drill for Oil: Either Way, Tribes Want Control of Their Lands
- Southern Utes seek to break U.S. shackles on tribal land use
- With 1,600 wells drilled, tribe is one of America’s richest
In this Jan. 22, 2010 photo, antelope graze not far from gas drilling rigs in western Wyoming's Upper Green River Basin.
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The Southern Ute Indian Tribe of southwestern Colorado has a higher long-term credit rating than Wells Fargo & Co., and more oil and natural-gas wells than it has members.
Welcome to the other side of the tribal land energy conundrum.