I think some environmentalists opposing fossil fuel export on the Salish Sea believe that Coast Salish tribes will be able to defeat Wall Street in this battle. I would not place much confidence in that assumption.

In addition to the Citizens Equal Rights Alliance/Tea Party anti-Indian campaign, federal departments — especially Interior, Treasury and Commerce — under Obama have intensified the attack against tribal jurisdiction. Given the make up of Congress and Obama’s commitment to Wall Street, tribal opposition to fossil fuel export could — like tribal sovereignty itself — be extinguished with the stroke of a pen. →