"It goes deeper...like an oilwell!"

Not since small pox blankets, have we treated our Native Americans this badly. MB from Wampum is the Indian Affairs expert of the blogdom and has put together a horrifying puzzle that reveals a sordid scandal so complicated it's difficult to say where it begins and if it will ever end.

We're talking about Native Americans being screwed out of $150 billion in payments by oil and gas, mining and forestry industries for the leasing of Indian Trust Fund lands and other federal properties. MB manages to extract a comprehensible linear story line out of this morass of corruption and finds Abramoff smack in the middle of a slush fund created solely to prevent these industries from having to disclose their books.

Our government thugs are actively protecting the industries' interests in this one, in order that the companies can avoid paying back the funds they essentially stole from the Indian Trust. If they are not held accountable, it will be the taxpayer that will repay this debt, as it's already mandated by the courts to be remedied.

This, like Abramoff's ties to the Northern Mariana Islands, is being ignored by the Big Daddy press. If you've got a blog, pass it on before they leave us holding the tab - again.