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Federal trust relationship with American Indians

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

<html><head></head><body> More than four years after Royal Dutch Shell paid $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea, a company vessel on Sunday morning sent a drill bit into the ocean floor, beginning preliminary work on an exploratory well 70 miles off the northwest coast of Alaska. <a target="blank" href="http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/244627/">read more</a>
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More than four years after Royal Dutch Shell paid $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea, a company vessel on Sunday morning sent a drill bit into the ocean floor, beginning preliminary work on an exploratory well 70 miles off the northwest coast of Alaska. <a target="blank" href="http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/244627/">read more</a>

Shell begins exploratory drilling off northwest Alaska coast in hopes of tapping into 26B-barrel oil field