My great-great-grandmother, Lillie Green, was a full-blooded Choctaw. Her legacy is something I carry with pride, a connection to this land that predates the bureaucracy that now controls all of us. But today, in Washington State, that heritage feels less like a shared history and more like a bureaucratic weapon wielded by a select few. We are witnessing a troubling shift where the preservation of history has morphed into a financial shakedown, and Washington’s State Environmental Policy Act, or SEPA, has become the hammer used to enforce it.… read more “SEPA Archaeological Survey Scam”