Word: tallchief
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...Park Service now faces similar obstacles in Oklahoma. The Osage Indians, who own the mineral rights in Osage County (where some 15,000 wells produce 22,000 bbl. of oil a day), oppose the establishment of a park. Says George Tallchief, principal chief of the tribe: "It will make it prohibitive for independent oil producers to come in and drill." Local ranching interests are also unhappy about losing valuable grazing land, which they insist is already in good hands. "This is my heritage here," says Rancher Mark Freeman Jr. "Who in the hell do you think has kept this prairie...