Tribes seek U.S. help to curb Canadian mining threats to Northwestern states
Indigenous leaders from the Northwest renewed for the federal government to pressure Canada to stop additional mining activity in British Columbia, which they say contaminates waters and threatens Native American ways of life in Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Above, a screenshot of a report on the Provincial Overview of Exploration and Mining in British Columbia, 2021.
Indigenous leaders from the Northwest renewed their call this week for the federal government to pressure Canada to stop additional mining activity in British Columbia, which they say contaminates waters and threatens Native American ways of life in Alaska, Montana and Idaho.
As British Columbia plans to expand its profitable coal, copper and gold mining industry, Indigenous representatives met in Washington, D...
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