04/17/2023
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"You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year."
"To me, the people, the first people of this country, the Native Americans, we are second-class citizens still."
"This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities."
"We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse."