My point being while there are critical minerals in this location, how do you balance and weigh water supplies, endangered species, cultural heritage, tribal consultation, and executing our trust responsibility to tribes?
Grijalva emphasizes the need to consider various factors in mining project approvals.
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To me, the people, the first people of this country, the Native Americans, we are second-class citizens still.
to merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.
This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities.
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