Raúl Grijalva: “If we are to effectively address those issues, we need to speak frankly about the record as it stands today.”

We cannot have meaningful tribal consultations as long as the mining industry has the automatic right to mine wherever they stake a claim.

USET SPF supports the efforts of Tribal Nations to exercise our sovereignty and self-determination to create viable and sustainable economic opportunities and job creation for our communities.

This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities.

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.