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TPM: “Report: Trump Told Tribal Leaders To ‘Just Do It’ And Ignore Drilling Laws”

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Here.

NPR: “Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Faces Opposition”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

High Country News on Tribal Initiatives under Obamacare

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Here: “When federal health care falls short, tribes improvise: A growing number of tribes manage their own clinics and behavioral programs.”

“Trump tells Sen. Orrin Hatch that he’ll shrink Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument”

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Here from the Salt Lake Tribune.

News Profile of the Federal Government’s Attack on the Chomorro Land Trust in Guam

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Here is “The Feds Are Attacking a Program That Gives Indigenous People Land: A land trust in Guam set aside for native people is being sued by Trump’s Department of Justice because it won’t lease to non-natives.”

ProPublica: “It’s a Fact: Supreme Court Errors Aren’t Hard to Find”

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Here.

High Country News: “Northern California tribes face down massive wildfires”

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Here.

Donald Trump is an Asshole

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Here: “Trump Predicts Justices Ginsburg And Sotomayor Will Die During His Presidency.”

Today in Racism against Indians

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Here.

An upstate New York politician criticizes a mural depicting American Indians, saying they’re too “dark,” and asking why the mural couldn’t instead depict the town’s “original heritage.”