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Privatizing native lands

samedi 10 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Trump's advisors want to privatize indigenous peoples' land in order to deregulate drilling for fossil fuels.

Privatization of tribal lands has been used in the US as a means to take it away. Once an individual, rather than the tribe, can sell the land, desperate poverty is likely to make that happen. The result is that the tribe's members end up just as poor, and without land. And in some cases poisoned by toxic releases from the wells.