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Toxic contaminants,
agricultural pesticides and other industrial chemicals that
disproportionately impact Indigenous peoples, especially
subsistence and livestock cultures.
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Inadequate governmental environment and health standards and
regulations.
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Clean up of contaminated lands from mining, military, and
other industry activities.
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Toxic incinerators and landfills on and near Indigenous lands.
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Inadequate solid and hazardous waste and wastewater management
capacity of Indigenous communities and tribes.
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Unsustainable mining and oil development on and near
Indigenous lands.
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National energy policies at the expense of the rights of
Indigenous peoples.
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Climate change and global warming.
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Coal mining and coal-fired power plants resulting in mercury
contamination, water depletion, destruction of sacred sites
and environmental degradation.
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Uranium mining developments and struggles to obtain victim
compensation to Indigenous uranium miners, millers, processors
and Downwinders of past nuclear testing experiments.
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Nuclear waste dumping in Indigenous lands.
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Deforestation.
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Water rights, water quantity and privatization of water.
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Economic globalization putting stress on Indigenous peoples
and local ecosystems.
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Border justice, trade agreements and transboundary waste and
contamination along the US/Mexico/Canada borders and other
Indigenous lands worldwide.
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Failure of the US government to fulfill its mandated
responsibility to provide funding to tribes and Alaska
villages to develop and implement environmental protection
infrastructures.
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Backlash from US state governments giving in to the lobbying
pressures of industry and corporations against the right of
tribes to implement their own water and air quality standards.
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Protection of sacred, historical and cultural significant
areas.
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Biological diversity and endangered species.
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Genetically modified organisms impacting the environment,
traditional plants and seeds and intellectual rights of
Indigenous peoples - bio-colonialism.
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Economic blackmail and lack of sustainable economic and
community development resources.
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Just transition of workers and communities impacted by
industry on and near Indigenous lands.
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Urban sprawl and growth on and near Indigenous lands.
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Failure of colonial governments and their programs to
adequately consult with or address environmental protection,
natural resource conservation, environmental health, and
sacred/historical site issues affecting traditional Indigenous
lands and its Indigenous peoples.
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De-colonization and symptoms of internalized
oppression/racism/tribalism.
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And many others.
