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Indigenous peoples face many serious human rights and environmental problems due to illegal land expropriation, large infrastructure projects, forced displacement, and the imposition of extractive industry projects. The ongoing development of international human rights law is a critical legal and political tool. These laws which explicitly recognize the collective right of indigenous peoples to own, manage and control their traditional...
Associated Press article in the Billings Gazette. The Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes of Montana with the Montana Environmental Information Center amend a 2002 lawsuit asserting that "state officials refuse to address water pollution from old mining next door in violation of the Montana Constitution."
Report submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on December 11, 2007 as part of a national report by NGOs. Report prepared by a coalition of indigenous organizations and individuals, including the Indian Law Resource Center. The report was submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on December 11, 2007 as part...
Billings Gazette. Governor Schweitzer signs a bill for water treatment on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, addressing the reservation's top environmental concern after contamination from the Zortman-Landusky mines affected their water sources.
Op-ed article from the Bozeman Chronicle discussing the harmful effects of cyanide-leach mining, which could return if Montana Initiative 147 were to be passed, a repeal on the cyanide-leaching ban.
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Great Falls Tribune article. Attorneys for the Fort Belknap Tribes in Montana argue that the Bureau of Land Management failed "and the government neglected its duties to protect the tribe's natural resources and historic sacred lands."
In this Indian Country Today article, Ron Seldon discusses the new lawsuit filed on behalf of the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre Tribes of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, declaring that the the Bureau of Land Management, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and the current owner of the Zortman-Landusky mine complex are violating the federal Clean Water Act.
Montana tribes oppose the new Montana Initiative 147, which would repeal the state's ban on cyanide mining, raising concerns for further contamination of already devastated areas.