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Some of us got a heads up from the natives long before this hit paper. Discussions were not going well (if at all). No, you can't go dig up grampa just for your mine! The area has been sacred for thousands of years. I believe our natives have been here for far far longer than science would suggest. The deluge that spread the canoes was the ice age melting and their verbal tradition goes on for miles before that. Just because they don't have a land registry office that holds paper doesn't mean it's no theirs. I believe their words are iron that no paper can hold. Long after that office and it's paper has turned to dust their words will continue. Clearly, they have been the stewards of the land for ever and it has not suffered under them. Going by oral tradition suggest they have been her for 1/2 million years or better. So in one act of greed we are to destroy for all time what was sacred to a people? That was never going to fly. These guys must be compensated with money and land. Money to change their way of life permanently and land that must never be harmed to preserve their way of life. Just look what we have done to their languages! Surely we are intelligent enough to realize that forced assimilation is a false god. Even the borg failed in the end.