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Can We All Just Get Along? A Mining Company and a Tribe Say “Yes”

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This article appeared in Rural America In These Times in 2017 .  For more on topics like this, see my book,  American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle.... On August 18, a gold-mining company will hand over some 3,000 acres of ancient sacred sites to the Western Shoshone. The date will be marked with dancing, drumming, prayers and food, according to Joseph Holley, shown here. He is a councilman and former chairman of the Battle Mountain Band of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshones, in Nevada. Though most of the gift will remain just as the Western Shoshone ancestors left it, a campground is planned for a small portion of the tract in order to facilitate visits by community and school groups. Paul Huet, the chief executive officer of Klondex Mines , shown below, will speak on the occasion of the transfer, explaining how his Canadian firm purchased the acreage in order to give it to those who cherish it as part of an age-old heritage that finds meaning in the land. The Batt