Menominee Tribe in US Fights to Defend Sacred Site From Mining by Canada Company

MILWAUKEE (Sputnik)

The plans of Canada’s exploration company to mine gold, zink, copper and other minerals in the US Midwest region threatens sacred sites of the Menominee Indian Tribe and the Great Lakes’ ecosystem, tribe Chairman Gary Besaw told Sputnik.

Besaw came to the Annual Convention of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in Wisconsin to attract the public’s attention to the issue of the US federal government breaking its obligations and promises to the tribe.

"The Canadian company [Aquila Resources Inc.’s] is looking at developing a mine on the interstate boundary river between the states of Wisconsin and upper Michigan. They are looking at doing it on the upper Michigan side of the river," Besaw said. "The footprint of that mine is on ancestral Menominee burial sites, mounds, raised garden beds. There is a whole village seen there, and this proposed mine would destroy them. This area is up near our tribal nation's creation story."...https://sputniknews.com/us/201710201058416930-menominee-tribe-besaw-us-ncai/

Related:

https://www.americanrivers.org/2017/07/menominee-tribe-fights-stop-controversial-mine/