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The Associated Press 14\/06\/2024 A report published this week by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in detail the dispossession of $1.7 trillion worth of Indigenous homelands in Colorado by the state and the U.S. and the more than $546 million the state has reaped in mineral extraction from them. The report, shared first with The Associated Press, identifies 10 tribal nations that have \u201caboriginal title, congressional title, and treaty title to lands within Colorado\u201d and details the ways the land was legally and illegally taken. It determined that many of the transactions were in direct violation of treaty rights or in some cases lacked title for a legal transfer. \u201cOnce we were removed, they just simply started divvying up the land, creating parcels and selling it to non-Natives and other… <\/p>\n

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The Associated Press 14\/06\/2024 A report published this week by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in detail the dispossession of $1.7 trillion worth of Indigenous homelands in Colorado by the state and the U.S. and the more than $546 million the state has reaped in mineral extraction from them. The report, shared first with The Associated Press, identifies 10 tribal nations that have \u201caboriginal title, congressional title, and treaty title to lands within Colorado\u201d and details the ways the land was legally and illegally taken. It determined that many of the transactions were in direct violation of treaty rights or in some cases lacked title for a legal transfer. \u201cOnce we were removed, they just simply started divvying up the land, creating parcels and selling it to non-Natives and other... <\/p>\n

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