The pursuit of questionable economic projects by tribal nations offers the chance to think about what the end goals of sovereignty should, or even can, look like.
From the Grand Canyon to Mount Rushmore, if the routinely flouted U.S. treaties with Indigenous people were honored, this would be a very different country.
The planet is facing the existential threat of catastrophic climate change, and while activists around the country - and the world - work to reverse it, the Trump administration is blocking those efforts.
