Newfoundland approved mining on Innu land without Innu consent

Evidence

In November of 1994, Diamond Fields Resources announced their “discovery” in Emish of the richest nickel ore body in the world. Six months later, when the snow had subsided, hundreds of mining companies descended upon the land. More than 50 companies remain today, all with the approval of the government of Newfoundland and without the approval of the Innu. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 366

Categorization

• XREF: Continuing pattern of state-extractive approval over Indigenous consent — same legal terrain as Johnson v. M’Intosh doctrine of discovery the reader is tracking. — connects to: Drowned spruce forests leached mercury contaminating 37 percent of surveyed Innu — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 337; The Churchill dam flooded nearly 5,700 square miles of Innu land — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 336; Colonial renaming erased Innu place-names like Patshetshunau — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 331