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Articulating value in Tribal mineral development

Brunson, Alexandra DakotaTomi
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Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy
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2026-01-07
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https://hdl.handle.net/11124/181658
 https://doi.org/10.25676/11124/181658
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Public narratives about development in Indian Country often focus on limitations — gaps in capital access, infrastructure, or workforce — rather than the emerging reality that Tribal nations are positioned at the center of 21st-century development involving energy transition, critical minerals, digital infrastructure, and long-term climate adaptation. With federal investment at historic levels and global demand for critical minerals accelerating, the question is no longer whether resource-based development in Indian Country can occur, but how it will be structured; extractively and short-term, or sovereign, research-driven, and value-added.
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