Part 1 of this series on 21st Century Native American genocide focused on drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the caribou, and the Gwich'in. Part 2 is focused further south in Alaska in the Bristol Bay watershed where there is yet another potential Trump devastation of a First Nation's traditional culture and way of life. The Northern Dynasty Mining Company (Pebble Limited Partnership aka Pebble) wants to develop the world's largest open pit copper and gold mine in the midst of the Bristol Bay Watershed.
There is nothing like Alaska’s Bristol Bay. It is a fully functioning, vast untouched watershed of winding streams and rivers, wetlands, tundra, forests and home to a variety of birds, terrestrial animals and the world's largest concentration (nearly 50 percent) of salmon (including all five North American species: Sockeye, Chinook, Chum, Coho and Pink Salmon). It is also the home of the Yup'ik and Dena'ina Native Americans.
The mine could destroy up to 94 miles of salmon-supporting streams and thousands of acres of wetlands, ponds and lakes which make up this ecosystem, and with it the Yup'ik and Dena'ina cultures.