Amid Protests, An Indian Reservation Turns to Coal as a Lifeline

In the United States, many non-Native people subscribe to a certain mythology about Native Americans—a mythology that casts them as stewards of the earth working in harmony with the land.

It's a mythology we've seen play out in Disney films like "Pocahontas," in Oscar winning films like "Dances with Wolves," and in every cowboy and Indian film of the golden age of Hollywood.

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