Colorado Was Built on $1.7 Trillion of Land Taken From Tribal Nations

Source: U.S. News and World ReportA report published this week by a Native American-led nonprofit estimates that Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion worth of Indigenous homelands, and that the state has reaped more than $546 million in mineral extraction from the these lands. The report also identifies 10 tribal nations that have "aboriginal title, congressional title, and treaty title to lands within Colorado" and documents how the land was taken, often in direct violation of...