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After decades of toxic mining waste turned their Oklahoma land into a Superfund site, the Quapaw Nation reclaimed and restored it, making it safe for bison, crops, cattle, and tribal life.

What was once poisoned is now productive and sacred, a quiet victory for land, people, and future generations.

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Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life

The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination

The Guardian