RESIST. REFRAME. RECLAIM.

For more than a hundred years, the Tribal communities of the Upper Columbia river have had to live with the abuse and negligence of the smelting industry.

In the 1940s, phosphate was discovered in areas surrounding the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes’ reservation and traditional lands. With the promises of royalties and reclamation to repair Tribal land that was mined, past Tribal leaders agreed to the extractive development.