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FILE - An illegal mining camp is visible from a Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter during an operation to try to contain illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

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FILE - A group of Indigenous women from across Ecuador's Amazon walk near a support beam for an oil pipeline as they travel through the region on what activists call a toxitour visiting oil fields in Sucumbios, Ecuador, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)

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The Javae River and the Boa Esperanca village of the Javae Indigenous group are visible on Bananal Island in Formoso do Araguaia, Tocantins state, Brazil, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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FILE - The ruins of a building that was part of a Native American boarding school on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in Mission, S.D., are seen, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

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A painting by Navajo artist Kee Yazzie is displayed as part of the "Stars, Stripes and First Americans" exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, N.M., on Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

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Decades-old moccasins from Taos Pueblo that feature red, white and blue beads are prepared for display as part of the "Stars, Stripes and First Americans" exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, N.M., on Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)