Despite previous opposition, NDN Collective now supports Interior’s renewed oil-and-gas leasing program

Politics over principle? Pressure from the Biden administration?

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WASHINGTON – Some Native activists are asking why NDN Collective, of all places, has chosen to take a leading Indigenous role in supporting the Biden administration’s new favorable position on oil-and-gas lease sales on federal lands and water.

NDN Collective, which bills itself as an Indigenous-led, grassroots advocacy organization, has in…