Indigenous concerns surface as Trump calls for seabed mining in Alaskan waters

Indigenous concerns surface as Trump calls for seabed mining in Alaskan waters

President Donald Trump is considering allowing companies to lease more than 113 million acres of waters off Alaska for seabed mining. Alaska is the latest of several places Trump has sought to open to the fledging industry over the past year, including waters around American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Like those Pacific islands, Alaska is home to Indigenous peoples with ancestral ties to the ocean, and the proposal is raising…