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Korff-Korn said that giving rights to nonhuman entities like water, animals, and plants is already baked into how many tribes see the world, so using tribal laws and respecting sovereignty is a way forward.

“It is a collaborative process between multiple private, state, federal and tribal entities so that the costs are going to be spread across multiple different entities,” he said.

Washington had until then avoided direct engagement with the group, and there was a longstanding American policy against contacting entities it had listed a terrorist organisation.

Parran spoke at the conference about the need to think beyond “the separateness of preventative and curative efforts to reduce death and disease” because all health efforts “are parts of the same entity.”

They are, in fact, private property owned by entities with free speech rights of their own and a vested interest in curating behavior to create a specific environment.