The Trump administration just sold an Alaska tribe’s hunting grounds to ExxonMobil to drill for oil, 48 hours after a federal judge ordered the land protected.

The tribe had made a deal with the federal government: accept the largest oil project in state history, and we’ll protect the lake and caribou your people have hunted for thousands of years.

A Trump political appointee voided the deal in a letter. Then the administration held the lease sale anyway, inside the protected zone, in defiance of the court order. $163.7 million changed hands.

500 people just learned what Indigenous communities have learned for 400 years: the United States will sign anything and honor nothing when there’s money in the ground.

Share and speak out. The full investigation. Three lawsuits, one ignored court order, and a playbook coming to the rest of the West.