Native American lands poisoned by military testing, reports say

[NVMojo]

DUCKWATER, NV — New research in the American Sociological Review and a related study of Department of Defense data by Indian Country Today point to a silent nuclear ecocide on Aboriginal lands and the systematic takeover of tribal lands for nuclear and explosives operations conducted by the U.S. military.

In “The Treadmill of Destruction: National Sacrifice Areas and Native Americans,” researchers Gregory Hooks and Chad L. Smith review ongoing military operations on and near Indian land. DOD data meanwhile reveals a concealed and often misleading history of environmental impacts.

Above and underground nuclear testing has been conducted in the heart of Shoshone and Paiute lands in Nevada. Goshute lands in Utah and Nevada straddle the Dugway chemical warfare testing site.

After World War II, Nellis Range, the largest gunnery range in the world, was absorbed into Nevada’s nuclear weapons complex. Both Nellis and the nuclear test site border lands of the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute.

Unexploded ordnances — mines, nerve gases, toxics, and explosive shells — contaminate as much as 50 million acres and have claimed at least 65 lives.

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http://www.vermontguardian.com/dailies/0904/0103.shtml

[Massachusetts]

1. Again Unfortunate another slap to Native Tribes

Is that Nevada I see glowing to my West every night?

[NVMojo]

3. yeah, it is glowing and may even be glowing soon if * and the nuke

lobbyists get their way ....

it is also a screaming shame that in the west, the feds stuck the Indian tribes on some of the most desolate lands ....

[Groggy]

2. Why do we have to destroy everything.?

Seems we're real good at that.