Corporate payments to tribal leaders made grassroots organizing necessary

Evidence

Nor could tribal members depend on their elected leaders. “Corporations seemed to be lining the pocketbooks of a lot of tribal leaders, especially if it involved natural resources and environment,” explains Tom Goldtooth, coordinator of IEN. “What was emerging was a grassroots movement, of grassroots people, speaking out from the grassroots level.” — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 617 (#expands, via linked claim)

The federal Administration for Native Americans (ANA) and the Department of Commerce funded Indian consulting firms to promote the waste industry in Indian country. A big chunk of their money went to the Council on Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), an organization of 50 member tribes founded in 1975 to assert control over the development of Native mineral resources. In 1987, CERT received $2.5 million, over half of their total income, from federal nuclear waste contracts. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 512 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tribal governments sometimes aligned with corporations against their own grassroots members — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 617; Federal agencies funded tribal organizations to market nuclear waste siting. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 512

Related

• Federal agencies funded tribal organizations to market nuclear waste siting. (similarity 0.86)
• Tribal governments sometimes aligned with corporations against their own grassroots members (similarity 0.86)
• IEN’s governance formally excludes tribal governments to serve grassroots groups (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Tribal governments sometimes aligned with corporations against their own grassroots members #expands (0.88) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 617
• Federal agencies funded tribal organizations to market nuclear waste siting. #exemplifies (0.75) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 512