Diverse waste proposals surfaced as a shared single pattern of Indian land targeting

Evidence

At the Dilkon gathering, a moment of realization took place in some participants’ minds. CARE members were aware of the United Church of Christ’s Toxic Wastes and Race report, and they connected the national pattern of unequal distribution of toxic waste facilities to the targeting of their community for the toxic waste incinerator. Nevertheless, they and others were surprised to see the same issues—outside interests seeking to place undesirable land uses on Indian reservations— arise in a variety of guises, from nuclear waste storage facilities to toxic waste landfills to garbage dumps. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 616

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels ch3’s ‘fusing civil rights racial critique with anti-toxics economic analysis’ — here the shared-structure realization happens at grassroots level. — connects to: Chronic federal underfunding of Indian environmental programs is deliberate colonial design; US tribal lands are prime targets for nuclear and toxic waste disposal. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 53; Waste firms sold toxic proposals to impoverished Tribes as green job schemes — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 599
• QUESTION: Useful for the legal bridge: community members connected disparate facilities to one targeting mechanism before courts recognized any pattern.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source