Federal agencies funded tribal organizations to market nuclear waste siting.

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US tribal lands are prime targets for nuclear and toxic waste disposal. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 53; The DOE recruited tribes to take nuclear waste by invoking Native spiritual duty. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 516; Corporate payments to tribal leaders made grassroots organizing necessary (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Waste firms sold toxic proposals to impoverished Tribes as green job schemes #expands (0.85) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 599