Federal DOE funding steered national Native organizations toward nuclear waste siting.

Evidence

During the late 1980s, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) joined in nuclear waste research. Founded in 1944 to “work toward the promotion of the common welfare” of Native Americans, NCAI cooperated with the Department of Energy to ensure participation of Indian tribal governments in the siting and transportation of high-level nuclear waste. Between 1986 and 1990, NCAI received nearly 1 million, over one-fourth of their total income, from Department of Energy nuclear waste grants. In 1992, the DOE and NCAI signed a five-year cooperative agreement for 1.8 million. The NCAI’s nuclear waste program, initiated largely with federal funds, provided tribes with a steady stream of information on radioactive wastes. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 513

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the federal bait-and-control pattern toward tribes described in chapter 5 of this book and CERT’s funding earlier. — connects to: The DOE recruited tribes to take nuclear waste by invoking Native spiritual duty. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 516; Federal agencies funded tribal organizations to market nuclear waste siting. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 512
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Federal agencies funded tribal organizations to market nuclear waste siting. #corroborates (0.95) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 512