US tribal lands are prime targets for nuclear and toxic waste disposal.

Evidence

Reservations have been targeted as sites for 16 proposed nuclear waste dumps. Over 100 proposals have been floated in recent years to dump toxic waste in Indian communities. Seventyseven sacred sites have been disturbed or desecrated through resource extraction and development activities. The federal government is proposing to use Yucca Mountain, sacred to the Shoshone, as a dumpsite for the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. Over the last 45 years, there have been 1,000 atomic explosions on Western Shoshone land in Nevada, making the Western Shoshone the most bombed nation on earth. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 53

Categorization

• XREF: The Western Shoshone/Yucca Mountain case is the living legal terrain of aboriginal title and Johnson v. M’Intosh — radical title never extinguished. — 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; Prairie Island refused $220 million to accept a nuclear waste dump — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 564 (+6 more)
• QUESTION: The claim that Western Shoshone land was never formally ceded is load-bearing — need to verify treaty status for the Legal Systems course.

Broader Connections

• Diverse waste proposals surfaced as a shared single pattern of Indian land targeting #corroborates (0.95) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 616
• 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