Nevada Desert Experience :: Issues :: indigenous Sovereignty

- Indigenous Sovereignty -

Nevada Desert Experience honors the commitment to struggle for justice and sovereignty of the indigenous peoples of this land. Nuclear weapons testing has been conducted worldwide on lands taken from indigenous people. In the case of the Nevada Test Site, the land legally belongs to the Western Shoshone Nation. This land is now the most bombed place on earth.

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The Western Shoshone Defense Project

The Shundahai Network

- Articles -

Report from Amnesty International
Western Shoshone
"It's disgraceful how the United States makes international statements about human rights and then commits this kind of assault in our own backyard. It destroys their credibility and moral authority"

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WASHINGTON - One of the largest ongoing seizures of Indian land in modern times will move forward following President George W. Bush’s signing of the Western Shoshone Distribution Bill on July 7 2004
by: Jerry Reynolds / Washington D.C. correspondent / Indian Country Today

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