U.S. Military has poisonous legacy in Indian country A new study shows American Indians have been exposed to the toxic legacy of two World Wars and the Cold War, with undetonated bombs, nerve gas and live shells littering Indian country and borderlands.
The United States policy of locating dangerous military operations near Indian communities is described as national racism, reflective of apartheid practices in South Africa.
The United States policy of locating dangerous military operations near Indian communities is described as national racism, reflective of apartheid practices in South Africa.
Photo courtesy Chris Francisco -- The Badlands bombing range sign on Pine Ridge tribal land in South Dakota remains at the entrance to the Stronghold, where Lakota have defended the remains of the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho Ghost Dancers from a planned archaeological dig of the National Park Service.
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