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douglas9

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Mon Sep 7, 2020, 06:58 AM Sep 2020

Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte 'The Most Bombed Nation on Earth' [View all]

You never know what is killing you when it is done in secret.

I watched my uncle suffer from horrible cancer that ate away at his throat and my grandfather die of an auto-immune disease that is known to be caused by exposure to radiation. They say he had a heart attack, but when your skin falls off, that puts stress on your heart.

Many of my cousins have died. Last year, my cousin, who is about 50, had a defibrillator put in his chest. Now his daughter, who is a toddler, has heart problems as well. At around the same time, one of my cousins told me his mom has cancer. And then a week later, he found out he has it, too.

A few months ago, an elder here died from a rare form of brain cancer.
Every family is affected. We have seen mental and physical retardation, leukaemia, childhood leukaemia, all sorts of cancers.

The US military industrial complex

I am the Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians - the most bombed nation on earth.
Our country is approximately 40,000 square miles (25.6 million acres), from just west of Las Vegas, Nevada all the way to the Snake River in Idaho, including a 350-mile (563km) wide strip in the Great Basin. There are approximately 25,000 to 30,000 Shoshone lineal descendants but the United States places the number much lower based on blood quantum (a percentage of ancestry).

We have been on this land for at least 10,000 years.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2020/08/western-shoshone-ian-zabarte-most.html

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Atomic testing on/near remote Native American sites another crime against FirstNations bobbieinok Sep 2020 #1
Karma central scrutinizer Sep 2020 #2
Heartsick kNR niyad Sep 2020 #3
My fifth great grandfathers mrs_p Sep 2020 #4
The radiation kills "cowboys" too. Codifer Sep 2020 #5
See reply #2. mountain grammy Sep 2020 #7
oops Codifer Sep 2020 #11
Happens to us all mountain grammy Sep 2020 #12
Speechless PatSeg Sep 2020 #6
Horrible. True environmental racism. ancianita Sep 2020 #8
NV Congresswoman Dina Titus (1st) wrote a fantastic book about the test site. malchickiwick Sep 2020 #9
Kick for visibility. love_katz Sep 2020 #10
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