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Show Goshute T H E G O S H U T E S 6 6 W E S H A L L R E M A I N : U TA H I N D I A N C U R R I C U L U M G U I D E affected by it, by that. And so, that's one organiza-tion. And I've been in close contact with the IEN, the Indigenous Environment Network, in Min-nesota, they really helped our organization out by supporting us. And Shundahai [Network] was another one that was um, you know… The chairman for Ohavi. And, ah, that's about all the organizations that I've been really close to. SS: Great. So, from your perspective, what is the problem with nuclear waste? MB: What's the problem with nuclear waste? SS: Um-hm. MB: The big problem from what I learned over the years is that, that it was something that was created by the DOE [Department of Energy] and they were going to put it at this permanent site. By this time it should have been there [Yucca Mountain], but it's not there. OK and, and, they want to created more, but they don't know where to put this stuff. Our place was, was, was the one place that was going to be possible, and hopefully it won't come about yet. But this was the place where they were going to store it. And this was a temporary stop and from here it was going to go to Yucca Mountain, OK? But I'm saying and I hear this, people say keep it where it's at, keep it in your own backyard. Don't let it come through the states where it's going to affect communities. Keep it where it's at. I believe that they do have spaces because they used to say they have room in their parking lots and they do. Keep it there until it's time to go to its permanent site. The sad part about it is that it's going to go to another Native American territory. And it's their land. And it's just like I'm saying, how come from the start of things that they took over a lot of our Native American country? They took a lot and then this permanent site is a part of that. And it's sad because-that's one of the reasons I was fighting it too. I didn't want this big corporation [Private Fuel Storage] or DOE or nuclear waste is a big thing. It gave, created a lot of corporations and a lot of moneys for people that are, that wants it. But those of us that are going to sacrifice our land and our live-lihood just so that they could create more and create more moneys for themselves by putting this, putting it on our land after we've been stripped of our, the best portion of the lands in the country and put us on the poor, the poor part of the country. And now they want to put it, there's no place else to put it but on our reservation, that's what I'm saying. This reservation that they haven't touched, yet. But to us, there's a lot of there's a lot of values here. Whether it's material-istic or spiritual. And, um, it's just the same thing all over again. That's why, that's how I feel about nuclear waste. And it's not only nuclear waste. Anything that has to do with our Native American land, whether it's nuclear waste or mining or oil drilling or whatever that the country needs. The important thing I'm trying to say is that they've already, they've already dug up the things that they dug up. Why, you know, dig more into our Native American lands? And it's just the same, like the Navajos were telling me about the ura-nium, you know, you're going to wake up a giant and that's what it did. From that came Hiroshima and all these lot of lives being wasted and lost. And wars. It's just not-it's not right. SS: You've outlined the problem with nuclear waste, and clearly you're trying to solve that problem. So, how do you see your role in that so-lution? MB: The solution I, because the interior, the Sec-retary of the Interior made a decision, saying that it would affect our homeland security, being who we are as Native Americans and the land that we have, this could affect us, OK. And so, that itself could be a solution because then it could stop the waste from coming not only to this reservation, but to other reservations as well. So, that needs to be, I really feel that needs to be looked into for that, that part of the solution more. You know, I really feel that we need to have support of tribes to work together; we need to have support of your |
