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Show Goshute T H E G O S H U T E S 6 7 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 state legislators, legislatives to work together or the governor because in Utah, they were against it, OK. Not only for, well, for that decision that the interior made. That's, that's what I'm looking at. As far as state-wise, I really feel that they should… if they don't want the waste on our reservation, why create more? And so, why are they talking about having new reactors? What did, what did, what did…why do you think I fought for 13 years? And it's been long years to be able to go up against this opposition. I've lost, I've lost a lot of things; I've sacrificed in other words. And the way I sacrificed is that now I'm not a likely person because I've went against the economic development for the tribe. In a way, we were successful in stopping it because if it wasn't for the very things that we believed in to fight this- to oppose it-then, it wouldn't have happened. Senator [Orrin] Hatch and [Senator Bob] Ben-nett took that ball and ran with it and made that goal, but they left us behind. They left us behind. They didn't put us up there with them and so we're still sitting here, but then we don't, we real-ize, we know that if it wasn't for us, they couldn't have stopped this. So, what I would like to see is to be able to have it be like, like a goal for other reservations as well because this nuclear waste isn't going to stop here on the reservation, the reservation, the Skull Valley Goshute Reserva-tion, the Indian Goshute Reservation. It's going to go somewhere else and it's going to affect those-that community-those Native Ameri-cans- those indigenous people, the same way it was affecting us. And we're lucky, we don't have to deal with cancer here. Although there are cancers, but we can't pinpoint it because of the nerve gas and Dugway [Proving Ground] and all that stuff and the government would never recognize it anyway. But we're lucky that we're not affected by the test site, the Nevada test site. Although it might have came this far as, as far as the studies go. But, at least it's not more than half of our members that are stuck with cancer, which is just pretty scary. And so, um, I feel that that would be, um, a solution that's there now. And, ah, but that could be, um, that could be possible for other reservations as well. Margene Bullcreek, interview with Samantha Senda-Cook, Nov. 3, 2007, Nuclear Technology in the American West Oral History Project, Everett L. Cooley Collection, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, t.s., 9-15. |