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+Nuclear waste is stored but not wanted on Native lands- it’s a product of the Federal Government shoving it down their throats- causing health problems, land degradation, and risks causing a future genocidal wipeout for all Indian Americans |
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+Republic of Lakotah 10 "Native Americans Bear the Nuclear Burden." Republic of Lakotah Mitakuye Oyasin. Republic of Lakotah, A South Dakota Tribe, 10 Apr. 2010. Web. 05 Sept. 2016. http://www.republicoflakotah.com/2010/native-americans-bear-the-nuclear-burden/. |
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+Native communities, primarily in the western US, have been chronically exposed to low |
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+to our intelligence to say that we are natural stewards of these wastes.” |
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+This practice is a way to turn the Native people and its lands into trash- these disposal sites would permanently poison the land and its people- this also robs them of their sovereignty |
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+Angel 92 Angel, Bradley. Greenpeace Activist The toxic threat to Indian lands. publisher not identified, 1992. http://www.ejnet.org/ej/toxicthreattoindianlands.pdf |
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+Today, hundreds of Indian Nations (Tribes) are being approached by both the |
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+in a business environment essentially free of environmental laws, regulation or enforcement. |
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+Also proves that we are a discussion of the topic and its issues- means we are reasonably topical |
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+Thus, I advocate the giving back of land to Native Americans. |
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+Churchill 96 (Ward, Former Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Chicago, Boulder 1996, “I AM INDIGENIST,” pgs. 520-30, Accessed 9/3/16) |
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+I’ll debunk some of this nonsense in a moment, but first I want to |
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+, sexist, classist, homophobic, militaristic order on non-Indians. |
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+This act of impossible realism solves—Colonization is the root cause of oppression, and exploitation. Only a return to indigenous politics can rectify colonialism. |
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+Churchill 96 Ward Churchill 1996 (Former Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder, BA and MA in Communications from Sangamon State, From A Native Son pgs 85-90) |
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+The question which inevitably arises with regard to indigenous land claims, especially in the |
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+“impossible realism.” Isn’t it time we all worked on attaining it? |
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+Indigenous land return sparks global decolonization movements that are critical to averting environmental collapse and extinction. |
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+Tinker 96 George E. Tinker, Iliff School of Technology, 1996 Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice, ed. Jace Weaver, p. 171-72 |
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+My suggestion that we take the recognition of indigenous sovereignty as a priority is an |
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+is not simply just; the survival of all may depend on it. |
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+The role of the ballot is to endorse the debater that best promotes Indigenous epistemology. |
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+Indigenous epistemology is value driven, and a respect and openness to all beings is at the center of that value system. |
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+Hester and Cheney 01 (Lee and Jim, American Indian Studies, University of Science and Arts, Oklahoma “Truth and Native American epistemology” SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY, 2001, VOL. 15, NO . 4, 319–334 accessed 7/7/14 .nt) |
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+To use a phrase of Deloria's, we might call the idea that 'In formulating |
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+of reality. (Deloria et al., 1999, p. 46) |
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+Indigenous Epistemology is more than a set of moral beliefs or assumptions- rather it is crafting the right orientation with the living world found in everything on Earth- this allows us to gain insights and knowledge to orient us on a truly moral, ethical life |
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+Hester and Cheney 01 (Lee and Jim, American Indian Studies, University of Science and Arts, Oklahoma “Truth and Native American epistemology” SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY, 2001, VOL. 15, NO . 4, 319–334, accessed 9/4/16, VM) |
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+Native American epistemological style, as depicted by Deloria, is even more radical than |
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+universal consideration discussed earlier as a feature of Native American worlds. |