Nuclear Colonialism 1AC

Framing

The end of colonialism is a myth. Colonizers have not left, but instead pursue their own agenda while ignoring natives. Discursive dynamics are prevalent that perpetuate a system of nuclear colonialism. Vote aff to reject the colonialist mindset that natives are inferior.

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Endres, Danielle. "Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies." The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision: Vol 6, No 1. N.p., 17 Feb. 2009. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420802632103>.
Although the material implications of nuclear colonialism are undeniable, it is important to turn
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its technopolitical success.''28 Nuclear colonialism is a tale of resource colonialism.

Strategic silence is a tool that shifts the focus away from colonialism; it's time we started talking about the core issues that are hidden by those in power

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Endres, Danielle. "Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies." The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision: Vol 6, No 1. N.p., 17 Feb. 2009. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420802632103>.
In addition to outlining a decision calculus that shifts the burden of proof in a
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negation, or silence, we are told, is never complete.''82

The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best methodologically rejects nuclear colonialism. Including the indigenous voice is key to change.

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Endres, Danielle. "Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies." The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision: Vol 6, No 1. N.p., 17 Feb. 2009. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420802632103>.
Nuclear weapons and nuclear power have devastating consequences for local populations surrounding the sites of
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rhetorical strategies of nuclear colonialism, their consequences, and their continuing legacies.

Inherency

The history of nuclear energy policy is tied back to nuclear colonialism.

IEN 2 "Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Statement: Yucca Mountain and Private Fuel Storage at Skull Valley." Indigenous Environmental Network. N.p., 14 Apr. 2002 <http://www.ienearth.org/indigenous-anti-nuclear-statement-yucca-mountain-and-private-fuel-storage-at-skull-valley/>.
The nuclear industry has waged an undeclared war against our Indigenous peoples and Pacific Islanders
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peoples. Indigenous peoples have already made countless sacrifices for this country's nuclear programs

Not satisfied with land grabbing alone, colonialism has changed to incorporate a policy that pits indigenous people into nuclear dumping and mining.

LaDuke 99 ~[Native American environmental activist, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for land and life, p. 2-3~]
There are over 700 Native nations on the North American continent. Today, in
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resources that will provide an equitable allocation between tribal governments and states.'

The aff is try or die; natives face a high level nuclear crisis that continually perpetuates colonialism, a ban on nuclear power is key.

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Endres, Danielle. "Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies." The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision: Vol 6, No 1. N.p., 17 Feb. 2009. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420802632103>.
Now, with over 60 years of uranium mining, nuclear weapons production and nuclear
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intersects with sovereignty, nuclearism and colonialism, to which I now turn.

Thus the plan: The USFG in conjunction with the indigenous nations ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.

Solvency

Banning nuclear production is key to upholding tribal sovereignty which ends nuclear colonialism.

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Endres, Danielle. "Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies." The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision: Vol 6, No 1. N.p., 17 Feb. 2009. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420802632103>.
Nuclear communication criticism has focused on examination of the ''practices and processes of communication''
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for the benefit of the colonizer at the expense of their colonial targets.

For far too long, rhetorical exclusion has been used to exclude and belittle natives; the aff takes a stance against the idea that the US is inherently greater

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Endres, Danielle. "Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies." The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision: Vol 6, No 1. N.p., 17 Feb. 2009. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420802632103>.
Nuclear colonialism is inextricably linked to the concept of rhetorical exclusion. According to John
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it is important to establish that there were indeed arguments against the site.

Plan uniquely solves; we open the door to mutual government negotiations which are key to indigenous sovereignty and land rights

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Endres, Danielle. "Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies." The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision: Vol 6, No 1. N.p., 17 Feb. 2009. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420802632103>.
In the Yucca Mountain siting controversy, the federal government named American Indians as members
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be asked to sacrifice their lands for the greater good of the nation.

Advantages

The impact is cultural genocide; indigenous lands are key to the native way of life

Edwards 11 ~[Nelta Edwards, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, "Nuclear Colonialism and the Social Construction of Landscape in Alaska," Environmental Justice 4.2 (2011): 109-114, http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/env.2010.0023  myost~]
It is important to examine the justifications and ramifications surrounding the choice of particular sites
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learned it—to keep my land clean <continues in Inupiaq>.''39 

This form of nuclear violence comes from util calculus which devalues entire native populations; reject this colonialist logic that natives are expendable for superpower interests

Edwards 11 ~[Nelta Edwards, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, "Nuclear Colonialism and the Social Construction of Landscape in Alaska," Environmental Justice 4.2 (2011): 109-114, http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/env.2010.0023  myost~]
When nuclear superpowers describe population as ''sparse'' to justify nuclear testing, they employ
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done on Native American land due to militarism and coercive state policies.33