Tournament: Holy Cross | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake LM | Judge: Devane Murphy
====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====
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/.
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."

====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====
Angel 92 Angel, Bradley. Greenpeace Activist The toxic threat to Indian lands. publisher not identified, 1992. http://www.ejnet.org/ej/toxicthreattoindianlands.pdf
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.

Also proves that we are a discussion of the topic and its issues- means we are reasonably topical

Thus, I advocate the giving back of land to Native Americans.

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)
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. 

This act of impossible realism solves—Colonization is the root cause of oppression, and exploitation. Only a return to indigenous politics can rectify colonialism.

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)
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? 

Indigenous land return sparks global decolonization movements that are critical to averting environmental collapse and extinction.

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~
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.

The role of the ballot is to endorse the debater that best promotes Indigenous epistemology.

Indigenous epistemology is value driven, and a respect and openness to all beings is at the center of that value system.

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)
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)

====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====
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)
Native American epistemological style, as depicted by Deloria, is even more radical than 

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attitude of universal consideration discussed earlier as a feature of Native American worlds.

Refuse the false objectivity of debate. Theory is no longer used to ensure true fairness but rather to silence challenges to the status quo. Debate has become a training ground for policymakers using procedural concerns to allowed the continued exploitation of millions.

Spanos 4 (William V. Spanos, available online cross-x.com url: http://www.crossx.com/vb/showthread.php?t=945110andhighlight=Spanos+Email Nov. 18)
Dear Joe Miller, Yes, the statement about the American debate circuit you refer 

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blind arrogance of Bush Administration and his neocon policy makers is leading.