Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte 'The Most Bombed Nation on Earth'

[douglas9]

You never know what is killing you when it is done in secret.

I watched my uncle suffer from horrible cancer that ate away at his throat and my grandfather die of an auto-immune disease that is known to be caused by exposure to radiation. They say he had a heart attack, but when your skin falls off, that puts stress on your heart.

Many of my cousins have died. Last year, my cousin, who is about 50, had a defibrillator put in his chest. Now his daughter, who is a toddler, has heart problems as well. At around the same time, one of my cousins told me his mom has cancer. And then a week later, he found out he has it, too.

A few months ago, an elder here died from a rare form of brain cancer.
Every family is affected. We have seen mental and physical retardation, leukaemia, childhood leukaemia, all sorts of cancers.

The US military industrial complex

I am the Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians - the most bombed nation on earth.
Our country is approximately 40,000 square miles (25.6 million acres), from just west of Las Vegas, Nevada all the way to the Snake River in Idaho, including a 350-mile (563km) wide strip in the Great Basin. There are approximately 25,000 to 30,000 Shoshone lineal descendants but the United States places the number much lower based on blood quantum (a percentage of ancestry).

We have been on this land for at least 10,000 years.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2020/08/western-shoshone-ian-zabarte-most.html

[bobbieinok]

1. Atomic testing on/near remote Native American sites another crime against FirstNations

[central scrutinizer]

2. Karma

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/some-of-the-most-dangerous-movies-ever/4/

In 1956, "The Conqueror" was filmed on location in St. George, Utah, just 137 miles away from a Nevada test site where the United States had conducted above-ground nuclear weapons testing three years before. In the years that followed, many of the film's principal actors and crew members came down with various forms of cancer.

The film's director Dick Powell was diagnosed in 1963. Mexican actor Pedro Armendariz was diagnosed in 1960. And the film's stars Susan Hayward, John Wayne and Agnes Moorehead all died of cancer in the 1970s.

Of the film's 220 cast and crew members, 91 developed cancer and 46 ultimately died of the disease.

[niyad]

3. Heartsick kNR

[mrs_p]

4. My fifth great grandfathers

People.

[Codifer]

5. The radiation kills "cowboys" too.

I read (somewhere) years ago that the A tests were done when the wind was not blowing toward Vegas. When that happens, the wind blew toward a scenic stretch of desert where movies were made. Westerns. Handsome white lads who killing "Injuns" and "Redskins" for gawd.

I seem to recall that the article (from TV Guide?) appeared a bit after John Wayne's death from cancer. Apparently, several other deaths from cancer happened to other members of casts and crews. Statistically, the occurrence of cancer was far greater than expected for that population.

At the time, there was no mention of cancers among the Shoshone. Not all that important I would guess.

[mountain grammy]

7. See reply #2.

you are correct

[Codifer]

11. oops

I probly should wait till I drink one cup of coffee at least. DU folks are knowledgeable and fast too.

[mountain grammy]

12. Happens to us all

I just wanted to be sure you saw the post with more details..

[PatSeg]

6. Speechless

Words seem so ineffective at times. Just want to kick this for more people to see it and I posted it on Facebook as well.

[ancianita]

8. Horrible. True environmental racism.

No more. The next few years must be the time of reparation, local to national. Americans' goal in the next year.

No more white excuses or forgetting about First Nations.

The Green New Deal can be one vehicle of reparations for past environmental racism damage.

[malchickiwick]

9. NV Congresswoman Dina Titus (1st) wrote a fantastic book about the test site.

We read portions of it in my core humanities course. I believe she was a poli. sci prof at UNLV when she wrote it.

[love_katz]

10. Kick for visibility.