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Article: Native Americans at risk for toxins from unexploded weaponry.
- Article from:
- Native American Report
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Native Americans living on Western reservations are being exposed to a "toxic legacy" left by unexploded military ordnance, a new report charges.
Military expansion in the last century led to testing of increasingly toxic weaponry, and that testing was conducted on remote lands in the West--often in the very same counties where Native people had been pushed by the government, the report said. The result: Native Americans and Native American lands are at a disproportionate risk from these unexploded military toxins.
"The study demonstrates that much of the disproportional exposure of Native Americans to environmental dangers throughout the 20th century ...