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Article: Environmental genocide: native Americans and toxic waste.
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
- Author:
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Genocide against Native Americans continues in modern times with modern techniques. In the past, buffalo were slaughtered or corn crops were burned, thereby threatening local native populations; now the Earth itself is being strangled, thereby threatening all life. The government and large corporations have created toxic, lethal threats to human health. Yet, because "Native Americans live at the lowest socioeconomic level in the U.S." (Glass, n.d., 3), they are most at risk for toxic exposure. All poor people and people of color are disadvantaged, although "[f]or Indians, these disadvantages are multiplied by dependence on food supplies closely tied to the land and in which ...