[Shadow_Group] Native Americans at risk from toxic military leftovers

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Native Americans at risk from toxic military leftovers

More than a century ago, the U.S. slaughtered a bunch of indigenous 
folks and put the rest on reservations in the most arid, isolated, 
undesirable parts of the American West.  A new study shows that many 
closed military sites in the Lower 48 states -- including bombing 
ranges, weapons-testing sites, and waste dumps -- are close by those 
reservations, possibly putting Native Americans at disproportionately 
high risk from the toxic materials and unexploded bombs left behind. 
According to a Defense Department report, the abandoned bases are 
home to "hazardous materials, unexploded ordnance, abandoned 
equipment, unsafe buildings, and debris."  The feds estimate that 
unexploded ordnance contaminates up to 50 million acres in the U.S. 
and, at current rates, would take centuries to clean up.  Seems 
environmental racism isn't confined to low-income urban areas.

straight to the source:  Aberdeen News, Associated Press, Nicholas K. 
Geranios, 27 Nov 2004
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