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Nuclear Sovereignty: Reservation Waste Disposal for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond

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openalex:w2811182014

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Mark Poole

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1998

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en

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state of Native America as the 21st century draws near, with nuclear waste serving as a sort of litmus' test for Indian sovereignty.This Note begins with a brief overview of the Mescalero Apache focusing on their recent attempts to site a nuclear waste storage facility.Part II examines the origins of federal Indian law with an emphasis on Native American sovereignty and the implications this doctrine may have in the debate over nuclear waste disposal.The interaction among the tribes, the federal government, and the states, specifically in the arena of state and federal environmental regulation, is discussed in Part Ill.Part IV addresses concerns about enyironmental racism in siting a nuclear waste storage facility on a reservation.The discussion in Part V endorses the policy of self-determination for the Mescalero Apache.The final section concludes with a discussion of some of the obstacles the Mescalero will face if allowed self-determination in building a Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) facility and suggests a number of ways in which these obstacles can be overcome. II. Mescalero ApacheThe Mescalero Apache have a long and storied history.The tribe, which once ranged across Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua, today consists of 3,400 members confined to a 460,000 acre reservation in south-central New Mexico, 5 a rugged landscape of "pine-forested peaks rushing streams and abundant wildlife," dominated by all 12,003 feet of Sierra Blanca.6 Descendants of the legendary Chiefs Geronimo and Cochise, the Mescalero are proud of their historical resistance to outsiders, repeatedly rebuffing invasion by the Spanish, Mexicans, Texans, and the United States Army.7 5. See id. 6. Thomas W. Lippman, On Apache Homeland: Nuclear Waste Seen as Opportunity, WASH.POST, June 28, 1992, at A3. 7. SeeWald, supra note 2, atAi8.In the words of Fred Peso, vice-president of the tribal council, "we fought the Spanish, the Mexicans, the Texans.the U.S. Army, even the Confederate Army came here.We fought with five nations and we're still here.

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