Half of Oklahoma Is “Indian Country.” What If All Native Treaties Were Upheld?

As reported by The Intercept.

The Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site), where the U.S. and U.K. governments "test" detonated more than 900 full-scale nuclear weapons between 1951 and 1992 (and sub-critical nuclear weapons testing has continued there since), as well as the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump, are located on Western Shoshone land. The U.S. government acknowledged this when it signed the "peace and friendship" Treaty of Ruby Valley with the Western Shoshoe in 1863. Treaties are the highest law of the land, equal in stature to the U.S. Constituition itself. The U.S. government's genocidal radioactive racism is not only illegal, it is unconstitutional. For more information, see: <http://www.nativecommunityactioncouncil.org/>.