Sacred Land News

July 7, 2004
Western Shoshone Land Claim Settlement Signed by Bush
Posted by: Toby McLeod

President George W. Bush today signed into law H.R. 884, the federal government’s long-standing attempt to extinguish aboriginal title to tens of millions of acres of disputed lands in Nevada, Idaho, Utah and California for 15 cents an acre. The land at issue is the third largest gold producing area in the world and is the site of the proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.

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