We need to heal ourselves. Don't think it's going to happen in two years. Most nuclear weapons have been detonated on native peoples. There have been 100 proposals to dump toxic wastes on native peoples in last few years. All but two have been fended off.
Native communities are very much in the center of America's industrial and nuclear policy.
Forest and native issues intersect in crucial ways. LaDuke noted that one-third of native reservations are wooded. She outlined the situation of her tribe, which heavily relies on forests both on and off reservation for medicines, baskets, hunting, maple syrup, housing and fishing. Native subsistence rights have been recognized in the upper third of Minnesota and Wisconsin. These lands have just recovered from being clearcut 100 years ago by wood products companies that remain giants today.