Take those rods and ... (On The Line).Skull Valley Reservation, Utah Anti-nuclear activists converged on the Skull Valley Goshute The Goshutes are a Native American tribe that once numbered 20,000. Only 500 remain. The name Goshute derived either from a leader named Goship or from Gutsipupiutsi, a Shoshonean word for Desert People. Reservation in Utah's Great Basin Great Basin, semiarid, N section of the Basin and Range province, the intermontane plateau region of W United States and N Mexico. Lying mostly in Nevada and extending into California, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah, it is bordered by the Sierra Nevada on the west, the on October 6 and 7 to protest plans to store high levels of nuclear waste there. In 1997, leaders of the Goshute Tribe tribe [Lat., tribus: the tripartite division of Romans into Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans], a social group bound by common ancestry and ties of consanguinity and affinity; a common language and territory; and characterized by a political and economic signed an agreement with a consortium of nuclear power utilities known as Private Fuel Storage to store 40,000 tons of spent nuclear rods, shipped from plants in the East and Midwest, on reservation land for up to twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. . Margene Bullcreek, an anti-nuke activist who lives on the reservation, located fifty miles southwest of Salt Lake City, says, "The nuclear dump will threaten our tribe's health, culture, traditions, and reservation community life." For more information on the Nuclear Free Great Basin Campaign, contact Reinard Knutsen at (801) 359-2614. |
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