Much of the United States' nuclear weapons testing has occured at the Nevada test site on Western Shoshone lands, known as Newe Sogobia. Between 1951 and 1992, the US conducted both atmospheric and underground nuclear tests, detonating more than 1,000 nuclear weapons.[1] These nuclear tests sent radioactive fallout into the air and left the ground and water contaminated with radioactive waste. This radioactive fallout has created ongoing health risks for residents downwind of the test site.[2] Ian Zabarte (Principle Man for the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians) describes the United States' designation of Shoshone homalends as a national sacrifice zone a "secret massacre of Shoshone people with radioactive poison."[3]