Aleut Native Corporation One of the largest nuclear weapons detonations by the US government occurred on Amchitka Island in 1971, the traditional homelands of the Aleut people. This egregious expression of nuclear colonialism has left radioactivity… Iñupiat Village of Point Hope During the Cold War, Point Hope residents faced numerous nuclear assaults against their lands. The first, Project Chariot, proposed to detonate a string of 5 nuclear weapons to create a harbor on… Natives of the Columbia Basin (Washington State) In 1943, the US government selected a location to serve as the primary plutonium production site for the Manhattan Project. This location, the Columbia Basin in Washington state, is on the homelands of the Wanapum Tribe, Navajo Nation The Navajo Nation has faced, and continues to face, ongoing nuclear and extractive development assaults on their lands, bodies, and communities. Uranium mining for the Manhattan Project and Atomic Energy Program has left Navajo lands and waters contminated with radioactivity. Non-Indian-owned mining… Western Shoshone The Western Shoshone tribal nation has faced numerous ongoing assaults against their lands and bodies. Unceded Western Shoshone lands, Newe Sogobia, encompasses 60 million acres spanning from from the Mojave desert in California all the way to southern Idaho through eastern Nevada [1…