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A tear rolls down the face of an American Indian riding a horse through the country's polluted streets in a 1970s television commercial.


If it were updated, the chief might be sobbing. According to federal reports, 650 solid-waste disposal sites and 2 million tons of radioactive uranium contaminate Indian territory across the United States.

``Indian people have been getting screwed ever since Columbus arrived on these shores,'' says Sheridan Murphy, executive director of the American Indian Movement's Florida chapter in St. Petersburg.

Indians were America's first victims of environmental racism.

Indians combat abuse of territory
By TRACIE REDDICK
of The Tampa Tribune
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    originally here:  http://www.alphacdc.com/ien/ward1029.html
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