The Effect of Environmental Racism

This research paper is about the destruction of American Indians was one of the most massive acts of genocide in the U.S. I found numerous research studies that described the situation. The population had been reduced to 2.4% of the original numbers, and 98% of the aboriginal land base had been expropriated. I think it is important to let everyone know that Native American have the highest rate of suicide of any ethnic group in the U.S. I want to inform the poorest health issues and numbers of environmental hazards that have been imposed upon Native lands from the U.S government and also, show how the environmental racism can do a genocide. Recent studies show that poverty and lack of empowerment is a real sign of ecological racism than others. The genocide of Native American through environmental destruction.

Environmental racism can be defined as the placement of low-income or minority communities next to the ecological hazardous or degraded environments, one such example, toxic waste, pollution (Google dictionary). Most of us know that Americans Indian populations living the life in an unhealthy environment and suffer huge environmental injustice. My research will involve in why American Indian populations have the most miserable health issues and numbers of environmental hazards that have imposed upon Native lands. What kind of name do we use to describe the crime that the U.S Government applied upon the Native American?. I learned that Native Americans were victims of the highest genocide occurred in the USA, which had an estimate of 19 million dead. I was amazed, though somewhat disappointed, that I hadn’t heard these things before. Doing so should provide a clearer picture of the state of Native American genocide studies.

American Indian societies are faced with many significant environmental problems and suffer substantial ecological inequality both regarding production and of distribution because of the poverty and extraordinary vulnerability of the community (Brook, D 1998) . It is essential to consider the phenomenon of environmental dangers

in Native American areas since they affect the condition of life for American Indian societies and trigger a social explosion. From my research, I have found that environmental racism regarding production and of distribution are the primary point of the environmental genocide.

The effect of environmental racism and exploitation on reproductive and family health in Native communities make them destitute and vulnerable. The US government and the big box corporations treat the Native Americans like savages by exposed commercial hazardous waste sitting where they lives. Chemical garbage emanating from specific localities has contaminated waterways on tribal areas also polluted fish, which are a staple of several Indian diets.The government takes advantage of the devastating chronic unemployment to kill them. In fact, the United States government dump most of the dangerous waste from “the nation’s 110 commercial nuclear power plants”.

Also, the illegal dumping was occurring on reservations. They have been called “midnight dumpers” and “Native entrepreneur”. They are working as corporations and people who secretly dump the waste on reservations don't have access from tribal government. The majority of Indians communities suffer from the problem of open dumping on tribal lands. This issue is much concern than the distant prospect of a commercial waste disposal facility. I got an examples, the Mescalero Apache areas in 1991, the first state that applies for a U.S. Energy Department grant “ to study the feasibility of building a temporary storage for 15000 metric tons of highly radioactive spent fuel.

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