Feds plan bombing range on sacred site

0 Comments | Indian Country Today (Lakota Times), August, 1994 | by Bunty Anquoe

Bunty Anquoe Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 08-17-1994 Feds plan bombing range on sacred site. By Bunty Anquoe Today Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- The Senate Appropriations Committee last week blocked funds for a new Air Force bombing range in Southwest Idaho that would have destroyed an 8,000-year-old sacred site of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes. Sen.

Harry Reid, D-Nev., a member of the committee, led opposition to the Air Force's plan to exchange land with the state of Idaho to create the range. He argued that such an exchange would have circumvented an act of Congress and would have demolished sacred religious sites on aboriginal lands of the Shoshone Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley reservation in northern Nevada. Sen. Reid cited economic and...