Dann and her sister Mary have been a focal point of a dispute over land since the government sued them in 1974 for grazing livestock on federal land. LAND OF THE BRAVE, the third and final film of the Western Shoshone Trilogy, documents Western Shoshone life and survival over the past 20 years and their fight to protect their land and way of life. What is needed now are hearings on and support for the extension and funding of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 2019. With the Ruby Valley Treaty, signed in 1863, the USA formally recognised two thirds of Nevada State as Western Shoshone sovereign territory. Racism is a crime. Western Shoshone land stolen for nuclear weapons tests and waste dump, By Ian Zabarte Shoshone land was illegally seized by the U.S government, breaking a historic treaty, first for the atomic test site in Nevada, and then for the planned — but still canceled — Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump.Throughout, the Shoshone people have paid a terrible price. . As a result of the Treaty, the Great Western Shoshone Nation was divided into nine bands. Go to our summaries of significant submissions, conveniently listed in alphabetical order at Kimba waste dump submissions   or see all submissions listed at Read the Submissions. In 1979 the US Court of Claims awarded $26 million for the taking of Western Shoshone land, but more than 80 per cent of the Western Shoshone people voted against accepting the money. The Doty treaties were entered into by the US with the Shoshone. The lucrative fur trade and the gold rush in California brought a deluge of emigrants and settlers traveling the California Trail, many of whom claimed these prime plots of land for themselves. In 1985 the US Supreme Court ruled in the US v. Dann that the appropriation of funds by Congress and the acceptance by the Secretary of the Interior constitutes "payment" and effects Section 70 U of the ICC Act and forever bars further claims and Western Shoshone title is 'presumed to be extinguished', but the tribes have left the money with the government. Disputes over tribal land and the international recognition by the United Nations[4] of their struggle against the United States government is documented in the 2008 film American Outrage. "the treaty is in full force and effect"[3] The United States failed to make any, but the first payment. During the American Civil War 1861-1864, gold was needed from the west by the Union to prosecute the war against the south. Western Shoshone land stolen for nuclear weapons tests and waste dump, By Ian Zabarte Shoshone land was illegally seized by the U.S government, breaking a historic treaty, first for the atomic test site in Nevada, and then for the planned — but still canceled — Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump. By the 1850's many settlers were moving onto the Shoshone land. In 1974 the Shoshones at Battle Mountain formed the Western Shoshone Legal Defense and Educational Association, replaced in 1976 by the Western Shoshone Sacred Lands Association, to challenge the Federal Government and education the public. The Shoshone people are committed to the enforcement of law in the service of justice and human dignity. My livelihood was taken and the Shoshone economy destroyed by the BLM. Most western states comprising the Great Basin were created by federal statutes that referenced that "no part of Indian country will be included into the boundaries or jurisdiction of any state or territory ...without the consent of the Indians".