Every complex issue has more than two sides. Many voices can be raised, each with a targeted area of interest or concern. This section of our Web site is designed to introduce you to the arguments of several of the principle participants in the debate over storage of high level radioactive waste in Utah's Skull Valley.

The Skull Valley Band of the Goshute Indian Tribe is at the very center of the issue. Tribal leaders first started exploring the possibility of hosting a nuclear waste storage site in the early 1990s at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Energy. The tribe now maintains a strongly pro-nuclear storage Web site, which outlines tribal history and commitment to the project.

Additional information is available through the video clips and the interview transcripts with tribal Chairman Leon Bear and former tribal counsel, attorney Danny Quintana.

To understand the voice of opposition that exists within the Skull Valley Band of the Goshute Indian Tribe, you can review the interview transcript and a video clip of our conversation with tribal member Sammy Blackbear.

View 1863 Treaty

The Treaty of 1863. . .the instrument signed by Abraham Lincoln recognizing the Goshute right to remain masters of their traditional land, and masters of their destiny.