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Our Native People
Have Lost Another Elder

by Tom Goldtooth, National Coordinator
Indigenous Environmental Network
Wednesday, March 31, 1999

Indigenous Environmental Network Statement on Bill Rosse, Sr.
Our Native People have lost another elder, treaty rights and environmental justice activist. Bill Rosse Sr. brought the Western Shoshone perspective to the the Yucca mountain and nuclear test site issue. Bill Rosse Sr. participated in the early years of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) Protecting Mother Earth gatherings and many other meetings until his health held him back from traveling too much. Bill brought attention to the fight of the Western Shoshone communities to protect their lands, prevent any further nuclear bombing of Shoshone lands, address radioactive health affects and stop nuclear dumping at Yucca mountain. IEN extends our condolences and prayers to the relatives and friends of this great man that was one of the elders that we looked up to that helped guide the work we do.
IEN last visited with Bill Rosse, Sr. during last years Healing Global Wounds gathering at the test site in Nevada. It was good to see him in strong spirit and talk about old times. We also talked about the Native environmental justice movement and the need to motivate the younger Shoshone, Paiute and all Native younger generation to get more involved in these issues. Bill Rosse, Sr. spoke out for many years and traveled to the four corners of Mother Earth educating people about the human right violations of the Western Shoshone Nation.
We will miss him, his guitar and singing, but his wisdom and memory will continue in the hearts and mind of the Indigenous Environmental Network and all people that remember his devotion to the work he believed in.

Indigenous Environmental Network - National Office
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