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Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney, 87, Dies

HeadlineJul 16, 2007

And the Western Shoshone Nation spiritual leader Corbin Harney is being buried today. He died last week at the age of 87. He campaigned against nuclear weapons, opposed nuclear testing on indigenous lands and fought the federal government’s attempt to place nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain. He was the author of the book “The Way It Is: One Water, One Air, One Earth.”

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