Jeremiah’s people have endured a trail of broken treaties, frequently seeing their lands strip-mined, their forests uprooted, and their waters polluted. Practically all nuclear dumping in the United States is done on reservations—with accompanying elevated cancer rates. Native Americans and other minority populations endure the brunt of industrial pollution in impoverished urban neighborhoods, causing asthma, rashes, and the like—especially among children and the elderly.21
