Skull Valley Indian Reservation
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| A small Goshute Indian Reservation in Skull Valley, an isolated valley between Dugway Proving Ground and the West Desert Hazardous Industry Area. Seven households contain all of the approximately 30 Native Americans that live on the reservation, located a few miles south of Iosepa, the Polynesian ghost town/ former leper colony. Thousands of contaminated carcasses from a mysterious 1960's sheep die-off, later attributed to nerve gas testing at the proving ground, are buried on the reservation, many in unknown locations, making ranching unsafe. The only business, other than one small store on the highway, is the Tekoi Test Range, a rocket test site operated by AllianTech Systems, which is now only partially active. The Goshutes have proposed opening a high-level radioactive waste site for spent nuclear fuel rods from across the country, to a resistant state government. |
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Skull Valley
(POINT(-112.73002624512 40.396764305572))
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| The county road through Skull Valley connects to US 80 at exit 77, and to the south via State Highway 199, from the Tooele chemical weapons incinerator. |
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http://www.dced.state.ut.us/indian/Today/goshute.html
http://www.skullvalleygoshutes.org/
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