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@DrX_ADunlap @judithverweijen @PolEcoNet @EnvJustice @Env_Pol @Andrea__CJN @Anthropogo @blackhawk_exile @DecoloniseGeog @HGJournal @PeterGelderloos This use by Russell Means was a not a metaphor, but an actual quote. European settler society, speaking through a 1974 National Academy of Sciences report _Rehabilitation Potential of Western Coal Lands_ had used the term.
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@DrX_ADunlap @judithverweijen @PolEcoNet @EnvJustice @Env_Pol @Andrea__CJN @Anthropogo @blackhawk_exile @DecoloniseGeog @HGJournal @PeterGelderloos Here's the original context, by which the NAS proposed that "Abandon the Spoils" be the "rehabilitation goal" for strip mining in low-rainfall areas. archive.org/details/rehabilitationpo0000nati/page/86/mode/2up?q=sacrifice&view=theater
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@DrX_ADunlap @judithverweijen @PolEcoNet @EnvJustice @Env_Pol @Andrea__CJN @Anthropogo @blackhawk_exile @DecoloniseGeog @HGJournal @PeterGelderloos A longer history of the Federal decisionmaking, dating to 1971, appears in Ward Churchill's Agents of Repression at p. 131-133.




