Manataka American Indian Council

      HEALTH WATCH

U.S. Government Planning Mass Poisonings on Reservations!

U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) recently announced that the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairman’s Health Board will receive $249,996 in funding for dental health care, specifically early childhood caries prevention and water fluoridation.

Medicating specific mass populations with unneeded, unnecessary and potentially harmful chemicals is wrong!

The Manataka American Indian Council adamantly opposes efforts of the U.S. government to force Indian people living on reservations to consume potentially lethal doses of a chemical by-product called fluoride for the following five reasons:

• Fluoride kills animals, birds, fish and insects – damages plant life.  Government studies from around the world prove fluoride has a devastating affect on the animal and plant kingdoms.   There is no way to keep public water from being consumed by animals, birds, fish and insects. What will fluoride do to vegetable gardens, cattle, and family pets?   What you do to Mother Earth, you do to yourself.

• Mass medicating the public is morally wrong!  Mandated treatment of the public in the absence of any public health threat such as epidemic disease is just plain wrong. The government does not have the right to mandate fluoride injection into our bodies.

• Fluoride does not prevent tooth decay.   Scientific reports show there is not sufficient evidence to prove fluoride is effective in preventing tooth caries.

• Toothpaste companies warn against swallowing fluoride toothpaste (read the side panel of any toothpaste  box).  Putting fluoride in public water is contrary to the advice of every dental product company.  Fluoride toothpaste is intended to be spit out - not swallowed like drinking water.

• Fluoride is not approved by the Food & Drug Administration for consumption by humans. 

More reasons:

• Fluorosilicic acid, otherwise known by its short name, fluoride is not a natural substance.  This highly toxic chemical is a waste product that is scraped off the smokestacks of industrial polluters.  The cost of disposing of this substance would cost industries billions -- but not if they can put it into water systems.

• This material is a toxic waste that's regulated by the EPA. It would be illegal to drip it into a river or a stream, but for some reason, it is perfectly legal to drip it into the public water supply and let people drink it. It's a bizarre cycle of rationalization that can only be called medical lunacy.

• The Environmental Protection Agency's Employees Union has consistently voted against fluoridation.  Why?

The following reservations will be affected:

Cheyenne River Reservation

Crow Creek/Lower Brule Reservation

Fort Berthold Reservation

Fort Totten Reservation

Lake Traverse Reservation

Pine Ridge Reservation

Rapid City Indian Community

Rosebud Reservation

Standing Rock Reservation

Turtle Mountain Reservation

Yankton Reservation

Stop this ugly assault and further genocide of our people!

Contact the following Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board Members:

Harold Frazier Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 590 Eagle Butte, SD 57625		Ron His Horse is Thunder Standing Rock Sioux Tribe P.O. Box D Ft. Yates, ND 58538		Duane Big Eagle Crow Creek Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 50 Ft. Thompson, SD 57339
Rodney Bordeaux Rosebud Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 430 Rosebud, SD 57570		Tex Hall Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikira Nation HC-3, Box 2 NewTown, ND 58763		Mark Allen Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe 603 W. Broad Ave. Flandreau, SD 57028
Homer Bear Sac & Fox Tribe of The Mississippi 349 Meskwaki Road Tama, IA 52339-9629		Cynthia LaCounte Trenton Indian Service Area P.O. Box 210 Trenton, ND 58853		Michael Jandreau Lower Brule Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 187 Lower Brule, SD 57548
Roger Trudell Santee Sioux Nation 425 Frazier Ave. North, Suite 2 Niobrara, NE 68760		Ken Davis Turtle Mtn. Band of Chippewa P.O. Box 900 Belcourt, ND 58316		Alex White Plume Oglala Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 5011 Pine Ridge, SD 57770
J.C. Crawford Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate P.O. Box 509 Agency Village, SD 57262		John Blackhawk Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska P.O. Box 687 Winnebago, NE 68071		Eleanor Baxtor Omaha Tribe of Nebraska P.O. Box 368 Macy, NE 68039
Myra Pearson Spirit Lake Nation P.O. Box 359 Ft. Totten, ND 58335		Robert Cournoyer Yankton Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 248, 100 Main St. Marty, SD 57361		Mark Peniska Ponca Tribe of Nebraska P.O. Box 288 Niobrara, NE 68760

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