Ian Zabarte

Ian Zabarte is Shoshone from the Duckwater community. He is a graduate of UNLV, and currently an honorary research fellow at Liverpool University. In 1984 he became aware, then active, to stop nuclear testing. He is a founding member of the Native Community Action Council, to address the disproportionate risk to indigenous people of exposure to radioactive fallout. He has spoken at Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing meetings opposing the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump on Shoshone land.