Fred Peso

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In his opposition to Wendell Chino’s proposed nuclear waste program on Mescalero lands in the early 1990s, former vice president of the tribal council Fred Peso also employed the language of tribal self-determination. He argued that for the Mescalero people to remain free of mandates from the Federal Government, they needed to reject the nuclear waste proposal–no matter what its short-term economic benefits might be.