Corbin Harney, 87; tribal leader opposed nuclear waste site
Corbin Harney, 87, a spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone who challenged the federal government by opposing nuclear weapons on aboriginal land, died Tuesday of complications from cancer near Santa Rosa, Calif., according to his family.
Harney, a medicine man who lived in Owyhee, Nev., near the Idaho border, was often a participant at anti-nuclear rallies and traveled around the world as a speaker and environmentalist.
In recent years he led protests against Yucca Mountain, a high-level nuclear waste repository planned for a remote area northwest of Las Vegas that his tribe called Snake Mountain.
In the late 1990s, Harney established a traditional healing retreat called Poo Ha Bah at an area of mineral hot springs in Tecopa, Calif., near the south entrance to Death Valley.
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Peter Harrison, an older brother of late Beatle George Harrison, died of cancer June 1 at a hospital in England, according to British news reports. A caretaker at his younger brother’s Friar Park estate near Henley-on-Thames since the 1970s, he was 66. George Harrison died of cancer in 2001 at age 58.
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