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Oglala Sioux Nation members file a case against the U.S. for its use of untested pesticides and vaccines.

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In particular, they charge the U.S. government with spraying untested pesticides on their corn, and injecting an experimental hepatitis vaccine into the bodies of people in their community–neither of which had been approved for use in the United States.