More than 1,000 Native American people gathered in New Mexico to celebrate the 10th birthday of the Indigenous Environmental Network. The June gathering was held on the foothills of Mount Taylor, surrounded by the radioactive waste piles of Jackpile, the world’s largest uranium strip mine. The mine was worked by Atlantic Richfield/ Anaconda in the […]
Cate Gilles
Posted inJune 8, 1998: Don't fence me in
Navajos may say no to nuclear waste
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – As Congress wrangles over what to do with radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, opponents in the Southwest continue to create roadblocks to keep it out. Bills that would allow the Department of Energy to ship nuclear waste to Nevada’s Yucca Mountain by 2003 have passed in both the House and […]
Posted inMarch 31, 1997: Big Sky, big mess in Montana
Hopis tell Navajos: ‘Lease or leave’
Imagine waking up one morning and discovering you’re an illegal alien. That’s essentially what happened 23 years ago to more than 10,000 Navajos and 100 Hopis when Congress passed Public Law 93-531 – the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act. The bill was meant to reverse centuries of Navajo encroachment on Hopi land and to clarify reservation […]
Posted inSeptember 30, 1996: Can this man break the right's grip on Idaho?
Uranium poisons Navajo neighborliness
CROWNPOINT, N.M. – The water in this town on the eastern side of the Navajo Nation is so pure that people drive from as far as 80 miles to fill their barrels. But some fear it will be tainted if a proposed uranium mine gets approved next year. “All it will take is one accident […]