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Search results for "Navajo" ...
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Yellow Dirt
The radioactive "yellow dirt" -- a world class deposit of uranium under the Navajo reservation in the American Southwest -- lay beneath an earthen shield until the U.S. government cam calling, desperate to make atomic bombs. The book reveals ow the government looked away as miners, and then the neighbors were exposed to uranium's dangers.
Tags: Native Americans; yellow dirt; atomic bomb; uranium; environment
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Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
This book reveals how the U.S. government consciously looked away as miners, and then the neighbors, were exposed to uranium's dangers as it was mined on a Navajo reservation, in a slow-motion environmental catastrophe that last for decades and continues today.
Tags: uranium; radiation; mining; Navajo; Indian reservation; yellow cake; yellow dirt; EPA; Environmental Protection Agency; Indian Health Service; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Atomic Energy Commission; National Cancer Institute; environmental pollution; environmental disaster; nuclear power; atomic bomb
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Navahoax
Fleischer's investigation into the memoirs of Nasdijj, a writer who claims to be Native American. In his award winning memoirs, Nasdijj claims to be of Navajo descent and to have lived a life of tremendous poverty and suffering. In reality Nasdijj is Tim Barrus, a middle class white man with a history as a pornographer. His falsified story borrows heavily from authentic Native American writers.
Tags: Native Americans; identity fraud; memoirs; Navajo; fabrications; internet investigation;
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Blighted Homeland
During the Cold War, the federal government, seeking to increase its nuclear arsenal, mined uranium on a Navajo reservation that spanned parts of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, with 3.9 million tons of uranium ore chiseled and blasted from the mountains between 1944 to 1986. Fifty years after a medical journal noted an almost complete lack of cancer on the reservation, that mining left a mark that still persists today. The L.A. Times finds that "groundwater is contaminated, gray mine wastes cascade down hillsides and erosion exposes once-buried radiation at reclaimed mines and illegal dump sites." Some Navajos have suffered from lung and breast cancer, attributable to the harsh conditions created by the mining. Now uranium is once again rising in price, and mining companies are preparing to move in again, this time with new technology. But still with environmental consequences.
Tags: Uranium; uranium mining; Navajo reservation; cancer rates; Cold War; environmental effects of mining
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The Measure of man
This investigation looked at animal welfare in New Mexico, including the Navajo and Pueblo lands in the state. Nelson showed how activists are trying to lower the number of animals that die each year from negligence and abuse. Nelson compared New Mexico's policies to those in Colorado and in Native communities. The stories also cover the controversial issue of cockfighting.
Tags: animal abuse; animal shelters; euthanasia; spay; neuter; breeders
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Dividing the Sky
The Arizona Republic did a four-part series on the relocation of Native Americans. Months were spent visiting Navajo and Hopi reservations in northeastern Arizona and interviewing "some of the last remaining traditional Indians in the continental United States."
Tags: Navajo; hopi; reservations; federal relocation; federal aid; Native Americans; American Indians; land dispute
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Wrong side of the fence
In the latest of blows to Navajos from northeastern Arizona, 13,000 members have been forced to relocate after they found out they had been living on the side of the Navajo-Hope Joint Use Area owned by the Hopi tribe. As the deadline nears for the move, a thousand or so are refusing to move. This story traces the history of the region, and how Congress, the coal industry, and a lingering land dispute have led to the situation.
Tags: Navajos; Native Americans; minorities; relocation; joint use area
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Navajo Ethics Investigator
Investigator for the Navajo Nation Ethics and Rules Office was found to have a background of DWI arrests and had served prison time for molesting his teenage daughter.
Tags: None
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Navajo Times (Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Ariz.) reveals how Native Americans were the first and most used group for experiments by the federal government with radiation; countless Indian communities have documented severe abuses by the experimentors, Jan. 13, 1994.
Tags: AZ Taliman Department of Defense Uranium Nevada Test Site 2 pages
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% Outside magazine reviews the unexplained death of Leroy Jackson, a Navajo environmentalist and leader of Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment. Jackson had angered people within the tribe and without for advocating environmental and wildlife protection over jobs, May, 1994.