Shiprock and Northwestern New Mexico

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NAVAJO'S ACTING TO STOP URANIUM IN STATE.
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"The Dine'/Navajo... in Northwestern New Mexico... have a long and painful history of uranium mining dating back to the post-World War II push to use domestic uranium resources. Many companies hired Navajo men to work the mines but failed to protect them or even inform them of the known dangers of uranium. Hundreds died early deaths, and many miners have filed claims against the US government."

 

"One of the most critical but least known human rights stories in America is the savaging of Native American lands and its impact on Native peoples.  Nearly all Indian nations sit on land threatened by ruinous environmental hazards - toxic waste, strip mining, oil drilling, and nuclear contamination. The realities that the tribes live with are bleak -- children play near radioactive waste, rivers that tribes depend on for food are poisoned and reservations are completely surrounded by strip mines and smoke stacks spewing noxious fumes."  

HOMELAND: FOUR PORTRAITS OF NATIVE ACTION
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NAVAJO NATION PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL BANNING URANIUM MINING AND MILLING.
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"Uranium's a poison. If you inhale it, it leads to lung cancer; if you drink it, it can lead to kidney failure, renal failure. So, it doesn't matter how you come in contact with uranium: it is a poison."

"There were more than a thousand mining operations that took place on Navajo Nation. "  

DR. John Fogarty M.D., CHIEF OF STAFF,
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE HOSPITAL,
CROWNPOINT, NM
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ACTION ALERT!

BAN URANIUM MINING IN ALL OF NEW MEXICO

Contact New Mexico Senators Jeff Bingaman(D) and Pete Domenici (R), New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, as well as the Representatives, Senators, and governor of your own state, and let them know you support the Dine'/Navajo in their banning of uranium mining.

With Thanks to Lynnea Smith and all at ENDAUM-CCT, The KATAHDIN Foundation , Annette Aguayo and all at Southwest Research and Information Center