mining, is terrifying. The market research firmGrand View Research saystoxins includingnitric acid, mercury,sulfuric acid, cyanide, lead, and uranium are used to produce the chemicals actually used in mining. These areall well-known poisons, some of which are ...
Like the Aztecs, the Pueblo, Navajo and Apache tribes cherished turquoise for its amuletic use; the latter tribe believe the stone to afford the archer dead aim. In Navajo culture it is used for "a spiritual protection and blessing."[31] Among these peoples turquoise was used in mosaic ...
The Navajo People and Uranium Mining By focusing on the oral histories of the miners, as well as their families and widows, this book carves out a niche in nuclear history. It also examines the quotidian experiences of the people who worked with radioactive materials... J Richter - 《Oral...
Statisticians studying the health effects of uranium mining on Navajo communities have found others besides miners and millworkers to be affected; birth defects, children’s cancer, and altered birth ratios of males and females are much higher...
The first argues that the disproportionate focus of uranium prospectors and miners in the 1950s relied on constructions in federal cartography and agronomic discourse of Navajo land as "worthless" for agriculture- and grazing-based economies. The second argues that resistance to the urani...
The next viewpoint was near the top of Moki Dugway, a series of dirt switchbacks rising 1200', built by uranium miners in the 1950s to transport ore between Cedar Mesa and Mexican Hat. Julian Heppekausen with his original-paint BSA Thunderbolt, that burbled like a champ all weekend. [...
Challenging the state’s sluggish past, the energy sector has led the recent turnaround in state output. Mining has long been a major industry in New Mexico. Miners historically sought out precious metals as well as fuel resources, such as coal and uranium. More recently, hydraulic… ...
And during the American Civil War, he led a Union regiment of mostly Hispanic volunteers from New Mexico at the Battle of Valverde in 1862 and later led forces to suppress the Navajo, Mescalero Apache, and the Kiowa and Comanche Indians. Georgia O’Keeffe is often well known for her ...
The U.S. government has historically ignored or denied the dangers of radioactive fallout from testing. It has been caught in a web of lawsuits from soldiers to ranchers and uranium miners to Native Americans. According to a Reuters article dated 4/12/2000:"The U.S. government reversed deca...
"The Navajo Nation tries to come to terms with a growing garbage problem that has led to numerous illegal dumps on the reservation." (Paul Natonobah, High Country News 29(15). August 18, 1997). Navajo Uranium Miners Fight for Compensation (Timothy Sr. Benally, Nic Paget-Clarke, intervi...