and the navajo are far from the only native people to face a similar situation an estimated seventy percent of the world's uranium deposits are located on indigenous lands. activist vanessa brown is one of the many navajos to have lost family members to cancer. for decades she's been fighting for change. to our nation the navajo nation used to have the largest birthrate. in the nation and now we find we have the highest defect and a lot of it is due to. the strip mining of these these elements that are dangerous . to our people the land animals and the water affects everything. vanessa grew up on the doorstep of a uranium processing. back