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As spiking uranium prices drive a surge of proposals for new mines, the Navajo Nation joined the Ute Mountain Ute, Havasupai, Northern Arapaho and Oglala Sioux tribes in a commission hearing with federal officials to push back against mining on and near their lands.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights heard about the contamination of Native American lands by uranium extraction and milling during a thematic hearing on Wednesday in Washington D.C. The commission streamed the hearing on its website as well as YouTube. Eric Jantz with New Mexico Environmental Law Center told the commission at the start of
The University of New Mexico-Gallup branch campus recently hosted a two-day meeting of the New Mexico Legislature’s interim Indian Affairs Committee during which the chancellor of the branch campus delivered an update on projects and programs in the.
Residents of a small Navajo Nation community are hopeful that some of the historic mine waste impacting their land and health will be hauled away. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Quivira Mine produced approximately 4.6 million pounds of uranium, making it the third largest uranium mine on Navajo Nation. As the uranium was hauled […]