This story was originally published by Arizona Mirror. Kathleen Tsosie remembers seeing her dad come home every evening with his clothes covered in dirt. As a little girl, she never questioned why, and she was often more excited to see if he had any leftover food in his lunchbox. “We used to go through his lunch and eat whatever he didn’t eat,” Tsosie said, recalling when she was around 4 years…
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Protesters gathered on November 26 to oppose Vimy Resources’ proposal to mine uranium at Mulga Rock, reports Sam Wainwright.
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Greenland’s Inatsisartut (parliament) passed a law on November 9, reinstating the country’s ban on the prospecting, exploration and exploitation of uranium, reports Peter Boyle.
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Within weeks, Greenland’s parliament is expected to pass a bill reinstating a ban on uranium mining that was lifted in 2013 under pressure from mining companies, reports Peter Boyle.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is wiping out Indigenous elders and with them the cultural identity of Indigenous communities in the United States. But on lands that sprawl across a vast area of the American West, the Navajo (or Diné) are dealing not just with the pandemic, but also with another, related public health crisis. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says COVID-19 is killing Native Americans at nearly three times the rate of whites, and on the Navajo Nation itself, about 30,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus and roughly 1,000 have died. But among the Diné, the coronavirus is also spreading through a population that decades of unsafe uranium mining and contaminated groundwater has left sick and vulnerable.
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