This Month’s Superfund Listing of Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Navajo Nation’s Lukachukai Mountains Is a First Step Toward Cleaning Them Up

Uranium sickened Navajo who worked in the mines and contaminated the mountains where they hunted, grazed livestock and gathered plants for medicines and ceremonies.

By Noel Lyn Smith
April 17, 2024
Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News
Noel Lyn Smith

Noel Lyn Smith is a Diné (Navajo) reporter at Inside Climate News.

 
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