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The Navajo Nation deployed its police department to hold back trucks hauling uranium ore across tribal land. The action comes after the recent resumption of uranium mining at the Pinyon Plain (formerly Canyon) Mine in northwest Arizona. It is one of 600 uranium mines considered dormant because they aren’t financially viable. They are tied to numerous health conditions by citizens of Navajo and other nearby tribes. But new interest in nuclear energy is improving prices for raw ore. We’ll hear about tribes leveraging sovereignty to halt the mining and transport of uranium.
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Crystalyne Curley (Diné), Speaker of the Navajo Nation
Carletta Tilousi (Havasupai), former councilwoman for the Havasupai Tribe and member of the Uranium Mining Committee
Leona Morgan (Diné), co-founder of Haul No
Donovan Quintero (Diné), freelance reporter
Break 1 Music: Until We Break (song) Klee Benally (artist) Appropriation (album)
Break 2 Music: Our Mother the Earth [Feat. Dr. Duke Redbird] (song) Sultans of String (artist)
