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Host: Shawn Spruce
After decades of legal and political battles have pushed Nevada’s Yucca Mountain out of discussion as the permanent nuclear waste repository. But that means tribes like the Prairie Island Indian Community and the Yakama Nation in Washington will have to endure waste storage at temporary holding sites nearby.
GUESTS
Mike Childs Jr. (Prairie Island Indian Community) – treasurer for the Prairie Island Indian Community
Rose Ferri, project tracking, resource analyst, and cultural resource lead for the Yakama Nation’s Environmental Restoration Waste Management Program
Jonathan Perry (Diné) – director of the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining and president of the Becenti Chapter on the Navajo Nation
Jesse Deer In Water (citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) – community organizer for Citizens’ Resistance At Fermi Two, or “CRAFT”
BROADCAST-ONLY MUSIC BEDS (Tune In Live 1-2pm ET)
Break 1 music: For the Light (song) Digging Roots (artist) For the Light (song)
Break 2 music: Sisters (song) The Halluci Nation (artist) Nation II Nation (album)
