Native Americans: Uranium Mining/ Nuclear Testing/ Nuclear Dumping

 Affected population

 Native Americans

 Dangers of Uranium

 Pollution of Past Mines: Church Rock

 Nuclear Testing in Nevada

 Nuclear Dumping: Yucca Mountain

 What you can do to help

Native Americans

The Indigenous people of the United States have lived in harmony with the earth for thousands of years. The exploits of the mining and nuclear companies directly violates their livelihoods. It poisons their land, air and food, and makes it impossible for them to live as they once did. The land which has been destroyed by nuclear testing and uranium mining has in the past always belonged to them, and is sacred. To see their earth being exploited in such a way breaks their hearts. In the words of Corbin Harney, who represents the struggle of the Western Shoshone people and all Native Americans, he speaks of the way all people should live.

“The nature put all the living things here for us to take care of, not to destroy them, but to work with them so that we may live with them for many more years…
Our Mother Earth is very important. Everything survives on our Mother, the only Mother we've got. We can't just misuse her and think she's going to continue. Let's not destroy the Mother Earth. Let's take care of her and she will take care of us. ”