Posts Tagged ‘uranium mining’
Nuclear Impacts on Indigenous Communities in NM
8.18.23 – In Focus correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with Navajo anti-nuclear activist Leona Morgan to discuss how the state’s history of uranium mining and nuclear testing has caused irreparable damage to Indigenous communities across New Mexico. Morgan also talks about her thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and how that film ignores that history. Correspondent: Antonia…
Read MoreRadon Daughter Art Exhibit Reflects New Mexico’s Uranium Legacy
11.25.2022 – De Haven Solimon Chaffins grew up living with her grandparents on the Laguna Pueblo. The landscape there shaped her view of the world, the natural landscape and the Jackpile-Paguate Uranium Mine. This week, Chaffins sits down with Our Land Correspondent Laura Paskus to explain how her artwork explores the story of the mine…
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