Navajo communities along the 174-mile stretch of the uranium haul route on Diné lands say the tribe and mining company are failing to share crucial safety info
Protestors gathered in the Navajo capital to raise awareness of what they said were threats to their freedoms.
Uranium ore shipments will resume
The case has seemingly few clues and the family has little means to return man's remains to their Navajo homeland in New Mexico.
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday,
Curley was first elected speaker two years ago as a freshman council member. She was the first woman elected to the post.
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA, provides a program that compensates individuals who become ill because of exposure to radiation from the United States’ development and testing of nuclear weapons.
The Navajo Nation has reached a settlement with a mining company that clears the way for transportation of uranium ore across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. The agreement announced Wednesday settles a dispute over trucking ore from a mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon to a mill site in Utah.
Colorado-based Energy Fuels will enhance some of its safety standards for shipping uranium from its mine near Grand Canyon National Park through the Navajo Nation, to its processing plant in southern Utah.
Social media reports of Navajo citizens being detained by ICE prompted Navajo leaders to explore ways to protect their people.
An official with the Navajo Nation says it appears once again Native Americans are being victimized in cases of mistaken identity as the Trump administration moves to crack down on alleged illegal migrants.
Navajo Nation officials say at least 15 tribal members in Arizona have been wrongfully detained and questioned during the immigration sweeps.