2022-11-29 08:00:00
First the Americans mined uranium in Navajo territory, then they tested nuclear weapons. Finally, in 1979, the largest nuclear accident in US history occurred on the reservation. The Native Americans are still suffering from the effects of the radiation today.
“The Americans won World War II thanks to two things: the atomic bomb and the encryption codes. Both came from the Navajo Reservation here,” says David Lee Neztsosie. The 70-year-old is a Navajo himself, so he belongs to the Native Americans. He is sitting at his sister Lula’s table in a remote wooden house near Cameron, on the edge of the Painted Desert.
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