DoomsdaysCW<p>Going to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShiprockFair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShiprockFair</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> Remembered the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumDump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumDump</span></a> on the Banks of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanJuanRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanJuanRiver</span></a></p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, August 29, 2024</p><p>SHIPROCK, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> -- "In his book published shortly before his passing, Klee Benally writes of going to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthernNavajoFair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernNavajoFair</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumDump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumDump</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shiprock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shiprock</span></a> that no one talks about. It is along the San Juan River, the same river that flooded this week, now eight months after Klee's passing.</p><p>"'The Northern Navajo Fair at Tsé Bit A'í (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShiprockNewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShiprockNewMexico</span></a>) has been held for more than one hundred years,' Klee writes in 'No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'</p><p>"Klee describes how the fair each fall marks the changing of the seasons and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/harvest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harvest</span></a>. He describes the neon glow of the carnival in the cold, dusty nights, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uniper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uniper</span></a> fires that burn.</p><p>"All of this revelry is held right on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumBoulevard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumBoulevard</span></a> just a couple miles from a massive 105-acre <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radioactive</span></a> dump containing 2.5 million tons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWaste</span></a> on a site that was a former <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMill</span></a> (which is just 600 feet from the San Juan River.)'</p><p>"The Shiprock Uranium Disposal Cell studies showed that more than 1.8 million liters of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>groundwater</span></a> were contaminated with uranium, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/selenium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selenium</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radium</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cadmium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cadmium</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sulfate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sulfate</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nitrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nitrate</span></a>.</p><p>"Now the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> again is targeted by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> Industry and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DebHaaland</span></a>'s radioactive agenda is being ignored. </p><p>"Speaking in Farmington, Interior Sec. Haaland said the transition to green energy in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourCorners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FourCorners</span></a> region will be led by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicBomb</span></a> industry, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAlamos</span></a> National Laboratory, which has already poisoned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pueblo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pueblo</span></a> lands in northern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a>. </p><p>"There is no mention of the fact that there is no safe way to store <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a>.<br>Now, adding to the layers of deception, the U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> is deceiving the public. The EPA doesn't actually clean up the uranium dumps and strewn <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveTailings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveTailings</span></a> from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> on the Navajo Nation -- it only announces plans and promises to do it.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EricJantz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EricJantz</span></a>, legal director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, told the Inter-American Commission on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> in March that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> has not completed any of the cleanups.</p><p>"There are 524 uranium mine sites waiting to be cleaned up on the Navajo Nation. Zero -- none of these -- have been fully cleaned up, Jantz told the international commission.<br>The truth is people seldom talk about the uranium dump at Shiprock because there is so much strewn radioactive waste, and so many unreclaimed uranium mines, with radioactive waste strewn from Cameron to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MonumentValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonumentValley</span></a>, and across the Four Corners region. </p><p>"During the 1990s, on assignment for USA Today, I talked with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dine</span></a>' in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedValley</span></a> and Cove, south of Shiprock, down the mountain from where I lived. In every family, there was cancer. In every family, someone was dying of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a>, or had already died, from cancer because of the uranium mining.</p><p>"One Dine' grandmother in her 80s was living in a stone home built of radioactive rock. We had a Geiger counter with us."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/going-to-shiprock-fair-klee-benally.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08</span><span class="invisible">/going-to-shiprock-fair-klee-benally.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenallyRIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenallyRIP</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenallyRestInPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenallyRestInPower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendingTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendingTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashng</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearWeapons</span></a></p>