Abandoned Uranium Mines Plague Navajo Nation

The mesas of Monument Valley rise deep red on the horizon. We are in Diné Bikéyah, land of the Navajo.

"This is John Wayne country," trained Navajo guide Gregory Holiday repeats his lines for an enchanted group of tourists. The view opens boundless to the sacred land of the Diné people, but for visitors it is presented as the iconic west of cowboys and Americana.

The sun sets and the last traveler boards the bus to leave Navajo Nation and head back to Flagstaff and into US-governed territory. With the bus' departure, Gregory's role as the light-hearted Indian guide ends. We take a gravel road to his home in the village of Oljato. During the jolty ride the rehearsed stories of Wild West heroes shift to memories of deceased loved ones.

"My daughter loved to ride her motorbike in the desert," he says.

Two years ago Gregory's daughter died of lung cancer. Her child, Gregory's granddaughter, was a victim of Navajo neuropathy, a rare condition named after the only population in which it occurs. For those suffering from the disease, limbs begin to tingle, then lose all sense of touch, and eventually appear curled as claws. Ultimately, the victim dies of liver failure. One study put the average age of death at 10. First described in medical literature in 1976, there is no cure.

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So sickening! And finally they are beginning to admit that the genocide against Indian people is far from over, especially considering the FACT that young children are dying of liver failure from "Navajo neuropathy" as they call it.

It should be called GENOCIDE as that is the correct word for it!

When will this ever stop? Answer: When all Indian people are dead and gone which won't be anytime soon so the answer is NEVER!!