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On the 150th anniversary of the Navajo Treaty, young Navajo grapple with their traumatic history

On June 1, 1868, the Navajo Nation treaty was signed and almost immediately, the Navajo at Fort Sumner began the long journey home.

Water is life

Navajo women struggle to preserve traditions as climate change intensifies

Environment
Grand Escalante

US interior secretary recommends altering some national monuments for commercial use

Environment

Reflecting on Veterans Day with One of the Last Living Code Talkers

The World

Navajos Camp Out Against Coal

The World

Navajo Uranium Miners

Uranium mining in the southwest shut down a generation ago, but not soon enough for dozens of Navajo and other miners who died of lung cancer and many others suffering from respiratory diseases. A new mining company wants to start up uranium mining again and has promised it can do it safely. Living On Earth’s […]

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Navajo Uranium Miners: Giving Their All

One day in 1950, a Navajo man named Paddy Martinez picked up a few yellow rocks while herding sheep east of Crownpoint, New Mexico. His handful of ore turned out to be uranium. And the find, together with discoveries in Utah, sparked a series of mining booms that changed life forever in the southwest. By […]

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Phyllis Hogan: Portrait of an Ethnobotanist

Ethnobotanist Phyllis Hogan who, while non-Indian, lives and works among the Navajo and other southwestern United States tribes for the past twenty years brewing her particular mix of herbal respect and commerce. Sandy Tolan talks with Hogan and her Indian neighbors about her work and ways.

Navajo Nation Elections

The Navajo Nation is rich in coal, sun and wind; and the new Navajo president wants to use them all.

Yellow Dirt

Navajo country provided a significant share of the America’s Cold War uranium. But when the mining companies walked away, no one told people not to build houses out of the material left behind.