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Final Report, Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment
Final Report, Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment
Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment
The basic need that provoked the idea of doing a comprehensive community based health survey began with several questions that are normally asked by the Navajo people and uranium workers. 1) Is there a relationship between radioactive contamination and the increased health problems facing Navajo people living in the Eastern Navajo Agency? 2) Are these increased health problems due to the fact that they live in close proximity to 166 uranium mines and 5 mills located in this area? 3) Why are the sheep herders dying from cancer much the same as uranium workers – could it be because they …
Research On Health, Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, Norma Nager
Research On Health, Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, Norma Nager
Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment
The report presented here is a description of activities for the first year of an investigation of the health and environmental effects of radioactive contamination caused by working in and/or living near the now abandoned uranium mining and milling operations. Its focus is on McKinley County, New Mexico and its surrounding area, the location of the Eastern Navajo Agency (ENA). Whether environmental and health problems experienced by people living in the ENA are the result of their having worked in uranium mills, lived near and still living close to sources of radiation contamination is the question. Uranium mines in the …