Our focus today is Land and Water Protection. Native American Indigenous People have long believed that we should be thinking of the Generations to come and of our Ancestors who came before us. Today we will be hearing Native American Indigenous Women from across the United States. They each will be sharing their concerns about how we are treating Mother Earth and what we can do Together to protect Her.
Part 1 of this 2 part series profiles Native Women that are Walking, Praying, and Educating their communities on the realities of living in the Nuclear Fuel Chain.
Listen to the women that are fighting the uranium contamination on their lands from where it is taken out of the ground in the southwest to where it is stored in the east.
Then travel to the Bay Area where it is used at Livermore labs in California at the risk to the local community.
Then the work that is being done to stop nuclear weapons by the international community at the UN.
Interviewees include:
Rita Mae Bilagody. from Tuba City, (Dine) Navajo Elder
Shayla Blachford , Navajo, Founder of the Anti Uranium Mapping Project, info@antiuraniummapping project
Becki Jones, Navajo, Program Manage for Native Community Health Network, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Affiliate based out of Albuquerque, becki.jones@pprm.org
Maria Maybee, Seneca, Peace Walk New York
Marylia Kelley, Senior Adviser at Tri-Valley Cares: Communities Against Radioactive Environments, Livermore, Ca
Leona Morgan, Navajo. Founding Member of Haul No, an organization that has been opposed to the mining and transportation of uranium ore on the Navajo Nation.
Haul No has been supporting the women of the Havasupai, Navajo and Ute Nations that are opposed to the mining and transport. stopcanyonmine@gmail.com
Produced by Morning Star Gali, Loyen Redhawk, & Sabah Williams
Engineered by Cathy Jackson
Songs by Nikki Skinway & Sabah Williams assisted by Deon Lyons
