Burned by the Ore, by Brenda Norrell

2003-08-18 | Cold war uranium mines left Indians with towns of widows.

Gilbert Badoni holds a photo of his family taken in a Colorado uranium mining camp during the Cold War. Gilbert, in the lower left of the photo, said his father died of cancer from the mining and now his mother, two brothers and sister, all in the photo, have cancer. Gilbert has lung disease. He said the United States government used Navajo as guineas pigs and knew unprotected Navajo miners would die. Photo Brenda Norrell Please click on photo to enlarge. Please continue...