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Arizona Sonoran News

Three researcher look over an abandoned mine on the Navajo Nation on Oct. 19, 2013. Uranium mining from the mid-1900s left over 500 unregulated mines scattered once mining stopped in 1986. 

Photo by David Begay

La contaminación de décadas de minería de uranio persiste en la tierra Navajo

Mar Ruiz April 4, 2017

En la tierra de la nación Navajo, el fantasma del pasado de la industria minera sigue persiguiendo a los nativos que viven ahí. Comenzó en la década de 1940 cuando las tierras navajo eran y siguen...

Contamination from decades of uranium mining lingers on Navajo land

Contamination from decades of uranium mining lingers on Navajo land

Lauren Renteria March 8, 2017

  On Navajo Nation land, the ghost of the mining industry’s past still haunts the native people who live there. It began in the 1940s when the Navajo land was — and still is — a...

Studio portrait of Native Americans Emma and Stephen Noyes. Photo by Will Wilson/Arizona Sonora News Service

Native American artists break down stereotypes

Cali Nash February 11, 2016

Consider the ubiquitous sepia portrait of an American Indian, donned in an elaborate headdress,  embodying a kind of displaced dignity. This image irks Will Wilson. The stereotypical depiction dates...

Photo of the Dragoon Mountains, home of Cochise Stronghold (Photo by: Tombstone Epitaph).

Cochise: Arizona’s legendary Chiricahua Apache leader

Zach Pleeter November 19, 2015

Edward R. Sweeney’s fascination with Cochise began at 10 years of age.As a little boy, Sweeney says he read a biography about the tribe leader and became captivated by him as a warrior, man and leader...

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