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Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

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...

Edison Eskeets measures one of the rugs a local weaver has brought to sell to Hubbell Trading Post National Site. Eskeets is the post’s trader.

Navajo rugs: More than just a pretty base

Karen Schaffner April 28, 2016

GANADO – Maggie Mannie, 83, assisted by her tall, strapping grandson, walked into Hubbell Trading Post with business on her mind. In one hand she held her cane and in the other, two rolled-up weavings,...

Members of Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation wear traditional costumes at festival

Native Americans take a stand at the Super Bowl

Megan Zamiska January 28, 2015

Arizona’s Native American tribes want a piece of the Super Bowl. “What better time to advertise than the Superbowl?” said Debra Krol, senior communications manager at the Heard Museum and member...

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