Radioactive Sacrilege: The Devastating Tolls of the Nuclear Industry on Indigenous Communities

Members of multiple Indigenous tribes testified on February 28, 2024 during a thematic hearing on the impacts of uranium exploitation on the human rights of Indigenous peoples in the United States. The hearing was held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and allowed “Native communities who have lived for generations with the waste from historic uranium mining and milling to hold U.S. government officials to account in a public forum,” according to a press release.
Unicorn Riot interviewed Tonia Stands (Oglala Lakota) who testified at the hearing about the effects of uranium on her and other Indigenous communities. She spoke about the in-situ leach uranium mining, which is underground aquifer mining, and how that pollutes all the surrounding ground water and rivers.
"Today, dealing with these uranium mines, we don't have religious freedom. We don't have a right to clean water. We don't have a right to some of these sacred sites." - Tonia Stands
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[@andypitt2848]

Thank you for sharing this story 😢

[@SN-cs8cy]

Sociopaths are running our world right now. No empathy at all. I'm so sorry for you folks to be in this situation. I'm so angry with our our sociopathic Leaders for their bad decisions. What can I boycott? Is it electricity? May God help us find a way to change this.

[@rockpooladmirer]

it's not about 'sociopathy' it's about extractive industry and settler colonial capitalism.