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| Havasupai Dianna Uqualla speaking in Tuba City. Screenshot by Censored News |
Havasupai Elder Dianna Uqualla: Uranium Mining Contamination is Here, Hold on to Your Ancestral Ways
"Stay strong, no matter what the world throws at us, we survive."
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 24, 2025
TUBA CITY, Navajo Nation -- Havasupai Dianna Uqualla said that she brought sad news, that the contamination from the Pinyon Plain uranium mine is already here, and has contaminated the air and the soil. Uqualla asked for the people to rely on their prayers and ancestral ways to guide them.Uqualla, traditional practitioner who served as the council's vice chairwoman, spoke at the Łeetso ÉÍ Dooda! (No To Uranium!!) Awareness Walk on Saturday, as Native people from the region gathered to shut down Pinyon Plain uranium mine, and stop the radioactive haul trucks from the Grand Canyon to the uranium mill in the White Mesa Ute community in Utah.
