U.S (NATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE ACTION FUND): SAVE the GRAND CANYON OF COLORADO !!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friend, 

 

The threat looming over the future of the Grand Canyon is not new.

Multinational mining conglomerates have long sought to extract nearby stores of uranium regardless of harm to the canyon and the people who live in the region. Since the 1950s, the Grand Canyon area and surrounding Colorado Plateau have been home to at least 22 uranium mills and the majority of all uranium mining activities conducted in the United States.

These mines have left a toxic legacy on the land and local tribal communities. Nearly one in five uranium mines is located within 6 miles of a Native American reservation, and more than three quarters of them are situated within 50 miles of a reservation.

On the Navajo Nation alone, estimates suggest that there have been more than 1,000 uranium mines since modern extraction methods began. More than 500 of these mines have been abandoned and remain in need of cleanup.

This is the real legacy of uranium mining in the Southwest : Today, women and newborn babies exhibit higher levels of uranium in their bodies than people in other parts of the country. More than a quarter of Navajo Nation residents participating in one study recently tested positive for high levels of uranium.^[1]

Enough is enough is enough. President Biden can use his authority under the Antiquities Act to save the Grand Canyon from uranium mining once and for all.

Send a direct message to the president calling for the establishment of the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument to protect the cultural, archaeological, and sacred sites of ancestral importance to Indigenous peoples and tribes now.

CONTACT THE PRESIDENT

Despite a 20-year uranium mining moratorium established in 2012, as recently as 2020 Donald Trump’s administration proposed spending $1.5 billion to prop up the country’s nuclear fuel industry, emboldening Canada-based Energy Fuels Inc. to take steps toward boosting operations at dormant uranium mines outside Grand Canyon National Park.

Now as MAGA Republicans are seeking to establish increased supplies of domestic stockpiles of rare earth minerals once again, we have to step up to protect Mother Earth, our rights, and our people.

Don’t sit this fight out. Take action. Take just a moment to sign and send your message to President Biden now.

We can save the Grand Canyon and protect the Colorado River -- including the clean water it provides to 40 million people and 1.8 million acres of land used to grow crops and raise livestock in seven states -- but only if we demand action now.

Hawwih (“thank you” in Caddo) for joining the fight today.

 

Judith Le Blanc (Caddo)
Executive Director

DONATE TODAY

^{[1] US official: Research finds uranium in Navajo women, babies}