'Demon Mineral' Featured in International Uranium Film Festival 2025 [View all]
The Clandestine Operation by the United States Government Meant Death for Dine' in the Uranium Mines
"They didn't tell us the rock was dangerous. They said they would use it to make weapons, to use against the Asians. But it came back on us."
This is the voice of a Dine' grandmother, speaking in Dine'.
In this Dine' family, there were eight horrible deaths. At the hospital, when the youngest one passed away, the doctors asked the family, "By any chance did you live near a mine?"
The family shares their story in the new film, 'Demon Mineral,' selected for the International Uranium Film Festival 2024.
The secrecy and clandestine operation of the United States government sent Dine' miners to their deaths in the uranium mines on the Navajo Nation. The United States government knew the radiation would kill Navajos, but did not tell them, and sent them into the uranium mines without protective clothing.
Dine' families breathed the dust, and washed the clothes covered with the radioactive dust brought home on the clothes of Dine' miners. Dine' ate the food that they grew in the fields covered with the radioactive dust, as did their livestock.
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