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A 6 page review of the problems these people are experiencing with toxic waste resulting from the dumping of radioactive material and the environmental destruction that has occurred as a result of extensive coal mining. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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is damaged through development activities then traditional lifeways are damaged as well. This has certainly been the case with the ongoing problems on Navajo and Hopi land in Arizona
where not only has coal mining taken a horrendous toll but radioactive contamination is showing up in the water supply. The severity of these problems tends to be greatly
understated if one turns to the regulatory government agencies in charge of addressing them. Less traditional sources, however, emphasize that these problems are monumental. In a 1999 online
edition of "Revolutionary Worker", for example, the contention is presented that while the Navajo and Hopi live in relative poverty, many without even the basic amenities of running water and
electricity, their lands are being destroyed by coal fired plants distribute their product of electricity not to those whose lives they have so disastrously impacted but rather to the rest
of the nation. Revolutionary Worker (1999) these plants are not only typically exempted from environmental laws and allowed to release tons of pollutants, those releases have:
"resulted in a 50 percent reduction in visibility at the Grand Canyon in the last 15 years. Livestock
have been poisoned and people suffer from respiratory illnesses and kidney disease caused by the coal dust"
Adding spiritual insult to physical injury, coal mining activities have also violated ancient Anasazi and Navajo burial grounds and other sacred sites. They have destroyed not just
homes by features of the environment such as natural herbs on which much of the religion and medicine of these people is based. In addition to the impacts of
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