High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Abandoned Uranium Mine Superfund Site on the Navajo Nation is the culmination of years of struggles of the Navajo people for environmental remediation due to uranium mining. The Navajo people had strictly refused to let any industry mine their land until the beginning of World War II. In the 1930s, the appointed federal Guardian to the Navajo nation attempted to take away the rights of the Navajo to decide what mining should take place on their land. However the tribal council and Navajo delegates remained in control of mining decisions until 1940. At the outbreak of World War II and the rise of Nazi Germany, the tribal council pledged the Navajo Nation’s loyalty and support of the United States in whatever aid was necessary. This resulted in the reversal of their anti-mining policy and the acceptance of Union Mines and the Vanadium Corporation of America to begin mining on Navajo land. While seeking vanadium to supply the military with...

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