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We tend to think of the United States as the home of all things bright, shiny and new, not a land of ancient cultures and archaeological sites that fascinate history buffs and experts alike.
That’s what happens when one operates on assumptions and misinformation, instead of truths and cold, hard facts – we end up with metaphorical egg on our faces.
In fact, there are several places in America that rival some of the most important archaeological sites in Greece and Rome. Sites that are truly ancient.
Sites that date back thousands of years. Sites that continue to offer insights and valuable information to the folks who study America’s geographic development, as well as the country’s Native populations who lived there long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic from Europe.
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In December 2020, Indigenous advocates and allies from around the world joined a virtual town hall on the last operating conventional uranium mill in the United States. The White Mesa uranium mill sits on the doorstep of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, just a few miles up the road from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s White Mesa community, and has been flying under the radar as a de facto dumping ground for low-level radioactive waste for decades.
The town hall, called “Indigenous People and Environmental Justice at White Mesa: Confronting the Last Uranium Mill in the U.S.,” gave attendees a chance to learn about the White Mesa Ute community’s and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe s struggle against uranium pollution, as well as more about the nuclear fuel cycle’s impacts to Indigenous communities.