Navajo communities along the 174-mile stretch of the uranium haul route on Diné lands say the tribe and mining company are failing to share crucial safety info
The case has seemingly few clues and the family has little means to return man's remains to their Navajo homeland in New Mexico.
Uranium ore shipments will resume
Protestors gathered in the Navajo capital to raise awareness of what they said were threats to their freedoms.
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday,
Navajo Nation citizens have reportedly been targeted by US Immigration officials as part of Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda.
Curley was first elected speaker two years ago as a freshman council member. She was the first woman elected to the post.
The Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels Inc., the owner of the White Mesa Mill in Blanding, have reached an agreement for the future transport of uranium ore across the reservation into Utah.
The Navajo Nation has reached a settlement with a mining company that clears the way for transportation of uranium ore across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. The agreement announced Wednesday settles a dispute over trucking ore from a mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon to a mill site in Utah.
Colorado-based Energy Fuels will enhance some of its safety standards for shipping uranium from its mine near Grand Canyon National Park through the Navajo Nation, to its processing plant in southern Utah.
Navajo Nation officials say at least 15 tribal members in Arizona have been wrongfully detained and questioned during the immigration sweeps.
A federal grand jury has indicted a Navajo man, his father and a business partner on charges that they were running illegal marijuana growing operations in New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation to supply the black market.