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#NavajoNation Dishonors Legacy of #KleeBenally: Agrees to #Uranium Transport Through #Navajo Communities

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, February 3, 2025

"The Navajo Nation dishonored the memory and legacy of Klee Benally by agreeing to allow radioactive uranium trucks to travel through the Navajo Nation. It was what Klee spent the last years of his life fighting against.

"The deadly trucks from the #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain uranium mine in the #GrandCanyon will pass through the #Havasupai's homeland, and then past the homes of #Paiute, #Dine' and #Hopi in Arizona before reaching the dumping ground: The Energy Fuels #UraniumMill in the #WhiteMesaUte Community in Southern #Utah.

"Klee is being honored with a #NuclearFreeFutures Award in New York in March.

"Nuclear Free Futures said, in announcing the award, 'Klee Benally was a Navajo activist and musician and member of the Navajo #Tódichiinii Clan and the #Nakai #Diné Clan. In addition to a
musical career with his siblings in the band #Blackfire,

"'Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, '#NoSpiritualSurrender: #IndigenousAnarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'

"The award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.

"Klee, co-founder of #HaulNo!, warned of the danger to the water and rivers from the uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and the planned deadly transport of radioactive ore, before he passed in
December 2023: 'There is possible radioactive contamination to land, water, and air from the #CanyonMine, White
Mesa Mill, and transport of uranium would impact northern Arizona, southeast Utah, the #ColoradoRiver, #MoenkopiWash, the #SanJuanRiver, and the lands and cultural resources of the #Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Ute, and Paiute peoples.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/navajo-nation-dishonors-legacy-of-klee.html
#WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
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#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

Navajo Nation Dishonors Legacy of Klee Benally: Agrees to Uranium Transport Through Navajo Nation

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Feb 10, 2025 at 11:11pmWeb
Show threadLeather Cub Andrew AûFeb 10, 2025
@DoomsdaysCW why does this seem to sound so much like union leaders betraying their members?
Show threadDoomsdaysCWFeb 10, 2025
@LeatherCubAndrew I saw a story about how Navajo president #BuuNygren was sucking up to Herr Trump during the inauguration. Now I know why...
Show threadLeather Cub Andrew AûFeb 10, 2025
@DoomsdaysCW I still don't know what Buu Nygren is getting out of this... just see one side of the agreement
Show threadDoomsdaysCWFeb 10, 2025
@LeatherCubAndrew Hmmmm... I will have to look 👁️ into that (and I'll check in with my buddy, Brenda Norrell).
Show threadDoomsdaysCWFeb 10, 2025
@LeatherCubAndrew I expect #BuuNygren to be accepting some sort of cabinet appointment in the near-future. Like #DebHaaland under Biden. Haaland betrayed Native Americans as well.
Show threadLeather Cub Andrew AûFeb 10, 2025
@DoomsdaysCW so they want to be a token in a white supremacist government?
Show threadDoomsdaysCWFeb 10, 2025

@LeatherCubAndrew So, right off the bat, I found this... Maybe Nygren has found an investor in Trump?

From October, 2024: "#NavajoNation President #BuuNygren signed a business site lease agreement that now enables the Navajo-owned Horseshoe Bend Holdings, LLC, to seek investors to build a world-class resort on more than 421 acres overlooking Horseshoe Bend, Glen Canyon and the Colorado River 9.5 miles downstream of Lake Powell."
https://opvp.navajo-nsn.gov/navajo-president-buu-nygren-approves-lease-for-700-million-horseshoe-bend-development-called-model-for-navajo-tourism/

Navajo President Buu Nygren approves lease for $700 million Horseshoe Bend Development, called model for Navajo tourism

Visit the post for more.

Navajo Nation Office of the President
Show threadDoomsdaysCWFeb 10, 2025
@LeatherCubAndrew There has been a big divide between those who resist corporatism and colonization, and those who embrace it. Klee writes about that in his book, "No Spiritual Surrender."
Show threadLeather Cub Andrew AûFeb 10, 2025
@DoomsdaysCW oh good grief, I think I'm going to be sick!!
Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaApr 26, 2025
@DoomsdaysCW @LeatherCubAndrew Why do they both have Scandinavian-sounding names?