Reframing - Indigenous - Remediation

This innovative plan is based on a photographic survey of Abandoned Uranium Mines (AUMs) located on the Navajo Nation.  The AUMs are physical manifestations of a complex and traumatic history that (pits customary, ethics-based notions of how we should live with the land against economic development and Navajo National sovereignty) has poisoned the land and endangered a people.  Our investigation will focus on the toxic legacy of uranium extraction and processing on Dinétah, that continues to threaten the health of our people and land.  Bearing witness to these sites, and the front-line communities affected by them, will serve as a catalyst to design innovative solutions that refocus our understanding of what remediation can be.  We intend to develop new strategies of remediation that center Diné ways of knowing as we weave together the interdisciplinary expertise required to address this most pressing concern.