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Dirty Smoke Signals

Navajo Nation weighs costs and benefits of coal mining on its land

By Kari Lydersen

As a child, bonnie Wethington remembers hunting for “star-crossed fairy rocks” and catching lizards in thigh-high grass below the majestic Ship Rock and Church Rock on the Navajo Nation, near Four Corners (where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet). Now in her 40s, Wethington, a member of the Nation, laments that the grass is sparse and scrubby, and there… return to article

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    Our red brothers ans sisters get screwed again!

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    Set up the solar energy panels!

    Cut the carbon dioxide 99%.

    The power lines will follow.

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