Canaries in the Uranium Mine

Navajos gear up for renewed legal battle to protect their life and land

By Kari Lydersen

Teddy Nez, a Navajo rancher and Vietnam War veteran, lives practically in the shadow of a 40-foot-high pile of radioactive waste abutting his small home outside of Gallup, N.M. Nez has colon cancer, which he treats with herbs -- but not with ones growing [RETURN TO ARTICLE]