D1. Jeannette and Bernard Bennally. Bernard Benally worked as a uranium miner for 6 years. Like many Navajo miners, he suffers from lung cancer, which developed after he retired. "I used to go in and haul the rocks out, and I guess that’s where I got hurt, because there was a lot of dust after they did the blasting and we went in right away." Navajo uranium miners were the first mining population to register high excess rates of lung cancer due to alpha radiation; other mining populations in Canada, Czechoslovakia, South Africa, and Sweden experienced similar consequences. Red Rock Navajo Reservation, Arizona. 18 August 1982.
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