Friday 7/20 8a: On University Showcase, the ¶Ù¾±²Ôé Red Water Pond Road Community on the Navajo Nation has grappled for years with the contamination from tailings left from uranium mines. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to relocate the community, but members do not want to leave their land and see a solution in moving to the top of a nearby mesa. They're working with the and as well as the to create an that will get them away from the pollution and keep them close to their ancestral homeland.
On this show we talk to a community member, faculty and students about the project. And speaks with Ph.D candidate about the long history in the United States of marginalizing people by race.
Guests:
- , Interdisciplinary Assistant Professor, College of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture and Planning
- Terecita Keyanna, Liaison with the
- , Indigenous Design + Planning Institute
- , graduate student in landscape architecture
