And I'm going to Thank you. Seguizamu, good afternoon world. It's Justine and Cayenne back here again to introduce episode two of the Red Nation podcast tour, 2022.

For this episode, Caye and I travel out to Church Rock to the Red Water

Pond Road community to the 43rd Uranium Tailing Spill Legacy Commemoration.

This was on day three of our podcast tour

and our second stop, well technically third stop,

of our podcast tour, and we're happy to share with you the legacy of resistance to nuclear

colonialism here in New Mexico.

Yeah, thanks just seeing so just some real quick history into what had actually happened for the commemoration. So the commemoration was mostly folks reflecting on what they've done, how they've been affected, the struggles to continue

the resistance, nuclear production on the reservation.

So back in 1979 there was a pretty catastrophic

contamination spill and what had happened was in one of the mining sites where they were keeping the waste, 94 million gallons of

radioactive waste actually happened to break because there was a dam failure and that released what they called yellow cake which is pretty much

like a slurry a mixture of the mud and the waste so that was carried into some of the water systems in the area

and the shoot, the radioactive waste could be detected 50 miles downstream.

So this happened in Church Rock, New Mexico,

and in Gallup, New Mexico, and it was 50 miles down

called in Sanders, Arizona.

So that's what happened.

There was a spill that many people say

was worse than the Three Mile Island event

that happened on the East Coast.

So this again, highlighting how such a catastrophic event could happen.

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