ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 10月30日 09時06分

Photo by @renan_ozturk // words by @taylorfreesolo - Tony leaned back from the driver's seat and said to me in a slow paced and rhythmic 'matter of fact'ness... "They had no idea at the time. The government, they didn't even want the land. Nothing grows here. So in 1868, after twenty years of forcing thousands of our people to walk hundreds of miles to New Mexico, we became the first native nation to return to our home land with the treaty. But then the discoveries came... oil, gas, uranium. My father worked in the uranium mine. It wasn't just the men who got the cancer. It was their whole families. Because they would come home covered in that dust, go to their beds covered in that dust." Today, the 500 closed and abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation are in various stages of cleanup through EPA Superfund Program. Monument Valley, pictured here, is a highly visited tourist destination given the incredible beauty of this Martian landscape. But not many who visit, according to Tony, realize the deeper history here. Thank you for being so generous with your time to share it with us. #navajonation #monumentvalley

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