04: Wastelanding (Part 02)

This week, we continue our investigation into uranium extraction on Indigenous landscapes across North America, and consider diverse community and artistic strategies for documenting and confronting the ongoing legacies of nuclear colonialism. It is time to name these monsters.  In Episode 04: Wastelanding (Part 02), you'll hear from interdisciplinary artists Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, and European); Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, and Greek); Mallery Quetawki (Zuni Pueblo); Shayla Blatchford (Navajo); and Bonnie Devine (Serpent River First Nation of Northern Ontario, Anishinaabe/Ojibwa). You'll also meet physician and photographer Chip Thomas, who worked on the Navajo Nation for 36 years. And environmental historian Traci Brynne Voyles (Wastelanding, 2015) returns to discuss the obfuscation of mining in the nuclear weapons and fuel chain, the cultural naturalization of the American Southwest as pollutable, and the empowering capacity of counter-mapping.  Learn more, make a donation, or find a text-based version of today's program at: timezeropod.com. To support resistance efforts to uranium mining at the Grand Canyon, check out the Indigenous-led activist group Haul No!  And for a wealth of historical documentation of uranium extraction across the Navajo Nation, dive into Shayla Blatchford's Anti-Uranium Mapping Project, which recently won a major award from Creative Capital.