'Demon Mineral' Featured in International Uranium Film Festival 2025

[douglas9]

The Clandestine Operation by the United States Government Meant Death for Dine' in the Uranium Mines

"They didn't tell us the rock was dangerous. They said they would use it to make weapons, to use against the Asians. But it came back on us."

This is the voice of a Dine' grandmother, speaking in Dine'.

In this Dine' family, there were eight horrible deaths. At the hospital, when the youngest one passed away, the doctors asked the family, "By any chance did you live near a mine?"

The family shares their story in the new film, 'Demon Mineral,' selected for the International Uranium Film Festival 2024.

The secrecy and clandestine operation of the United States government sent Dine' miners to their deaths in the uranium mines on the Navajo Nation. The United States government knew the radiation would kill Navajos, but did not tell them, and sent them into the uranium mines without protective clothing.

Dine' families breathed the dust, and washed the clothes covered with the radioactive dust brought home on the clothes of Dine' miners. Dine' ate the food that they grew in the fields covered with the radioactive dust, as did their livestock.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/demon-mineral-featured-in-international.html

[Clouds Passing]

1. Thank you for posting, douglas9. Will watch.

[underpants]

2. I had no idea. How is Dine' pronounced?

While "Navajo" is the commonly used name, the Navajo people refer to themselves as "Diné," which means "the people" in their language.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
Diné:
This is the name the Navajo people use for themselves, derived from their Athabascan language, and translates to "the people".
Navajo:
This term is an exonym, meaning it was given to the people by outsiders (specifically, the Spanish) and comes from a Tewa word meaning "place of large planted fields".
Context:
While "Navajo" is widely used and understood, using "Diné" is a more respectful and accurate way to refer to the people and their nation.

[niyad]

3. Thank you for posting this. Coincidentally, I was thinking about uranium

mining on tribal lands just the other day, remembering "Thunderheart", with Val Kilmer's death.

The horrors that have been deliberately inflicted in the Indigenous Peoples in this hemishere are aparently endless, and ongoing. (TRAITOR** just in the last few weeks erasing the Navajo code talkers being one of the most recent examples aling with erasung the MMIW reports).

[GiqueCee]

4. The same diseased mindset...

... that gave Native Americans small pox infected blankets 150 years ago is still at work. Those responsible should be forced to work the same mines with the same protections – which is NONE at all.