The NAME_1 were not aware of the true goal of the mining, which was to supply uranium for the government’s secret Manhattan Project and usher in the atomic age, nor were they warned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs that the drilling, hammering and blasting would loosen radioactive materials. By the time the NAME_1 (and subsequently the Laguna Pueblo, where uranium mining began in 1951) realized the environmental and health cost, it was too late. As NAME_2 laments, “‘yellow dirt’ had crept into every aspect of their daily lives: Give two different versions of responses. Please separate the responses with 6 asterisk symbols: ******.
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