An award-winning documentary, "The Return of Navajo Boy," a Navajo family history involving houses complete out of uranium and a long lost boy, be a featured presentation Tuesday on the Tribal Lands and Environment Forum in Green Bay.
Made in 2000, the film and public engagement campaign are credited through triggering a federal investigation into uranium poisoning, pressuring changes in federal legislation, and following a decade of persistence, inspiring the U.S. EPA to clean up uranium contamination on the home of Navajo grandmother and activist Elsie Begay.
"While everyone is talking concerning Japan's radiation crisis, the Navajo Nation is struggling to secure a federal cleanup of Cold War uranium contamination," said filmmaker Jeff Spitz, "Navajos are dying of cancer at tall rates, and we're working through new media tools to fight for environmental justice."
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