High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Abandoned Uranium Mine Superfund Site on the Navajo Nation is the culmination of years of struggles of the Navajo people for environmental remediation due to uranium mining. The Navajo people had strictly refused to let any industry mine their land until the beginning of World War II. In the 1930s, the appointed federal Guardian to the Navajo nation attempted to take away the rights of the Navajo to decide what mining should take place on their land. However the tribal council and Navajo delegates remained in control of mining decisions until 1940. At the outbreak of World War II and the rise of Nazi Germany, the tribal council pledged the Navajo Nation’s loyalty and support of the United States in whatever aid was necessary. This resulted in the reversal of their anti-mining policy and the acceptance of Union Mines and the Vanadium Corporation of America to begin mining on Navajo land. While seeking vanadium to supply the military with reinforcements for soldier’s armor, the mining companies found uranium which was then ferociously mined from the 40’s throughout the 80’s to accompany the creation of the atomic bomb and fuel the Cold War. The local Navajo people were employed to mine this uranium without a single warning of the potential health effects. The story of the Navajo struggle to receive acknowledgment and compensation for the injustices of the uranium mining industry are well documented in such books as Doug Brugge’s The Navajo People and Uranium Mining and Judy Pasternak’s Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed.