Grand Canyon is our home. Uranium mining has no place here | Carletta Tilousi

The Havasupai resided in and around Grand Canyon for many centuries. This region is sacred - that is why we oppose the pollution of our land and water

The Havasupai - "people of the blue-green waters" - live in Supai Village, located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Today our lives and water are being threatened by international uranium mining companies because the US government and its 1872 mining law permit uranium mining on federal lands that surround the Grand Canyon.

In 1986, the Kaibab national forest authorized a Canadian-based uranium company to open Canyon mine, a uranium mine near the south rim of Grand Canyon national park. The Havasupai tribe challenged the decision but lost in the ninth circuit court of appeals. Miners were just starting to drill Canyon mine's shaft in 1991 when falling uranium prices caused the company to shut it down for more than two decades.