Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination

Excellent piece in The Guardian this past Sunday, providing an update on the past decade of #industrialcleanup and #soilremediation in NE Oklahoma, under the strwardship of the Quapaw Nation

#envhist
#PeoplesHistory
#InCorporationsWeTrust
#stripmining
#publichealth
#waterpolitics
#BloodLeadLevels

#Keytoxinproducingfactories recycle waste/scrap metal sent by US auto manufacturers-- car batteries & hazardous waste, releasing a total of 4,362lbs/1979kg of toxic lead into the air/year 2021 - 2023 – more than all the companies in many US states. #Bloodleadlevels are high in residents.

#nswpol #mining #children #bloodleadlevels #auspol