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"While government-directed Indian termination policies were enforced during the Eisenhower administration, hastily executed uranium mining contracts to permit it (even sanctioning it as "economic progress") preceded the imposition of unprecedented-scale government-sanctioned commercial uranium extraction operations from various parts of traditional Indian western North American tribal lands (not so named under the ancient land-use and resource-sharing ways of Indigenous former inhabitants) and the uranium mining was permitted. However, the uranium mining contracts were signed without tribal permissions, and Navajo workers were not informed of the health risks involved with working in uranium mines.[citation needed]"

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Proceeding the Indian Termination Policies directed by the Eisenhower administration, uranium mining operations were established across Navajo tribal lands, offering the only available employment to the Navajo people. Although Navajo workers were initially enthusiastic about employment, it is evident that the U.S. government had been aware of the harmful risks associated with uranium mining since the 1930s and neglected to inform the Navajo communities. In addition, the majority of Navajo workers did not speak english, and therefore had no understanding of radiation, nor a translation for the word in their language.[5] The open and now abandoned uranium mines continue to poison and pollute the Navajo Communities today, and clean-up is in slow progress.[6] The Navajo people feel that this was in violation of the Treaty of 1868 in which the Bureau of Indian Affairs was assigned to care for Navajo economic, educational, and health services.[7]

* citations added. rewrote conspiracy type info to be more factual. made facts clearer, more understandable.