Research Question: Is mining uranium for nuclear power in the Grand Canyon a responsible response to climate change given the history local mining and its effects?Introduction:- My Story: Our family farm in Shiprock, New Mexico is not too big, but you can feel the age of the house and the land. I remember playing with my cousin on the "farm" when I was younger. We ran back and forth between the house and the apricot tree behind the trailer, carrying supplies to our fort. We went through the old shed to find plates and pots to play "cooking" with. We looked for more scrap wood and shovels so we could build the next section of the house. We had to sneak into the shed, knowing we weren't supposed to be there, knowing we would soon hear our mother's high-pitched sound and the voices of other mothers telling us "get back here!" (look for punctuation here) But we did it anyway, not understanding the dangers. In the 1930s (review and actually cite when, who and where this happened), someone somewhere discovered that when you explode one uranium particle with another, nuclear fission occurs! Which then produces heat, which can then be transformed into energy! At this point I will go into more depth about how exactly uranium and nuclear energy work, and talk about how radiation is bad, bad, and connect my story to the stories of children playing with radioactive shovels that my grandfather used and my great grandfather. to take home after working in the mines, and talk about how that affected my cousin, and try to cite some reports about how radiation is linked to cancer and birth defects. In The News: March 14, 2011, three uranium mines received approval to open in Grand Ca...... middle of document......20Clips/05-11-2011.Federal%20Plan %20Non%20Fine%20Uranium%20Mining%20Near%20Grand%20Canyon %20(Tucson%20Sentinel).pdf (accessed June 16, 2011).Brugge, Doug, Timothy Benally, and Esther Lewis. The Navajo people and uranium mining. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Markstrom, Carol A., and Perry H. Charley. “Psychological Effects of Technological/Man-Made Environmental Disasters: Examining the Navajo and Uranium.” American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research 11, no. 1 (2003): 19-45. HYPERTEXT LINK "http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ775485&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ775485" http://ww w.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/ detailmini .jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ775485&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ775485 (accessed June 15, 2011).