Manuel Pino

Manuel Pino is a professor at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona, who comes from a village of the Tewa people west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Opposition to uranium mining has played a central role in Pino's life. The theme for his sociology dissertation was The Destructive Impact of Uranium Mining on Native American Culture. He has spoken at many international conferences, including the 1992 World Uranium Hearing in Salzburg, Austria, about victims of uranium mining, depleted uranium, and associated cancer deaths. In 2008, Manuel Pino received the Nuclear-Free Future Award.^[1][2][3]

See also

• List of Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients
• Uranium in the environment
• Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
• The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
• Thomas Banyacya

References

External links

• Uranium Mining and Indigenous People
• Indigenous Leaders Call For End To Uranium Mining