Native American lands in the United States have been disproportionately used for uranium mining operations, nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear dumping, leaving many Native lands dangerously radioactive.
Bolivia will host the Women and Mining Conference, an international meeting that seeks to address the negative effects of mining on communities, in 2000.
The Xavantes have had a long history of isolation and have preserved a unique identity and way of life regardless of their recent and continually intensifying contact with the globalizing world.