[news] Dene made 'radioactive' to help nuke Japan in WWII

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"[S]ix members of the Deline Dene, all living with the pain and suffering of family and friends dying of radiation poisoning, are going to Hiroshima to join in the services commemorating the dropping of the atomic bomb on that city on August 6, 1945." ... "During the beginning of the war efforts, the mine was kept running at a very high pace, utilizing non-Native miners brought in from all over the country. The Dene were employed as 'coolies' packing 45-kilogram sacks of radioactive ore for three dollars a day, working 12 hours a day, six days a week for four months of the year."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/6/13850/60348