Native Bidaské: Downwind from Trinity, Radioactive Legacy
Eighty years ago, the U.S. government detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb, the Trinity Test, in the New Mexico desert. The fallout didn’t just alter world history. It devastated the lives of nearby families and tribal communities, many of whom were never warned and have never been compensated.
On the next Native Bidaské, we talk with two women fighting for justice in the aftermath of that blast:
🔸 Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium
🔸 Loretta Anderson, co-founder of the Southwest Uranium Miners Coalition and member of the Pueblo of Laguna
Their stories are personal. Their work is urgent. And the legacy of radioactive exposure in Indian Country still endures today.
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@PatrisiaAcosta-z6r
October 13, 2025 at 10:34 pm
My mom was a downwinder she passed from leukemia last January she suffered so much and didn't deserve any of it she was such a good person to every one even the people that did her so wrong or hurt her 💔it dont know how to go about filling on her behalf 💔
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