“I’m a Radioactive Eskimo”: Nuclear Colonialism on Alaska’s North Slope is a story map researched and written by Jessica Lambert. Lambert is part of Nuclear Princeton, a research group that investigates Princeton’s role in nuclear development and its impacts on Indigenous people. The story map shares the history not only of Project Chariot, but other assaults on Alaskan Native land and culture, and the successful Indigenous grassroots movement to oppose these nuclear activities.
Project Chariot: Jessica Lambert
“Project Chariot represents an egregious assault on Alaska Native lands, sovereignty, and health. The Iñupiat Village of Point Hope was able to successfully stop the detonation of five nuclear weapons, which would have completely destroyed the local ecosystem, through a powerful Indigenous social movement that brought together Natives from across the state of Alaska for the first time and set the stage for their successful representation and voice in the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.”
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