This newsletter provides an update on the activities of the Délı̨nę Uranium Team, the group dedicated to researching and restoring the Port Radium region. The April 2004 issue shows the Délı̨nę Uranium Team learning about GID through the Land Use Mapping Project from instructor Ruth Ann Gal of the Aurora Research Institute. It mentions the name of a new Research Director, Sam de Beer.

The Land Use Mapping Project began training in 2003, and taught database design (with Microsoft Access/Excel and ArchView GIS). In Late 2003, the team created maps and interviewed people who lived and worked in Port Radium to understand how they used the land for hunting, trapping and ore transportation. Importantly, this issue contained an article reassuring readers that Délı̨nę food samples had been collected and sent for testing in the South, and that there were no higher levels of uranium or arsenic found in the local fish and meat. Simultaneously, a summary of oral histories presents findings that tailings and contaminants were spilled into the lake or river, that bags sometimes broke, and that ore carriers were often exposed to ore dust with no warning or precautions. Many of the Dene people who worked at Port Radium were loggers. The Délı̨nę Uranium Team held a photo show and film screening to convey their findings to the community.

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Délı̨ne Uranium Team. ÉÉÉ Enet’su Sóot’ıneke Sewáahwę, Délı̨ne Uranium Team Newsletter 3 1, no. 4 (April 2004).