The hearing was held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and allowed “Native communities who have lived for generations with the waste from historic uranium mining and milling to hold U.S. government officials to account in a public forum,” according to a press release. The Indigenous community members who testified were Edith Hood and Teracita Keyanna (Navajo Nation) with Red Water Pond Road Community Association, Anferny Badback and Yolanda Badback (Ute Nation) with White Mesa Concerned Community, Tonia Stands (Oglala Lakota Nation) with Magpie Buffalo Organizing, Carletta Tilousi (Havasupai Tribe) with Havasupai Tribe Anti-Uranium Subcommittee, and Big Wind Carpenter (Northern Arapaho Tribe).