Route 66 is known for its history, it’s a cultural touchstone that represents the expansion to the West, the Mother Road, vintage cars and diners and Americana trinket shops.
But, Katrina Parks, director of a new short film, documents another more troubling history of Route 66: its atomic history.
Katrina Parks
In it, Parks profiles some of the women from the Red Water Pond community on the Navajo Nation 15 miles north of Route 66, including Edith Hood. Community organizers there have been working to get uranium tailings removed from their land for decades. But theirs is just one of the stories Parks unearthed as a part of the project, "The Atomic Legacy on Route 66."
