Radioactivity on the Spokane Reservation – Comment 8 years later

Over the past 30 years, Harold Campbell, volunteer gravedigger, has helped prepared the final resting spots for hundreds of the tribe’s members. Death is a familiar presence to Campbell, who sits with grieving families and blesses burial plots with the fragrant smoke of sage and sweetgrass. Yet one aspect troubles him: Too many Spokane Indians die from cancer. “I watch them die, young and old,” Campbell said. “I think it’s caused by the radiation.”