Indigenous group heads to DC to fight for radiation compensation

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Demanding legislators hear their cry, a group of Indigenous people from the Southwest, with generations of illnesses from radiation exposure, are headed to DC.More than fifty members of the Navajo Nation, Laguna Pueblo, and Hopi Tribe set out to Washington DC on a roughly 30-hour bus ride.They're demanding legislators move on a bill that would compensate victims of radiation exposure, also known as "RECA."It's been a fourteen-year fight for Tina Cordova of the Tula