As the highly anticipated film "Oppenheimer" was released in July 2023, some criticized how it overlooked the stories of communities in New Mexico who were impacted by the Manhattan Project. The New York Times does indeed include that line in its review of the film. The Voices of the Manhattan Project, an initiative by the Atomic Heritage Project, interviewed Rosario Martinez Fiorillo, a descendant of the evicted homesteaders. The Manhattan Project also took over swaths of Native American ancestral lands in Hanford, Washington, for plutonium production, resulting in widespread environmental damage. In summary, plenty of documentation and testimony show that Hispanic homesteaders were removed from their lands abruptly and compensated insufficiently by the government in the process.

Source: New York Times July 25, 2023 20:55 UTC