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Wastelanding : legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country / Traci Brynne Voyles

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Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
Murray Library-4th Floor	E99 .N3V69 2015	DUE 05-02-24 BILLED

Description	xv, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Subject	Navajo Indians -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century
	Navajo Indians -- Health and hygiene -- History -- 20th century
	Uranium mines and mining -- Political aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
	Uranium mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
	Radiation -- Health aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
	Navajo Indian Reservation -- History -- 20th century
	Navajo Indians -- Government relations.
	Navajo Indians -- Health and hygiene.
	Radiation -- Health aspects.
	Uranium mines and mining -- Political aspects.
	Uranium mines and mining -- Social aspects.
	Southwest, New.
	United States -- Navajo Indian Reservation.
	1900 - 1999
	History.
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents	Preface: In search of treasure -- Introduction: Sacrificial land -- Empty except for Indians : early impressions of Navajo rangeland -- Prospecting for magic ore in America's new frontier -- Cowboys and Indians in Navajo country -- Hot spots: justice, power, and gender in the radioactive present -- Monsters and mountains: competing geographies of uranium -- The big hurt: boom and bust on contested ground -- Conclusion. Zombie mines: the future of uranium and Native sovereignty
Other Title	Legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country
ISBN	9780816692644
	0816692645
	9780816692675
	081669267X