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Wastelanding : legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Voyles, Traci Brynne (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Subjects:
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.
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Table of 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.