Wastelanding : legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country /

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Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Voyles, Traci Brynne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Subjects:
1900-1999
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.
Indians of North America.
Medicine > History > 20th century.
Radioactive Waste > adverse effects
Uranium > adverse effects
Mining > legislation & jurisprudence
Miners
Minority Health
Indians, North American
History, 20th Century
Navajo > Relations avec l'État > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Navajo > Santé et hygiène > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Uranium > Mines et extraction > Aspect politique > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Uranium > Mines et extraction > Aspect social > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Medicine
Navajo Indians > Government relations.
Navajo Indians > Health and hygiene.
Radiation > Health aspects.
Uranium mines and mining > Political aspects.
Uranium mines and mining > Social aspects.
Navajo Indian Reservation > History > 20th century.
Southwestern United States
Navajo Indian Reservation > Histoire > 20e siècle.
New Southwest.
United States > Navajo Indian Reservation.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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