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The Navajo people and uranium mining / edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis ; foreword by Stewart L. Udall.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2006.
Description
xix, 210 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
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E99.N3 N38 2006
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Subject(s)
Navajo Indians
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Interviews
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Navajo Indians
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Diseases
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Navajo Indians
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Health and hygiene
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Uranium mines and mining
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Health aspects
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Southwestern States
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Uranium miners
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Diseases
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Southwestern States
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Indigenous peoples of North America
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Mineral industries
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Indigenous Studies
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Brugge, Doug
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Benally, Timothy
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Yazzie-Lewis, Esther, 1950-
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Summary note
A collection of papers sponsored by the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project tell of the deadly health effects of uranium mining on Navajo Indians who worked in the mines but were never informed of the dangers.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: "So a lot of the Navajo ladies became widows" / Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis
Leetso, the powerful yellow monster : a Navajo cultural interpretation of uranium mining / Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Jim Zion
"I have revisited the places where I used to work" : oral history of former miner George Tutt / interview by Timothy Benally ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally
A documentary history of uranium mining and the Navajo people / Doug Brugge and Rob Goble
"Human beings are priceless" : interview with Leroy and Lorraine Jack / interview by Phil Harrison ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally
Advocacy and social action among Navajo people : uranium workers and their families, 1988-1995 / Susan E. Dawson, Perry H. Charley, and Phillip Harrison Jr.
"Our children are affected by it" : oral history of former miner George Lapahie / interview by Timothy Benally ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally
Psychological effects of technological/human-caused environmental disasters : examination of the Navajo people and uranium / Carol A. Markstrom and Perry H. Charley
"It was like slave work" : oral history of miner Tommy James / interview by Phil Harrison ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally
"Everything has been ruined for us" : oral history of miner Joe Ray Harvey / interview by Phil Harrison ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act : what is fair? / Doug Brugge and Rob Goble
"We will never forget it" : oral history of widows Mary Louise Johnson and Minnie Tsosie / interview by Timothy Benally ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally
Eastern Navajo Diné against uranium mining / interview with Rita and Mitchell Capitan from the film Homeland, Four portraits of native action ; update by Chris Shuey.
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ISBN
9780826337788 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0826337783 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0826337791
9780826337795
LCCN
2006026325
OCLC
71126689
International Article Number
9780826337788
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