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The Navajo people and uranium mining
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- Creator
- edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis ; foreword by Stewart L. Udall
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2007]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xix, 210 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0826337791, 9780826337795
- OCLC
- ocn170922332
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-197) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Navajo Indians -- Interviews.
- Navajo Indians -- Diseases.
- Navajo Indians -- Health and hygiene.
- Uranium mines and mining -- Health aspects -- Southwestern States.
- Uranium miners -- Diseases -- Southwestern States.
- Indians, North American -- Southwestern United States.
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- Uranium -- poisoning -- Southwestern United States.
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- Mining -- manpower -- Southwestern United States.
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- Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced -- etiology -- Southwestern United States.
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- Occupational Exposure -- adverse effects -- Southwestern United States.
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- Respiratory Tract Diseases -- etiology -- Southwestern United States.
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