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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voyles, Traci Brynne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navajo Indians--Government relations--History--20th century--Southwest, New.

Navajo Indians.

Navajo Indians--Health and hygiene--History--20th century--Southwest, New.

Uranium mines and mining--History--Political aspects--20th century--Southwest, New.

Uranium mines and mining.

Uranium mines and mining--Social aspects--History--20th Century.

Radiation--History--Health aspects--20th century.

Radiation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

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.S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top-secret Manhattan Project. Today, the Navajo Nation is home to more than a thousand abandoned uranium sites.

Contents:

Preface: In Search of Treasure; Introduction: Sacrificial Land; 1 Empty Except for Indians: Early Impressions of Navajo Rangeland; 2 Prospecting for Magic Ore in America's New Frontier; 3 Cowboys and Indians in Navajo Country; 4 Hot Spots: Justice, Power, and Gender in the Radioactive Present; 5 Monsters and Mountains: Competing Geographies of Uranium; 6 The Big Hurt: Boom and Bust on Contested Ground; Conclusion: Zombie Mines; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4448-2