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Author Voyles, Traci Brynne, author.
Title Wastelanding : legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country / Traci Brynne Voyles.
Alternative Title Legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country
Publisher Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Copyright date ©2015



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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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ISBN 9781452944487 (electronic bk.)
1452944482 (electronic bk.)
9780816692644
0816692645
9780816692675
081669267X
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Author Voyles, Traci Brynne, author.
Subject 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.
Navajo Indian Reservation -- History -- 20th century.
Alternative Title Legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country
Descript 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
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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.
Note English.
ISBN 9781452944487 (electronic bk.)
1452944482 (electronic bk.)
9780816692644
0816692645
9780816692675
081669267X
Author Voyles, Traci Brynne, author.
Subject 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.
Navajo Indian Reservation -- History -- 20th century.
Alternative Title Legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country

Subject 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.
Navajo Indian Reservation -- History -- 20th century.
Descript 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file
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.
Note English.
ISBN 9781452944487 (electronic bk.)
1452944482 (electronic bk.)
9780816692644
0816692645
9780816692675
081669267X

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