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Wastelanding : legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country
- Title
- Wastelanding : legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country / Traci Brynne Voyles.
- Author
- Voyles, Traci Brynne, 1981-
- Publication
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 291 pages; 22 cm
- Alternative Title
- Legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country
- Subjects
- Navajo Indians > Government relations > History > 20th century
- Navajo Indian Reservation > History > 20th century
- Uranium mines and mining > Political aspects > Southwest, New > History > 20th century
- Navajo Indians > Health and hygiene > History > 20th century
- Uranium mines and mining > Social aspects > Southwest, New > History > 20th century
- Radiation > Health aspects > Southwest, New > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-2817
- ISBN
- 9780816692644
- 0816692645
- 9780816692675
- 081669267X
- LCCN
- 2014028049
- OCLC
- 894746316
- Author
- Voyles, Traci Brynne, 1981- author.
- Title
- Wastelanding : legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country / Traci Brynne Voyles.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-2817