The Navajo people and uranium mining /

Other Authors: Brugge, Doug, Benally, Timothy., Yazzie-Lewis, Esther,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2006.
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245 4 |a The Navajo people and uranium mining /  |c edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally and Esther Yazzie-Lewis ; foreword by Stewart L. Udall. 
260 4 |a Albuquerque :  |b University of New Mexico Press,  |c c2006. 
300 4 |a xix, 210 p. :  |b ill., map ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 4 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 4 |a 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 Dine against uranium mining / interview with Rita and Mitchell Capitan from the film Homeland, Four portraits of native action ; update by Chris Shuey. 
650 4 |a Navajo Indians 
650 4 |a Navajo Indians  |x Diseases. 
650 4 |a Navajo Indians  |x Health and hygiene. 
650 4 |a Uranium mines and mining  |x Health aspects  |z Southwestern States. 
650 4 |a Uranium miners  |x Diseases  |z Southwestern States. 
700 1 4 |a Brugge, Doug 
700 1 4 |a Benally, Timothy. 
700 1 4 |a Yazzie-Lewis, Esther, 
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