The Navajo people and uranium mining
By: edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis ; foreword by Stewart L. Udall.
Contributors: Brugge, Doug.; Benally, Timothy.; Yazzie-Lewis, Esther, 1950-
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780826337795
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
Genres: Interviews.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "So a lot of the Navajo ladies became widows" / Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis; title: Leetso, the powerful yellow monster : a Navajo cultural interpretation of uranium mining / Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Jim Zion; title: "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; title: A documentary history of uranium mining and the Navajo people / Doug Brugge and Rob Goble; title: "Human beings are priceless" : interview with Leroy and Lorraine Jack / interview by Phil Harrison ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally; title: Advocacy and social action among Navajo people : uranium workers and their families, 1988-1995 / Susan E. Dawson, Perry H. Charley, and Phillip Harrison Jr.; title: "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; title: Psychological effects of technological/human-caused environmental disasters : examination of the Navajo people and uranium / Carol A. Markstrom and Perry H. Charley; title: "It was like slave work" : oral history of miner Tommy James / interview by Phil Harrison ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally; title: "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; title: The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act : what is fair? / Doug Brugge and Rob Goble; title: "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; title: 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.