Item details: Yellow dirt : an American story of a poisoned land and a people betrayed - 46083680

Yellow dirt : an American story of a poisoned land and a people betrayed

text Yellow dirt : an American story of a poisoned land and a people betrayed

Pasternak, Judy

Summary: "Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today. From the 1940s into the early twenty-first century, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe for the sake of atomic bom... Read more

Contents: Prologue: S-37, SOM, and SOQ -- The uranium rush -- pt. I. The patriarch -- Discovery -- The special rocks -- The secret quest -- Jumping on the king -- pt. II. The son -- Fear and frenzy -- The power of leetso -- Cold War -- The obstacle -- A hun... Read more

Format: text

Description: xiii, 317 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Publisher: Free Press 2010

Library	Location	Status
Woodmere (Main Branch)	979.1004 PAS in Adult Non-fiction	Available

Library	Location	Status
TADL-WOOD	979.1004 PAS in Adult Non-fiction	Available

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Navajo Indians Government relations History 20th century Navajo Indians Health and hygiene History 20th century Navajo Indians Biography 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 Navajo Indian Reservation History 20th century Southwest, New Ethnic relations History 20th century

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