The Navajo People and Uranium Mining

Book Overview

The Navajo Nation covers a vast stretch of northeastern Arizona and parts of New Mexico and Utah. The area is also home to more than one thousand abandoned uranium mines and four former uranium mills, a legacy of the U.S. nuclear program.

In the early 1940s the Navajo Nation was in the early stages of economic development, recovering from the devastating stock reduction period of 1930. Navajo men sought work away from the reservation on railroads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826337791
• ISBN13: 9780826337795
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"