Yellow dirt : an American story of a poisoned land and a people betrayed / Judy Pasternak.

"Judy Pasternak tells the haunting story of uranium mining in the Navajo desert and its long-ignored legacy"--from book on disc.

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Main Author: Pasternak, Judy, 1956-
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, 2010.
Edition:First Free Press hardcover edition.
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Physical Description:xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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 łeetso -- Cold War -- The obstacle -- A hundred tons a day -- Endings -- Toxic legacy -- pt. III. The grandchildren -- Aftermath -- Fallout -- Avalanche of suspicion -- A blind eye and a deaf ear -- pt. IV. The great-grandchildren -- Death and awakening -- "Hear our voices" -- Under scrutiny from every angle -- Resistance -- Ghosts -- Beginnings -- Epilogue: The steeple. 
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