Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed

by Judy Pasternak

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WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD Atop a craggy mesa in the northern reaches of the Navajo reservation lies what was once a world-class uranium mine called Monument No. 2. Discovered in the 1940s--during the government's desperate press to build nuclear weapons--the mesa's tremendous lode would forever change the lives of the hundreds of Native Americans who labored there and of their families, including many who dwelled in the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1416594825

ISBN13:9781416594826

Release Date:September 2010

Publisher:Free Press

Length:317 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Community Activism Non-Fiction 20th Century Americas History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Native American Nuclear State & Local Weapons & Warfare

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