Yellow dirt : an American story of a poisoned land and a people betrayed / Judy Pasternak.
Pasternak, Judy, 1956-
2010
E99.N3 P378 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Yellow dirt : an American story of a poisoned land and a people betrayed / Judy Pasternak.
Author Pasternak, Judy, 1956-
Edition 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
ISBN 9781416594826
1416594825
Publication Details New York, NY : Free Press, 2010.
Language English
Description xiii, 317 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number E99.N3 P378 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 979.1004/9726
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 bombs. Secretly, during the days of the Manhattan Project and then in a frenzy during the Cold War, the government bought up all the uranium that could be mined from the hundreds of rich deposits entombed under the sagebrush plains and sandstone cliffs. Despite warnings from physicians and scientists that long-term exposure could be harmful, even fatal, thousands of miners would work there unprotected. A second set of warnings emerged about the environmental impact. Yet even now, long after the uranium boom ended, and long after national security could be cited as a consideration, many residents are still surrounded by contaminated air, water, and soil. The radioactive 'yellow dirt' has ended up in their playgrounds, in their bread ovens, in their churches, and even in their garbage dumps. And they are still dying"--Cover, p. 2.
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S-37, SOM, and SOQ
The uranium rush. The patriarch : discovery. The special rocks ; The secret quest ; Jumping on the king
The son : fear and frenzy
The power of Łeetso ; Cold War ; The obstacle ; A hundred tons a day ; Endings ; Toxic legacy. The grandchildren : aftermath. Fallout ; Avalanche of suspicion ; A blind eye and a deaf ear
The great-grandchildren : death and awakening. "Hear our voices" ; Under scrutiny from every angle ; Resistance ; Ghosts ; Beginnings
The steeple.

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