The Navajo People and Uranium Mining

navajo uranium miners

A collection of oral histories and other documents relating to the harmful and exploitative history of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation from the 1940s to the 1980s. Uranium-mine operators contracted with the U.S. government in order to extract uranium from Navajo lands, mostly for nuclear-weapons production during the Cold War.

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Timothy Benally

Esther Yazzie-Lewis

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navajos_and_uranium_mining.pdf (7.41 MB)

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