TY - BOOK AU - Pasternak,Judy TI - Yellow dirt: an American story of a poisoned land and a people betrayed SN - 9781416594826 AV - E99.N3 P378 2010 U1 - 979.1004/9726 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, NY PB - Free Press KW - Navajo Indians KW - Government relations KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Health and hygiene KW - Biography KW - Uranium mines and mining KW - Political aspects KW - Southwest, New KW - Social aspects KW - Radiation KW - Health aspects KW - Navajo Indian Reservation KW - Ethnic relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-304) and index; 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 Åeetso ; 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 N2 - "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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1006/2010005546-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1006/2010005546-d.html ER -