| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining. Edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis. Foreword by Stewart L. Udall. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xix + 210 pp. Illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliographies, index. $29.95.)

When Judy Pasternak's four part series in the Los Angeles Times on the ecological and social impacts of uranium mining at the Navajo Nation won the 2007 Risser Prize for best environmental journalism, one judge lauded it as "a great story that hasn't been told." While this may be true of mainstream American media outlets, it is not among Navajos and other indigenous communities. The extent to which the story of the harm and degradation brought on by uranium mining, well-known among Navajo people, is documented in the new edited volume, The Navajo People and Uranium Mining. This volume presents an indigenous interpretation of environmental justice through a combination of oral histories and academic analyses of uranium mining's impact. In doing so, it works toward decolonization of what Ward Churchill and Winona LaDuke have labeled "radioactive colonialism" by documenting a grass roots history of mining, providing data useful for miner compensation, and participating in community-based education on the on-going dangers of closed uranium mines and the potential risks of future mining operations. More than just an historical account, this book is critically important today because, although the Navajo Nation recently passed the Diné Natural Resources Protection Act (2005) banning uranium extraction, wealthy mining corporations are putting on a full-court press to resume operations on and near the Navajo Nation.

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