Uranium industry--Environmental aspects--Navajo Indian Reservation
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Compensation for Navajo Uranium Miners collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-936-BC
Abstract
This small collection consists of records related to compensation for Navajo uranium miners who contracted cancer and silicosis due to radiation exposure.
Dates:
1989-2004
Michael and Marianne O'Shaughnessy: photography for Red Crane Books, 1989-2001
Unprocessed
Identifier: HP.2006.19
Dates:
1989-2001
Navajo Uranium Miners Oral History and Photography Project
Collection
Identifier: MSS -622-BC
Scope and Content
This oral history project consists of 26 individual interviews with former uranium miners or family members of the Navajo Tribe on 26 different cassette tapes. This collection also contains 14 DVDs containing 3 interviews, scenery shots from the mines and the area where the miners lived, as well as some miscellaneous, untranscribed interviews.The interviews were conducted in either Navajo or English by Mr. Benally. Most interviews, or excerpts from them, were transcribed in both...
Dates:
1996-1998
Navajo Uranium Miners Oral History and Photography Project Photographs
Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-622
Abstract
The collection contains photographs which depict former Navajo uranium miners from the Four Corners area and members of their families.
Dates:
1996
Reports and Papers Related to the Navajo Nation
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1121-BC
Abstract
The collection contains working papers and reports concerning the Navajo Nation.
Dates:
1937-1979; Majority of material found in 1972-1979