Native America: The Economics of Radioactive Colonization
Winona La Duke, the author of "Native America, the Economics of Radioactive Colonization, " is an Anishinaabe Indian currently living on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Using as examples uranium development in the Navajo Nation and in the Laguna Pueblo of New Mexico. She shows ho...
| Published in: | Review of Radical Political Economics |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
1983
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/048661348301500303 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/048661348301500303 |
| Summary: | Winona La Duke, the author of "Native America, the Economics of Radioactive Colonization, " is an Anishinaabe Indian currently living on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Using as examples uranium development in the Navajo Nation and in the Laguna Pueblo of New Mexico. She shows how Native Americans have been forced into dependence on the mining companies. Rather than viable economic development of the reservations, the fruits of uranium mining have been lung cancer and radioactive contamination. |
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