Oral history interviews of the Navajo Uranium Miners Oral History and Photography Project, 1996-1998.

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Navajo Uranium Miners Oral History and Photography Project. Oral history interviews of the Navajo Uranium Miners Oral History and Photography Project, 1996-1998.

Oral history interviews of the Navajo Uranium Miners Oral History and Photography Project, 1996-1998.

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This oral history project consists of 26 individual interviews with former Navajo uranium miners or family members on 27 different cassette tapes. This collection also contains 11 video recordings containing 3 interviews, scenery shots from the mines and the area where the miners lived, as well as some miscellaneous, untranscribed interviews. Excerpts from the interviews and still, black and white photographs were compiled into a book entitled, Memories come to us in the rain and the wind: oral histories and photographs of Navajo uranium miners and their families. A copy of this book is in the collection. This project addressess the health issues such as some of the effects of prolonged exposure to radioactive uranium and the failure of health officials to educate the Navajo on safety issues and potential dangers regarding uranium. This project also shows how many Navajo miners who got cancer and other diseases from working in the mines, were not compensated.

11 videocassettes (VHS) (ca. 11 hrs.)Transcripts 2 folders.

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