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From 1930s to the 1960s, the United States knowingly used and discarded a whole tribe of individuals. The Navajo worked well unprotected in the uranium mines that fueled the Manhattan Task and the Cold Battle. Long after these mines were abandoned, Navajos in all four corners of the Reservation (which edges Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona) sustained grazing their animals on sagebrush flats riddled with uranium that had been blasted from the bottom. They drank contaminated normal water from old pits, which possessed filled with rainfall. They built their homes out of chunks of yellowcake, they inhaled radioactive dust particles borne aloft from the waste material piles the mining companies possessed left out, and their children performed in the unsealed mines themselves. A decade after the mines closed down, the tumors rate on the reservation raised and the babies commenced to be delivered with crooked hands that fused alongside one another into claws as they grew. Researchers filed complaints about the situation with the government but were told it was a mess "very costly" to clean up. Few possessed heard this tale until Judy Pasternak open it in a prizewinning Los Angeles Times series. Her work not only influenced this e book, which is already successful of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Honor, it also galvanized both a congressman and a famous prosecutor to clean the sites and get reparations for the tribe. Yellow Mud powerfully chronicles both the scandal of neglect and the Navajo's attack for justice.
