Bibliography: Toxic and Nuclear Wastes,
Dumping on Native American Reservations



Allen, Leslie. 1987. Who Should Control Hazardous Waste on Native American Lands? Looking beyond Washington Department of Ecology v. EPA. Ecology Law Quarterly 14(1): 69-116.

Alverez, Frank H. and J. Kevin Poorman. 1975. Real Property: Congressional Control of Allotted Mineral Interests. American Indian Law Review 3(1): 159-167.

Ambler, Marjane. 1990. Breaking the Iron Bonds: Indian Control of Energy Development. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

Ambler, Marjane. 1991. On the Reservations: No Haste, No Waste. Planning 57(11): 26-29. [In the late 1980s Congress gave Native Americans the authority to adopt their own standards and regulations and to make contracts with the EPA controlling waste dumping on Indian lands. Tribes such as the Umatilla in Oregon, the Sioux in South Dakota, the Kaibab-Paiute in Arizona, the Kaw in Oklahoma, and the Choctaw in Mississippi have rejected proposals to place solid and hazardous waste landfills on the reservations. Their ability to regulate the use of reservation lands has enabled them to work with county planning boards and state and federal agencies to influence environmental decisions which benefit the tribes. - Irwin Weintraub]

Angel, Bradley. 1991. Toxic Threat to Indian Lands: A Greenpeace Report. San Francisco, CA: Greenpeace.

Barry, Tom. 1979. Navajos and National Nuclear Policy. Southwest Economy and Society 4(1): 21-32.

Barry, Tom. 1980. The Energy Drive Finds Resistance in the Jemez Mountains. American Indian Journal 6(8): 19-22.

Bauerlein, Monika. 1995. Prairie Island Revisited: A Minnesota Reservation Fights for a Nuclear-Free Future. Native Americas 12(12): 26-31.

Beasley, Conger Jr. 1990. Of Pollution and Poverty (III): Deadly Threat on Native Lands. Buzzworm: The Environmental Journal 2(5): 39-45. [Discusses the unpublicized spill of 94 million gallons of radioactive waste into the Puerco River, and the activities of the Puerco River Education Project (PREP) and the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) to fight polluters.]

Books, Richard K. 1976. Oil and Gas: The Effect of Oklahoma Conservation Laws on Federal and Indian Lands. Oklahoma Law Review 29: 21-32.

Branam, J.T. 1974. Property Rights: Intertribal Mineral Rights in the Arkansas Riverbed. American Indian Law Review 2(1): 125-136.

Bryant, Bunyan and Paul Mohai eds. 1992. Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards: A Time for Discourse. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Bullard, Robert D. ed. 1993. Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Boston, MA: South End Press.

Cate Gilles and Lena Bravo et al. 1991. Uranium Mining at Grand Canyon: What Costs to Water, Air, and Indigenous People? The Workbook 16(1): 2-17.

Chris Shuey et al. 1985. The "Costs" of Uranium: Who's Paying with Lives, Lands, and Dollars. The Workbook 10(3).

Churchill, Ward and Winona LaDuke. 1992. Native North America: The Political Economy of Radioactive Colonialism. In The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. Boston, MA: South End Press.

Davis, Tony. 1990. Uranium has Decimated Navajo Miners. High Country News, June 18: 1, 10-12.

Davis, Tony. 1992. Apaches Split over Nuclear Waste. High Country News, January 27: 12-14.

Dawson, Susan E. 1992. Navajo Uranium Workers and the Effects of Occupational Illnesses: A Case Study. Human Organization 51(4): 392.

Dawson, Susan E. 1993. Social Work Practice and Technological Disasters: The Navajo Uranium Experience. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 20(2): 5.

Dillingham, Brint. 1977. Exxon, Uranium, and the Navajo Nation. American Indian Journal 3(3): 27.

Eichstaedt, Peter H. 1994. If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans. Santa Fe, NM: Red Crane Books.

Environmental Protection Agency. 1985. Inventory of Hazardous Waste Generators and Sites on Selected Indian Reservations. CERN contract report: CERT/TR-85-1025, Project #061-1025. [Available from the Indian Affairs Coordinator, EPA Region 9, San Francisco.]

Environmental Protection Agency. 1994. Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Permit Programs [microform]: A Primer for Tribes. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Washington, DC: EPA.

Fixico, Donald L. 1985. Tribal Leaders and the Demand for Natural Energy Resources on Reservation Lands. In The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 219-235.

Fox, Steve. 1992. Taking Us Down to the River: An Indian Pueblo Challenges Upstream Polluters. The Workbook 17(4): 146-155.

Gault, Ramona. 1989. Navajos Inherit a Legacy of Radiation. In These Times, 13-19 September: 6.

Gedicks, Al. 1993. The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles against Multinational Corporations. Boston, MA: South End Press.

Goldstick, Miles. 1987. Wollaston: People Resisting Genocide. Montreal, PQ: Black Rose Books. [Uranium mining on indigenous lands in Canada.]

Hardin, Jim. 1989. Indigenous Rights and Uranium Mining in Northern Saskatchewan. Volume 1. In Critical Issues in Native North America. Ward Churchill, ed. Copenhagen: IWGIA, pp. 116-136.

Henderson, Al. 1979. Aneth Community: Oil Crisis in Navajoland. Indian Historian 12(4): 33-36.

Hernandez, Juan A. Avila. 1994. How the Feds are Pushing Nuclear Waste on Reservations. Cultural Survival Quarterly 17(4): 40-42.

Irvin, Amelia. 1982. Energy Development and the Effects of Mining on the Lakota Nation. Journal of Ethnic Studies 10(1).

Kasperson, Roger E. ed. 1983. Equity in Radioactive Waste Management. Boston, MA: Oegleschlager, Gunn and Hain.

Kelly, Lawrence C. 1963. The Navaho Indians: Land and Oil New Mexico Historical Review 38(1): 1-28.

Kemezis, Paul. 1991. Indian Tribes Rise Against Waste Projects. ENR Environmental Update 226: 44.

Knack, Martha C. 1980. MX Issues for Native American Communities. In MX in Nevada: A Humanistic Perspective. Reno, NV: Nevada Humanities Press, pp. 59-66.

LaDuke, Winona. 1979. How Much Development? Akwesasne Notes, Late Winter: 5.

LaDuke, Winona. 1994. Breastmilk, PCBs and Motherhood: An Interview with Katsi Cook, Mohawk. Cultural Survival Quarterly 17(4): 43-45.

Leon S. Gottlieb and Luverne Husen. 1982. Lung Cancer among Navajo Uranium Miners. Chest 81: 449-452.

Leubben, Thomas E. 1976. Mining Agreements with Indian Tribes. American Indian Journal 2(5): 2-8.

Leubben, Thomas E. 1980. American Indian Natural Resources: Oil and Gas. Washington, DC: Institute for the Development of Indian Law.

Levy, Jerrold E. 1980. Who Benefits from Energy Resource Development: The Special Case of Navajo Indians. Social Science Journal 17(1): 1-19.

Link, Terry. 1993. Environmental Racism/Environmental Equity: A Bibliography. Green Library Journal: Environmental Topics in the Information World 2(1): 17-22.

Lipton, Charles J. 1980. The Pros and Cons of Petroleum Agreements. American Indian Journal 6(2): 2-10.

McGee, Patti Palmer. 1976. Indian Lands: Coal Development: Environmental/Economic Dilemma for the Modern Indian. American Indian Law Review 4(2): 279-288.

McGill, Stuart. 1986. Indigenous Resource Rights and Mining Companies in North America and Australia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

McLane, A.E. 1955. Oil and Gas Leasing on Indian Lands. Denver: L.F. Gower.

Morris, Glenn T. 1991. The Battle for Newe Segobia: The Western Shoshone Land Rights Struggle. Volume 2. In Critical Issues in Native North America. Ward Churchill, ed. Copenhagen: IWGIA, pp. 86-98.

National Council of Christ. 1988. The Lumbee River, Lumbee Indians and GSX, Inc. The Egg: National Journal of Eco-Justice : 10-11.

Nietschmann, Bernard and William Le Bon. 1988. Nuclear States and Fourth World Nations. Cultural Survival Quarterly 11(4): 4-7.

Ringholz, Raye C. 1989. Uranium Frenzy: Boom and Bust on the Colorado Plateau. New York, NY: W.W. Norton.

Robbins, Lynn Arnold. 1979. Navajo Energy Politics. Social Science Journal 16(4): 93-119.

Robinson, Wm. Paul. 1992. Uranium Production and Its Effects on Navajo Communities along the Rio Puerco in Western New Mexico. In Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards. Bunyan Bryant and Paul Mohai, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 153-162.

Ruben, Barbara. 1991. Grave Reservations: Waste Company Proposals Targeting Native American Lands are Meeting with a Growing Pattern of Resistance. Environmental Action 23(1): 12-15. [Native Americans around the country are organizing to resist the siting of hazardous waste sites on reservations. Gives examples of events from the Rosebud Reservation (SD), the Kaw Tribe (OK), the Oglala Lakota Sioux, the Los Coyotes Reservation (CA), the Paiutes (AZ) and Choctaw (MI). A 1990 conference on the environmental in South Dakota offered workshops on grassroots organizing and methods of dealing with waste and developing environmentally sound economic alternatives. The Toxics on Indian Land Network in Ontario, Canada, is organizing activists from the United States and Canada to focus on issues of environmental justice for Native Americans. - Irwin Weintraub (shortened)]

Ruffing, Lorraine T. 1978. Navajo Mineral Development. Indian Historian 11(1): 28-41.

Ruffing, Lorraine T. 1979. Strategy for Assessing Indian Control over Mineral Development. In Economic Development in American Indian Reservations. Roxanne D. Ortiz, ed. Albuquerque, NM: Native American Studies, University of New Mexico, pp. 136-144.

Ruffing, Lorraine T. 1980. Fighting the Sub-Standard Lease. American Indian Journal 6(6): 2-8.

Saugstad, Kathryn. 1977. Indian Coal Authorities: The Concept of Federal Preemption and Independent Tribal Coal Development on the Northern Great Plains. North Dakota Law Review 53: 469-497.

Schwab, Jim. 1994. Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue-Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club. [Discusses mining on Navajo lands and toxic waste disposal on reservations, pp. 321-82. Bibliography on environmental justice.]

Simonds, Jerome H. 1975. The Acquisition of Rights to Prospect for and Mine Coal from Tribal and Allotted Indian Lands. Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute Proceedings 21: 125-162.

Sinclair, William F. 1984. Native Self-Reliance through Resource Development. Vancouver, BC Hemlock Printer.

Sonosky, Marvin J. 1960. Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals on Indian Reservations. Federal Bar Journal 20: 230-234.

Taliman, Valerie. 1992. The Toxic Waste of Indian Lives. Covert Action Information Bulletin 40: 16-22.

Tomsho, Robert. 1990. Dumping Grounds: Indian Tribes Contend with Some of Worst of American's Pollution. Wall Street Journal, November 29

Tonantzin Land Institute. 1988. Havasupai, Forest Service at Loggerheads over Canyon Mine. Tribal Peoples Survival, Summer: 2.

Toole, K. Ross. 1976. The Rape of the Great Plains: Northwest America, Cattle and Coal. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. [Chapters 2 and 3 deal with native peoples.]

Tso, Harold and Laura M. Shields. 1980. Navajo Uranium Operations: Early Hazards and Recent Interventions. New Mexico Journal of Science 20(1): 11-17.

[various]. 1993. [Issue devoted to Native American/Alaskan Native health concerns.] Hazardous Substances and Public Health 3(1).

Viers, Becky J. Miles. 1978. Environmental Law: Uranium Mining on the Navajo Reservation. American Indian Law Review 7(1): 115-124.

West, Patrick C. 1992. Health Concerns for Fish-Eating Tribes? EPA Journal 18: 15-16.

Wilson, Terry. 1985. The Underground Reservation: Osage Oil. Nebraska.

Women of All Red Nations. 1980. Radiation: Dangerous to Pine Ridge Women. Akwesasne Notes, Spring.



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