Abstract

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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