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Environmental Health -- Shouldn't It Be A Priority?
Farm Workers: Are They Really Protected in the Fields?
Integrated Pest Management--Using Common Sense
Desert Voices: Perspectives on Chicano Communities
Bioterror at Home: Biological Research -- A Short Step to Weapon's Production
Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Bomb Facility Proposed
Building Community Capacity: Training and Assessments of Uranium Impacts in Diné Communities
NMED Assists Permit Applicants in Exploiting the Public
Book Reviews
SRIC Extras

When uranium mining and processing became big business during the Cold War, the federal government subsidized the industry. Most of the United States' uranium came out of Navajo ground. The Navajo people had a nominal say in the process at the time, but have endured all of the consequences since then. The land was torn open for our nuclear arsenal and the Navajo people are still dying from the cancers and illnesses that it caused.

I do not want a fourth generation of my people to suffer from the physical, psychological and cultural devastation caused by predatory energy practices. The lack of tribal consent contained in the Indian Energy title means that the federal government could override the Navajo law that prohibits uranium-mining activities on our land.

Joe Shirley, Jr.
President, Navajo Nation
"Senate Energy Bill Exploits Indian Resources"
Albuquerque Journal, July 18, 2003

The following books were reviewed in this issue of Voices.

	Children of Native America Today Yvonne Wakim Dennis & Arlene Hirschfelder Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2003
	Selling Social Change (Without Selling Out): Earned Income Strategies for Nonprofits Andy Robinson San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002
	Handbook of Water Use and Conservation Amy Vickers Amherst, MA: WaterPlow Press, 2001
	Ask the Bugman: Environmentally Safe Ways to Control Household Pests Richard Fagerlund, B.C.E., and Johnna Lachnit; Illustrations by Johnna Lachnit Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002

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