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If You Poison Us is an important work and should be read by anyone who cares about justice.--STEWART I. UDALL

If You Poison Us Uranium and Native Americans by Peter H. Eichstaedt Foreword by Jerry Straus Photography by Murrae Haynes 272 pages, 6 x 9 32 color, 50 b/w photos $19.95 cloth, 1-878610-40-6

This is the story of how America's frantic entry into the nuclear age impacted Native American communities

he supply of uranium that fueled the Cold War came largely from the Four Corners area of the Colorado Plateau. Some of the richest deposits were found on the Navajo Reservation, where about one-fourth of the miners and millers were Native Americans. Responding to an urgent plea to help defend our country, and eager to earn miners' wages, poverty-stricken Native Americans labored to feed the atomic mill. For nearly three decades in the face of growing evidence that uranium mining was dangerous, state and federal agencies avoided responsibility for warning the miners or imposing safety measures in the mines. Peter H. Eichstaedt, award-winning reporter, has written extensively on radioactive waste problems and political, cultural, and social issues for The New Mexican newspaper as well as publishing numerous articles in national and regional magazines.