Wastelanding

Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country is a 2015 non-fiction book by Traci Brynne Voyles.

The book uses the Navajo (Diné) names for places, as part of the author's wider attempts to document things from a decolonised perspective.

[1] It notes the 1930s permission given to companies to develop resources,[2] as government scientists declared the land as "barren" and started efforts to reduce Navajo Nation's cattle numbers.

[1] The book concludes with the author's push for society to adopt truthful, non-colonial versions of history, and illustrates how uranium mines are located on places sacred to the Navajo people, examples include Tsoodzil.

Cook describes the book as impressive, but notes that the author avoided the topic of tribal government's role in resource extraction, although calls this an "excusable oversight".