Skull Valley Goshutes and the politics of nuclear waste: Environment, identity, and sovereignty

Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 304-342

  Lewis, David Rich ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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