WastelandingWastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U. S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U. S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top secret Manhattan Project. Today,