Results for keyword: Navajo Nation
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Tribal casinos expand and go upscale
To attract more customers and revenue, many Western tribal casinos are adding resort hotels, golf, spas and fancy restaurants.
by Jason Begay, Mar 18, 2013 -
Will Navajos approve a Grand Canyon megadevelopment?
An audacious development proposal near Grand Canyon National Park divides a tribe and its neighbors.
by Peter Friederici, Dec 10, 2012 -
Three days in the Four Corners
A loop around the Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet, leads into a land of both historical and geological friction.
by Jonathan Thompson, Jul 05, 2012 -
A contaminated history unearthed
Investigative reporter Judy Pasternak describes uranium's effects on the Navajo Nation in Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed.
by Molly Beer, Dec 05, 2010 -
The life and death of Desert Rock
The Navajo Nation's proposed 1,500-megawatt coal plant always rested on shaky ground. Now, it may collapse entirely.
by Laura Paskus, Aug 13, 2010 -
Native power in Tucson
HCN sponsors a conference on energy development and environmental activism on the Hopi and Navajo reservations; visitors; planning; corrections.
by Paul Larmer and Jodi Peterson , Jan 17, 2010 -
Indians vs. Greens?
In a controversial resolution, Hopi and Navajo politicians have told environmentalists – including grassroots Indian groups – that they are not welcome on the Rez.
by Jonathan Thompson, Oct 19, 2009 -
Shifting sands in Navajoland
On the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Jun 23, 2008 -
Tribe takes on toxic waste
The Navajo Nation creates its own version of Superfund
by Stan Bindell, Mar 18, 2008 -
The elephant that was left out of the room …
Indian tribes were left out of the negotiations that divvied up the Colorado River in 1922, but it’s no longer possible to ignore them – particularly in the case of the Navajo Nation.
by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 17, 2008
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