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...their arid, windswept reservation at the corner of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, the Navajo Indians dragged on for generations in disease-ridden, edge-of-hunger poverty. Untrained for the fast changing white men's world, they seemed resigned to everlasting subsistence-living and stagnation. Then, a year ago, money began flowing in as U.S. oil companies scrambled for gas and oil leases in the Southwest's vast Paradox Basin, much of it lying in the Navajo and Ute reservations...
...tradition and legend, poverty-gnarled Indians who suddenly come into oil money-as in Oklahoma in the 1920s-throw it around in wild spending sprees, and the off-the-reservation Navajos have done their part to keep the legend alive. Near Farmington, N. Mex. last August, a Navajo family living on its own outside the reservation celebrated an oil-lease bonanza by throwing an alcoholic blowout for friends and relatives. As the party rolled on, the wife sent to Farmington for 17 pickup trucks as gifts for the guests. Finally, after a fortnight of roistering, the party broke...
Wheelchairs & Rams. The tribal system that kept the Navajos surviving in the years of poverty has saved most of those on the reservation from yielding to such impulses when the oil starts to flow. Among both Navajos and Utes, money from leases on reservation lands goes not to individuals but to the tribe, and the tribal councils, with approval of the U.S. Government, have taken a firm grip on the purse strings. Last week, as the 74-member Navajo council pored over the $12 million fiscal-1958 budget at the tribe's octagonal headquarters in Window Rock, Ariz...
...real tribal New Deal, the Navajo council has resisted the temptation to ease poverty with cash handouts: divvied up among the 86,000 Navajos, last year's $35 million tribal oil income would have meant only $400 apiece. Under the leadership of grey-haired Chairman Paul Jones, 62, a full-blooded Navajo, with a full count of glittering gold-filled teeth, the council spends very little for outright charity, devotes most of its budget to education and development projects. Items: ¶A $5,000,000 fund to provide 400 college scholarships a year...
Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). People of the Desert, pictorial report on the Navajo Indian and the Blue Men of Morocco...