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Naseyowna and many of the 11,156 other residents of the reservation, along with a roughly equal number of neighboring Navajo, blame their dry springs and receding wells on Peabody Energy, which pumps 1.3 billion gal. of pristine water a year--enough to supply a community of 4,000 households--out of an ancient sandstone aquifer that lies beneath the Hopi and Navajo lands. Peabody claws coal out of land leased from the tribes at a site known as Black Mesa and pulverizes it into powder. The company then mixes the coal with water and pumps it through a pipeline...
Peabody executives have stepped up efforts to reach an agreement since June, when CEO Irl Engelhardt, 54, met with Hopi and Navajo leaders in Flagstaff, Ariz. "We're not happy about the continuing controversy over the water," says Fred Palmer, a Peabody executive vice president. "We'd like to see it resolved...
...curious, but I need to know more. Follow-up links are readily available, some official, some more casual. And there are plenty of information clearinghouses, sites where one can find verses from the King James version of Leviticus or a paper on the meaning of a Navajo Blessing Way Ceremony. There are catalogs of databases and libraries, along with listings of virtual religions that exist online only - apparently because all the roadside stands were taken...
...wind through amazing formations of brilliantly colored rocks, undulating canyons and soaring buttes. Along the shoreline are hundreds of hidden beaches that slope gently into the depths. All this is set against the backdrop of more than 1 million acres of pristine desert, much of it belonging to the Navajo Indian Reservation. Those who have experienced the vistas and serene waters of Lake Powell call it the crown jewel of the Southwest...
Known for its Native American art, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz., has an exceptional collection of kachina dolls, beautiful ceremonial figures often dressed in embroidered robes. In keeping with its emphasis on the traditional cultures of the Southwest, the Heard has outstanding collections of Navajo textiles, jewelry and pottery from many Indian peoples...