Word: navajos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Some $500,000 for clothing for schoolchildren so that the poorest Navajo youngster can go warmly dressed to school...
...ranch for breeding high-grade rams to improve Navajo herds...
...Things & Thugs. With the oil income going for scholarships instead of firewater, things are looking better for the Navajos than at any time since the day when Coronado hove into the area in 1540. "We are shooting for big things," says Chairman Jones. "Within a few years we hope to have every Navajo child over six in school. We want to send our young people to college. We want them to come back to us, too, and we will use oil money to make places for them as doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers...