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Manley Begay, a doctoral student at the School of Education who is also a Navajo, says that in order for AIP's place at Harvard to be secure and effective, it needs more money...
...employer, D.N.A-People's Legal Services, a legal aid organization on the Navajo Indian Reservation, sent me to recruit and interview law students at Harvard and a number of other law schools in the Boston area. D.N.A. has recruited on campus at the Law School for many years and a great number of attorneys who have worked on this program over the years, including myself, graduated from Harvard Law School...
...finds a carton on her desk. She is stunned. Inside the box are some clumps of dirt and a note proposing that the contents -- the remains of her grandparents, freshly dug up from a New England cemetery -- be put on display by the museum. The sender is a part-Navajo conservator at the institution, furious that such a fate has befallen the bones of his ancestors...
Visitors to the Grand Canyon have long complained that smog is ruining the view. A National Park Service study tracked winter weather patterns and the sources of the haze. The main culprit: Arizona's Navajo Generating Station, an electrical plant 80 miles away. The plant, burning 24,000 tons of coal daily and releasing an estimated 12 to 13 tons of sulfur dioxide from its smokestacks every hour, was found responsible for about half the Grand Canyon's pollution...
Last week the Environmental Protection Agency recommended that up to $1 billion in pollution controls be installed at the station. But the Federal Bureau of Reclamation owns a 24% interest in Navajo and would have to contribute to the cleanup. Faced with an interagency imbroglio, Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan responded in classic fashion by ordering up yet another study, thus casting further haze over the future of Grand Canyon...