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...Navajos do not get 25? per ton of coal from Utah International, but only 15?. Finally, when MacDonald talked about "shutting things down" at a Navajo energy project he was not referring to the Utah International operation, but to an oil pipeline that runs through the reservation...
Fourteen days and 13 plane trips later, they would pronounce their experiences "Çavaut le voyage"- It's worth the trip. Wearing Western string ties, tractor caps, Grand Canyon sweat shirts, Navajo necklaces and Mickey Mouse T shirts, they would flourish a Gallic gesture: thumbs...
...only one of the six federal agencies indicted in the legal suit. As Peterson Zah, head of Navajo Legal Services, put it, "We're suing the federal government, the first one on the list is James Schlesinger, the Secretary of Energy." The plaintiffs did not choose to indict one federal agency over another since they are all related. The President and the Department of Energy (DOE) jointly make national energy policy, producing Carter's "moral equivalent to war on the energy crisis." The rest of the agencies implement this policy in whichever ways they are most capable. The Interior Department...
...sulphur coal located on Indian reservations, the native peoples will bear the brunt of Carter's energy policy. The land is leased, underground and strip mining commences, and people are relocated. The "Indian wars" are not over. In one year, according to Peter MacDonald, tribal chairman of the Navajo reservation, "The Navajo Nation exports enough energy resources to fuel the needs of the state of New Mexico for 32 years...
...source" of the nuclear fuel cycle is in rebellion. The Navajo lawsuit and the events of last weekend are just a start, expressing growing native resistance to corporate and government exploitation. The government and the companies entice the colonized people with money and jobs, but the people, caretakers of the Western Hemisphere, demand much more. The people demand a future free of radiation, abandoned mines and mills, a future free of the threat of genocide to their children...