The Navajo Nation is really taking it on the chin from the “climate change” boys and girls. Coal mines are all closed down. Power plants are just about all gone. I don’t think it’s going to take more than three of four of them to flip the switch on the massive solar panel farms to turn the panels off and on. Jobs were few and far between on the rez before. Now, they’re non-existent. The Hopis were fighting the Climate Changers off for a while but that tribe is just too small to be effective.
“While this is good news for the Patagonia and North Face set, it is not good news for tribal members who own royalties on those lands”
Where do Northface and Patagonia source the petrol based products they use to make their overpriced clothing?
What did they expect a Dim prez to do, given that Dim Andrew Jackson, who started the Dim party, was the trail of tears prez?
Gas prices down?
No around here, up .50¢ a gallon in the last ten days.
As an aside, why are the Tribes who are “Separate Nations” with their own laws and exempt from many we suffer under allowed to vote in US elections?
Trust the Government?
Just ask any Indian.......................
Zactly....Trump did so much for the Four Corners tribes and they stabbed him in the back.
B-but they’re simple people of the land, herding their sheep and making blankets and jewelry./s
Is the Navajo Nation a sovereign nation?
They can fix their own problems.
I know some Navajos in Page, AZ, really nice people, interesting to hang out with, but their attitude about political things are very different from most Americans. A few years back they got a large settlement from the US government over past royalty issues, I think it was around $550 million. I asked one what he thought about it when the award was finalized. He shrugged and said, “I hope the Elders make good decisions about how to use the money.” They seem very passive about their governance, they just concentrate on their daily lives.
They do have a good sense of humor. We got into his old Pathfinder to go for a drive and he said, “This car has Navajo air conditioning. Roll down the windows!”
There were several attempts to put more power plants and oil processing facilities on the Navajo Reservation fifty years ago.. The American Indian Movement(AIM Assholes in Moccasins) got it all shut down as they did the Fairchild Plant in Shiprock.
That is when we decided to move from Farmington NM (a place I still love) back to the land of the Cherokees.
A few years ago, I railfanned the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad. It was a landlock railroad owned by the Navajos that ran from their coal mine to the power. It was powered by E60 electric locomotives. (E60 were beautiful GE locos.) Now it is gone...
Bkmk