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Navajo Dam

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Navajo Dam 402 ft (123 m) high and 3,648 ft (1,112 m) long, NW N.Mex., on the San Juan River, near the Colo. line; built 1958-63 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The dam, a major unit of the Colorado River storage project, regulates the flow of the San Juan River and provides flood control. Water impounded by the dam is used by the Navajos to irrigate a significant portion of land on the Navajo Native American Reservation. Author not available, NAVAJO DAM. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
San Juan
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... in the San Juan Mts., SW Colo., and flowing generally W through N.Mex. and Utah to Lake Powell on the Colorado River. Navajo Dam , part of the upper Colorado River storage project, is on the river, which is unnavigable. Its chief tributaries are ... Read more
Eastlake, William
The Oxford Companion to American Literature ... fantasy and suspense involving a white man about to die and his Navajo friend; Castle Keep (1965), concerning American soldiers seizing ... during the Vietnam War; Dancers in the Scalp House (1975), about Navajos and a lady friend fighting the building of a dam in New Mexico; and The Long, Naked Descent ... Read more

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Navajo medicine men support removal of Glen Canyon dam: Gore's empty rhetoric blasted by Nader, environmentalists
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 8/16/2000; Norrell, Brenda; 690 words ; ... studies to breach the Glen Canyon dam and drain Lake Powell waters covering Navajo sacred sites. Nader and David ... decommissioning studies on Flaming Gorge Dam on the Green River and a comprehensive ... necessity of decommissioning the dam that could restore Glen Canyon ... Read more
Journey to the bottom of Navajo Lake
High Country News; 8/4/2003; Anonymous; 787 words ; ... scanning what remains of Navajo Reservoir. "When they started ... this was where I grew up." Navajo Dam, which spreads across the ... 60 percent of average, and Navajo Reservoir is now at two-thirds ... slice of the past. To build Navajo Dam, the federal government moved ... cows and sheep." ... Read more
UNCOVERING THE TRUTH ART MUSEUM WAGES COURT FIGHT TO RECOVER $430,000 NAVAJO BLANKET.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/6/1999; Chandler, Mary Voelz; 787 words ; Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler News Staff Writer The mystery of the $430,000 Navajo men's wearing blanket turned ... anthropologist. Thirty years after a DAM curator traded the blanket ... in the trade are dead: the DAM curator who let the piece go ... curator of native arts at the DAM, under Conn ... . Read more
Navajos ban uranium mining: a new law bans all uranium mining and processing on Navajo land.
Earth Island Journal; 9/22/2005; LaDuke, Winona; 787 words ; ... uranium mining and processing anywhere on the Navajo Reservation. It's very simple: Uranium kills, said Navajo Council delegate Mark Maryboy. This legislation ... Norman Brown of Dine Bidziil, a coalition of 23 Navajo organizations seeking to end uranium mining on Navajo lands. While celebrating the ... Read more
Navajo whistleblower threatened: Tribal members say his warning was 'wake-up call'
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 1/10/2001; Norrell, Brenda; 787 words ; ... accused non-Indian attorneys of manipulating the Navajo Nation Council and costing the tribe billions ... an anonymous caller, then championed by the Navajo people. Whistleblower and tribal hydrologist ... mainstream Colorado River water rights from the Navajo Nation. As Navajos pressed for answers ... Read more
The Colorado River's sleeping giant stirs; Navajo Nation wants its long-overdue cut of the river
High Country News; 4/28/2003; Anonymous; 787 words ; ... front doors of the Glen Canyon Dam Visitor Center, there hangs ... outside Page, Ariz., to paint the dam, he reportedly groused, "That ... officials obliged by rounding up a Navajo family to sit in the foreground while Rockwell went to work. The Navajo may have made it into the painting ... homes by ... Read more
Navajo uranium ban involves 25 percent of U.S. recoverable uranium
News From Indian Country; 6/27/2005; LaDuke, Winona; 787 words ; LaDuke, Winona News From Indian Country 06-27-2005 ... signaled a bold step for the Navajo Nation, protecting the most ... processing on any sites within Navajo Indian Country." "It's very ... Uranium kills," Mark Maryboy, Navajo Council Delegate said. "This ... Bidziil, a coalition of 23 Navajo ... Read more
Navajo relocation; Indian land, white greed. (Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area)
The Nation; 7/4/1987; Johnson, Trebbe; 787 words ; NAVAJO RELOCATION Indian Land, White Greed July 7, 1986 ... for abouta hundred Hopi and more than 10,000 Navajo Indians to vacate the Arizona land they had shared ... About 1,200 to 1,500 traditional, sheepherding Navajo families still remained in the former Joint Use ... holed up in a survival camp and were ... Read more
Toxic uranium mining banned on the Navajo
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 5/4/2005; Norrell, Brenda; 787 words ; ... uranium mining in the eastern portion of the Navajo Nation. Aneth (Utah) Councilman Mark Maryboy ... council, "It's very simple: uranium kills," Navajos celebrated the council's passage of the Dine ... law by a vote of 69 - 13 on April 19. Then, Navajos immediately began intensifying their ... Read more
Navajo Nation Council postpones decision on councilman's legal fees
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 2/2/1994; Brenda Norrell; 707 words ; ... Norrell Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 02-02-1994 Navajo Nation Council postpones decision on councilman ... Norrell Today Correspondent WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- The Navajo National Council postponed a decision on whether ... form a human barricade with traditional elderly Navajo to halt oil drilling on ... Read more

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