Under Sacred Ground
Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. As tribal government undertook more projects, the revenue from oil and natural gas leases became key parts of the Navajo Nation's finances. From that beginning, the responsibilities and function… Celý popis ↓
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Under Sacred Ground
Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. As tribal government undertook more projects, the revenue from oil and natural gas leases became key parts of the Navajo Nation's finances. From that beginning, the responsibilities and functions of tribal government expanded, fostering economic and political changes that brought the Din people into closer contact with their Anglo neighbors.
The economic development spurred by oil leases is a cautionary tale in the transition from a subsistence to a capitalist economy. This book is an ethnohistory of the changes wrought by oil. The federal stock reduction program imposed in the 1930s and 1940s devastated the Navajo agricultural economy and altered family structure.
Women had owned and cared for the sheep and goat herds which were now reduced in number by hundreds of thousands. Oil did offer some wage work,
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