Navajo Resources and Economic Development (A Report of the Southwest Region Under Stress Policy Project)

摘要

Major Navajo natural resources are recorded, inventoried, and reviewed as a means of using them for optimal benefit to the Navajo people. Demand for Indian energy resources is putting increasing strain on both tribal ownership of these resources and on the United States trust responsibility for them. The diminishing supply of energy resources and the rising energy demand affecting Indian communities also urgently affects much of the Southwest and West. This report covers renewable resources of rangeland, water, irrigated land and forests, and non-renewable energy resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium. Additional subjects discussed include Indian economics, and the Navajo people, institutions, and resources. This information will be used to assess the impact of economic growth on this energy rich but ecologically fragile region. The text is amplified by maps, tables, and references.