A nation within : Navajo land and economic development / Ezra Rosser, American University.

"In A Nation Within, Ezra Rosser explores the connection between land-use patterns and development in the Navajo Nation. Roughly the size of Ireland or West Virginia, the Navajo reservation has seen successive waves of natural resource-based development over the last century: grazing and over-grazi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosser, Ezra (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Law and economic development > Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah > Economic conditions.
Navajo people > Economic conditions.
Navajo (Indiens) > Conditions économiques.
Economic history.
Law and economic development.
Navajo Indians > Economic conditions.
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
Physical Description:xiii, 312 pages : illustrations, map, photographs ; 24 cm
Online version available via EBSCO Discovery Service on MSU Libraries website.
Variant Title:
Navajo land and economic development
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I : Past
  • The Navajo Nation
  • A new and old deal for Navajos : oil and sheep
  • War production and growing pains : uranium and coal
  • Part II : Present
  • Alternative environmental paths
  • Golf balls and discretionary funds
  • Improving Tribal governance
  • Part III : Future
  • Locally grounded development
  • Reclaiming the land
  • Creating space for experimentation
  • Sovereign assertions
  • Conclusion.