Breaking the Iron Bonds: Indian Control of Energy Development
(Part of the Development of Western Resources Series)
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It is, perhaps, not well known that Indian people own about one-third of the country's western coal and uranium resources, as well as vast quantities of oil and natural gas. In the early 1960s, lurid news accounts about the Black Mesa strip mine in Arizona and the manipulation of the Navajos and Hopis shocked the American public, Indian and non-Indian alike. The mine became a symbol of the exploitation of Indian people and Indian resources to satisfy...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0700605185
ISBN13:9780700605187
Release Date:February 1990
Publisher:University Press of Kansas
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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Breaking the Iron Bonds:
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An exhaustive and seminal study of a pivotal epoch in contemporary Indian History. Skillfully, Ambler describes patterns of corporate exploitation, BIA indifference, fickle federal policies, perennial congressional investigations, and development of energy resources for tribes. This book will endure as a major reference on the legal evolution of tribal control over natural resources.
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