ASSAYS
You see, they had regulations
in Window Rock that a White man
had to locate claims
on our reservation with the name
of a Navajo, so we’d
go get samples and try them out
on the geiger counter.
If we got results,
we'd go back and locate
the claim. We located
fifteen claims
where there was a showing
but I never had the capital
to start any operations
myself. I figured,
you know, I’d turn it all over
to the companies. Myself,
I didn't have a claim
that was feasible to operate.
But just because my prospecting
was a failure, doesn't mean
prospecting on the reservation
overall failed.
There's quite a few mines
developed, and worked
with other people’s names:
thousands and thousands
of dollars were taken
from those men’s mines.