Voices from the Field

TRIBAL COUNCILS

             I'm the Superintendent of Water 
Development of the Navajo Tribe. 
I started to prospect on the reservation 

after the Second World War.
We worked out a program 

where the Navajo
individual could go out and prospect 
and take leases: a lot of the Navajo boys 
worked in the mines.
 
                           For a long while, we 
were one of the big 
operators, until the ore

market started to go down, and then
the Atomic Energy Commission came
onto the reservation. 

This was the only market that we had.

I think they should give it all back 
to the Navajo tribe and let the Navajo

run this: not only the oil, but uranium.
There’s big, big potential.
I don't think we've even touched the surface
of all the uranium here.

                                      I think that we 
could do a better mining job, 
do it faster. I think that we
learned lots of things from the Atomic 
Energy Commission we could apply 
ourselves if we went back in there. 

                                      I think we need to compete 
with the outside world.

A lot of Navajos are very capable 
with their hands. They are very good operators.

I think 
we could help ourselves.
 

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