Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil, 1922-1982

Author/Contributor(s):	Chamberlain, Kathleen P.
Publisher:	UNM Press
Date:	6/16/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. This ethnohistory tracks the major changes brought to the Navajo people in the six decades following the discovery and exploitation of oil and gas on tribal lands.