Footnotes

1. New York Times, Nov. 4, 1982.

2. Mary Shepardson, Navajo Ways in Government, American Anthropological Association, Vol. 65, No. 3, Part 2, June 1973, and Philip Reno, Manpower Planning for Navajo Employment, New Mexico Business, November/December, 1970.

3. Lorraine Ruffing, The Navajo Nation: Cultivating Underdevelopment, Akwesasne Notes, Autumn 1978, pp. 7-11; Lynn Robbins, The Navajo Nation and Industrial Developments, Southwest Economy and Society, Spring 1977, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 47-69; New York Times, December 16, 1981, p. 20.

4. Main sources on Diné history before the U.S. conquest of the Southwest:

5. Main sources on Diné history during the U.S. conquest:

6. Main sources on Diné history between the U.S. conquest and the establishment of the Tribal Council:

7. Main sources on the development of the Tribal Council and the Diné bourgeoisie:

8. Main sources on the ruin of the Diné peasantry and the stock reduction program:

9. Meriam Report, 1928, quoted in Lawrence Weiss, Industrial Reserve Armies of the Southwest, Navajo and Mexican, Southwest Economy and Society, Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 1977, p. 22.

10. Main sources on the development of the Diné proletariat:

11. Gerald Boyle, Tax Alternatives, Economic Development in American Indian Reservations, op. cit., pp. 119-124.

12. Jeff Gillenkirk and Mark Dowie, The Great Indian Power Grab, Mother Jones, January 1982, p. 18.

13. Navajo Nation, Navajo Tribal Council Resolutions, Navajo Tribal Code

14. Kent Gilbreath, Red Capitalism: An-Analysis of the Navajo Economy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973. See also Navajo Times, various issues, and Amerindian, American Indian Review, various issues.

15. Navajo Times.

16. Peter McDonald, Inaugural Address, January 1979, Navajo Nation.

17. Main sources on tribal enterprises:

18. Quoted in Iverson, op. cit., p. xxvi.

19. Main sources on the relations between the Navajo government and the U.S. government:

20. Main sources on the exploitation of Diné mineral resources:

21. Quoted in Stein, op. cit., p. 31.

22. Quoted in Gillenkirk et al., op. cit., pp. 47-48.

23. Main sources on McDonald and Zah:

24. Main sources on the Diné proletariat today:

25. Iverson, op. cit.

26. Ibid.

27. Al Henderson, The Anneth Community Oil Crisis in Navajoland, Wassaja, The Indian Historian, Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 1979, pp. 33-36.

28. Big Mountain News, various issues.

29. Quoted in Tribal People's Survival.

30. Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign speech, quoted in Wassaja, The Indian Historian, Vol. 13, No. 3, p. 7.

31. V.I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 21. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977. pp. 411-412.

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