| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.4

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Book Review

Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil, 1922–1982. By Kathleen P. Chamberlain. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xii + 177 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

If they possess so much wealth in natural resources--so much coal, uranium, natural gas, and oil reserves--why, then, are the Navajos so poor? That is the question scholars, American Indian activists, and tribal leaders have been asking for many years. Kathleen Chamberlain's book, Under Sacred Ground, a concise, yet detailed history of the push and pull of oil politics on Navajo land, provides a compelling explanation. She states, "oil could have provided a safety net; it should have eased Navajos into the mainstream economy" (p. 113). But, according to Chamberlain, due to the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) paternalistic mismanagement of tribal resources and the lack of corporate accountability, oil did not significantly cushion the impact of capitalist development on the lives of Navajo people. . . .

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