Under Sacred Ground: A History Of Navajo Oil, 1922-1982 [Paperback]

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.Kathleen P. Chamberlainis professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author ofVictorio: Apache Leader and Warrior(2007) andUnder Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil, 1922-1982(UNM Press, 2000) and coauthor ofPower and Promise: The Changing American Westwith Gary C. Anderson (2008).