Promise made: The Navajo indian irrigation project and water politics in the American West. Doctoral thesis

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:6736444

Jacobsen, J E

According to the 1962 legislation by which the U.S. Congress authorized the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project (NIIP), a federal reclamation project on the Navajo Reservation in northwest New Mexico, it was to bring economic development to the Navajo Tribe in the form of 18,000 jobs on family farms and related enterprises, all in 14 years. The project is today just over half completed, it is a single corporate agribusiness that employs a few hundred Navajo during the peak harvest season, and there are pressures to reduce the size of the project.

• Research Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6736444
• Report Number(s): PB-93-135853/XAB; NCAR/CT-119
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Doctoral thesis
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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