The effects of power production and strip mining on local Navajo populations

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1976

OSTI ID:7304273

Callaway, D G; Levy, J E; Henderson, E B

The economic and social conditions of Navajos living adjacent to Lake Powell, the Navajo Generating Station, and the Black Mesa coal mine are compared with those of populations living at some distance from these recent economic developments. The material presented is descriptive and discussion is limited to comparisons of whole populations. Incomes, levels of employment, and levels of education are studied in the impact area around Lake Powell. Levels of unemployment and welfare expenditures are noted in these populations. There are indications, that observed differences are not so much the result of transformation of local populations as they are the effects of migration of younger, more skilled workers into new settlements in the vicinity of the Navajo Generating Station and elsewhere near the town of Page, Arizona.

• Research Organization: Lake Powell Research Project, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7304273
• Report Number(s): PB-261683; Bull-22
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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