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A 5 page paper discussing the federal government's efforts to reduce the sheep and goat herds of the Navajo Indians in the early 1930s in environmental concern about the contribution of silt to the reservoir that would be created by the Hoover Dam. Hoover Dam brought much improvement to life in the Southwest in terms of electrification, flood control, water availability and irrigation, but in many respects it did so at the expense of the Navajo people and the Navajo way of life, and largely with impunity. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: CC6_KSlawHoovDam.rtf
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In the late 1960s Vine Deloria published what would become a cult classic of sorts that all too often was too graphic in terms of the federal governments treatment
of the countrys native peoples. In Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, Deloria chronicled much of the pattern of the federal governments willingness to make treaties with
Indians of various tribes, but its consistent reticence in keeping those treaties. Deloria (1969) claimed that not one of the treaties made with Native Americans to that time had
persisted past government involvement. Similarly, Stevens (1988) illustrates the federal governments general incompetence and lack of concern for the Navajo people living near
the proposed and actual sites of what would become Hoover Dam. In fairness, it was believed that the dam would solve many of the problems of the area in
terms of flood control and lack of electrification in the region, and it was long before the use of dams in general was suspected in environmental damage. Even so,
there were many points of law that came under assault in the early history of the dam. This paper will focus on those directly affecting the Navajo people who
lived nearby. Rationale for Hoover Dam The benefits that a dam on the Colorado River could bring to the southwestern United States were
clear. The federal government authorized the construction of the dam in 1928, primarily because it would serve "several important functions. It supplied the entire southwestern United States with electricity;
it protected a major agricultural area in southern California from flooding; and it provided water to Los Angeles" (Flanders, 1998; p. 425). As is the case with all dams,
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