“We are being given a message from our Mother, the earth. Is it really wise to be building structures at the bottom of the Grand Canyon where it will be vulnerable to earthquakes, flash floods, rockslides and landslides?
This week’s Navajo Times had Deswood Tome, Navajo President Ben Shelly’s special adviser, who said the “Grand Canyon Escalade project is all but guaranteed.”
Former Navajo Nation President Albert Hale is facing driving while intoxicated charges.
Three months after the memorandum of understanding between the tribe and developers expired, the proposed $120 million Grand Canyon Escalade resort is back on the table.
Despite forging a new “Memorandum of Understanding” with prospective developers of a resort at the confluence of the Little Colorado and Colorado rivers on the Navajo Nation, President Ben Shelly says he’s about ready to tell advocates to go jump off a cliff.