Two shepherds spied a shiny, black pickup truck crawling on dirt road near a gully that plunges into the Salt Trail Canyon in southern Bodaway. What they found inside gave them a shock.
More than 60,000 petition signatures from Navajos and also from worldwide were counted by Navajo officials. Only 131 supported the Grand Canyon Escalade.
The Escalade bill’s first hearing is 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 26 in Monument Valley.
Navajo officials said on Friday a bill that seeks a $65 million loan of the tribe to start the Escalade resort may have a hearing later this month, and online comments that were missing have been found and resubmissions have been accepted.
Navajo tribal officials said on Wednesday they counted only one-eighth of the tens of thousands of comments filed online last week opposing the proposed Escalade development.
Now that Navajo Nation Council Delegate Ben Bennett, from Eastern Navajo, has introduced legislation supporting the proposed Grand Canyon Escalade, what is next?