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8 - Locally Grounded Development

from Part III - Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2021

Ezra Rosser
Affiliation:
American University, Washington DC
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This chapter focuses on how governance changes and allowance for greater local autonomy might create space for economic development. The Navajo Nation has 110 chapters, each with a separate governance role and each with unique challenges. Just as American politicians routinely advocate for local control under the banner of federalism, so too many Diné feel that the tribe would be better with some form of Navajo federalism. Chapter 8 looks at whether rebalancing the division of authority between the centralized bureaucracy in Window Rock and local chapter houses could help cut through the red tape that currently undermines efforts to build community at the local level.

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A Nation Within
Navajo Land and Economic Development
, pp. 127 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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