Breaking the Iron Bonds Indian Control of Energy Development

Name: Breaking the Iron Bonds Indian Control of Energy Development
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ISBN: 9780700605187

ISBN-10: 0700605185

ISBN-13: 9780700605187

Edition: 1990

Authors: Marjane Ambler

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It is, perhaps, not well known that Indian people own about one-third of the country's western coal and uranium resources, as well as vast quantities of oil and natural gas. In the early 1960s, lurid news accounts about the Black Mesa strip mine in Arizona and the manipulation of the Navajos and Hopis shocked the American public, Indian and non-Indian alike. The mine became a symbol of the exploitation of Indian people and Indian resources to satisfy the nation's energy demands. In this book, Marjane Ambler explores the strides that both tribes and individual Indian mineral owners have made since that time, gaining crucial control over oil, gas, coal, and uranium development on their lands.…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 2/26/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables


List of Acronyms


Preface



Out of the Mainstream: The Importance of the Reservation



The Rubber-Stamp Era: Early History of Indian Mineral Leasing



Early Horse Trading: Tribes Begin Setting the Terms



Indian OPEC? The Council of Energy Resource Tribes



Who's Minding the Store? Indian Royalty Management



The Forgotten People: Indian Allottees



After the Contract Is Signed: The Tribe as Regulator



No Reservation Is an Island: Water and Off-Reservation Energy Development



Into the Boss's Seat: The Tribe as Developer


Appendixes



Indian Land and Mineral Timeline



Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) Reservations, 1988



Charles Lipton's Eighteen Points



Suggestions for Industry


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index