Healing the Navajo Nation – The government delivers long awaited compensation
Healing comes in many ways and sometimes after very long periods. But this long awaited compensation goes some way towards healing the Navajo Nation.
On Friday September 26th in Window Rock, Arizona, leaders of the Navajo Nation and the US Government will sign a settlement that compensates the Navajo Nation for the federal government’s mishandling of their land during the past 60 years. This 
will be the largest ever settlement distributed by the US Government to a Native American tribe.
From 1946 – 2012, the US Government held in trust some 14 million acres of Navajo land from which it extracted coal, gas, uranium and oil in what has been deemed an ‘irresponsible manner.’ This payment will settle the lawsuit filed by the Navajo Nation in 2006 that the US government did not negotiate appropriate deals with the entities mining resources from their land, nor did they properly reimburse the tribe for the value of the resources extracted from the land, and they also did not adequately invest the earnings on the tribe’s behalf. I hope it helps heal in ways we cannot yet even comprehend:http://collectivelyconscious.net/articles/navajo-nation-to-receive-554-million-from-us-government-in-record-settlement/