Comments about ‘Bennett wants Navajos to manage own royalties’

I believe that San Juan county made up by a big number of navajos is regarded as the poorest Co in the State. Why is that? Let them manage their own royalties is the right thing to do and should have been done from the get-go.

Fairness requires equal taxation on the reservation.

They are their own nation, let them manage their own money. Force Utah to account for all money brought in to date. If it were anyone else it would have been done already with fewer excuses.

Right. Because look how well they take care of their own (housing, clean water, electricity...) Yep, those selfish, lying, Navajo leaders would handle those royalties just as well as they have managed every other bit of money they've received.

stewardship is a word and that is all!! is it any wonder the same attitude of the grave robbers prevailed in this same area of robbing the trust fund.I say cut all Indian moneys if you want fair taxation and then see who really suffers as so very few work in the areas of where the money goes. Then we will see who gets lunchie!!Period.Many of the elders have died in squallor while some do-gooder made off with the goods. The history of this county reads like a novel and the page needs to be turned!

I taught at Navajo Mountain High School for a year - taught a their high school. Sub-standard housing to us may well be traditional housing to them. It is this lack of understanding on our part that makes us poor stewards of their monies.

Let's get our facts straight. Mormons migrated to present day Utah including the traditional homelands of the Ute, Goshutes, Shoshoni, Navajo and Paiute. Did the Mormons pay for the land? NO. Talk about a free lunch and free land. To this day, they have never paid a cent to the Indians for this land.

Utah advocated for the establishment of Lake Powell which included lands occupied by the Navajo. The Navajos willing agreed to this project wherein they agreed to relinquish their lands, including the present day City of Page AZ, and some say the centerline of the Colorado River. In exchange they were able to reclaim lands which they never formally abandoned but were claimed by the US. It included the minerals, gas and oil, from which the proceeds forms the corpus of this trust fund.

These are not Utah or US lands but Navajo lands. The State of Utah agreed to serve as trustee over these monies but have resorted to stealing, cheating, converting, and squander. To this day, millions are unaccounted for and they State seeks to be relinquished as trustee with being accountable. How’s them apples for the Truth.