newsreview.com
31 July 2009
Last week, the
Navajo National Council made a decision that will lead its members
back to the earth-friendly ways of its ancestors. The council
enacted the Navajo Green Economy Commission, which will devote
money to creating green jobs.
“We’re encouraging
our people to come back and create weavers’ co-ops and farmers’
markets and revitalize our agriculture,” Nikke Alex, who organizes
young people for the Navajo Green Jobs Coalition, told the Los
Angeles Times.
The initiative
might also have the effect of keeping Navajo youth near the
reservation—the largest in the United States, occupying 26,000
square miles in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah—rather than moving to
big cities after graduating high school.
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