Navajo chapters dispute ownership issues over casinos

 

November 23

In Window Rock, Arizona, council delegates of the Navajo tribe chapters that are trying to open casinos for business are fighting allegations that the Navajo Nation itself would own the casinos instead of the actual chapters that bring them to life.

Delegates from the To'Hajiilee, Shiprock and Hogback chapters themselves fought back against comments that were made by tribal controller Mark Grant, Chief Legislative Counsel Ray Etcitty and Danielle Her Many Horses from the justice division, regarding the topic of ownership. Thay made comments about the Navaho Nation taking actual ownership.

During the session that lasted two days for study, delegates that were in attendance were in a constant form of disagreement of the Navaho Nation's explanation of the term "Navajo Nation"

The chapters that are vying and pulling for the casinos are the To'Hajiilee, located some 25 miles west of Albuquerque, the Manuelito, which is located near Gallup, New Mexico, the Hogback and the Shiprock, which is located to the west of Farmington, the Nahata Dziil, located on Interstate 40 between Gallup, New Mexico and Holbrook, Arizona, and the Leupp, whose proposed casino would be right outside the Flagstaff area.