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  • 8 - Locally Grounded Development

  • from Part III - Future
  • Ezra Rosser, American University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    A Nation Within
    Published online:
    24 September 2021
    Print publication:
    07 October 2021, pp 127-140

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on how governance changes and allowance for greater local autonomy might create space for economic development. The Navajo Nation has 110 chapters, each with a separate governance role and each with unique challenges. Just as American politicians routinely advocate for local control under the banner of federalism, so too many Diné feel that the tribe would be better with some form of Navajo federalism. Chapter 8 looks at whether rebalancing the division of authority between the centralized bureaucracy in Window Rock and local chapter houses could help cut through the red tape that currently undermines efforts to build community at the local level.