Talk:Navajo Livestock Reduction

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This page needs work but it is an important subject. It is about a significant event which had a serious social and economic impact upon the Navajo and the South West by the federal government. There were reasons for the government's actions that the Navajo and others did not agree with. Good addition to wikipedia. I will pull out Compiled (1974). in Roessel, Ruth: Navajo Livestock Reduction: A National Disgrace. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press. ISBN 0-912586-18-4.  and some other references I have. --Rcollman 11:10, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] To do on this page

Please jump in with some edits here.

• The references are great but they need to be cited in the article. For example, which idea used page 21 of "A National Disgrace". Otherwise the references just clutter things, perhaps belong on the Navajo People page.
• We need more dates which I will try to find.
• While the Navajo been raising livestock for 100s of years, they did not go from 15,000 to 500,000 in 10 years.
• I think the Livestock reduction took place around the time of the dust bowl. Federal grazing permits on federal land were also impacted?

Again, nice page.--Rcollman 12:07, 8 June 2007 (UTC)