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Independent Diné Nation, 209–210, 215, 223
Long Walk (1864), 28, 64, 130–131
oil leases, 33
payments for water use, 53
relocation, 28–29, 36, 38–41, 59, 64, 82, 129–133, 204–206, 224–225, 227–228
reservation boundary issue, 27–29, 82, 87–91, 125, 224
reservation establishment, 65, 133–134
resistance, 32, 206, 209, 234
treaty, 133
tribal council, 33, 78–79, 215, 225, 228–229
uranium mining, 192, 196, 216
voting by, 21
water supply, 53–55
Navajo and Hopi Land Settlement Act, 28–29
Navajo aquifer, 53, 120
Navajo Campaign, 131
Navajo Country (map), 63, 65
Navajo Generating Station, 40, 52, 93, 126, 177, 203, 207
Navajo Mountain, 23, 38
Navajo Office of Economic Development, 227
Navajo Tribal Council, 78–79, 215, 225, 228–229
Nellis, Joe (war hero), 193
Nellis Air Force Base, 6, 7, 193–194, 197
Nephites, 104
Nevada Club, 52
Nevada Education Fund, 184
Nevada Gaming Commission, 181–182
Nevada Gaming Control Board, 181
Nevada Power, 57
Nevada Test and Training Range, 194
Nevada Test Site, 6, 160, 161, 194, 216
New Mexico Territory, 129
Newcomen, Thomas (steam engine inventor), 73–74
Newmont Mining, 202
Nixon, Richard M., 25, 202, 221
Northern Nevada Water Pipeline Project, 188
Nuclear power, 71, 194–197, 200–201
Nuclear testing, 160, 193, 195, 201
Nuclear waste disposal, 201
Obama, Barack, 156
O’Callaghan, Mike (governor), 181, 186
O’Harra, H. E. (Indian agent), 80
Oil, 192–193
Oil construction business, 191
Oil leases, 33
Oklahoma’s Indian Territory, 63
101 Club, 46
O’Neill, Tip (congressman), 117
Oraibi (Hopi village), 121–122, 124
Oregon Trail, 96–97
Organized crime, 15–18, 23, 45
Oriental Park Racetrack Casino, 9
Osmond, Donny (entertainer), 3
Osmond, Marie (entertainer), 3
Otis, Harrison (publisher), 165, 169
Overton, Nevada, 5, 166–168
Owens, Kit (public relations director), 56
Owens, Wayne (congressman), 28, 134, 227
Owens Valley, 7, 164–166, 184–187
Oxcart, 7, 197–199
Pacific Bridge, 146
Paiute Indians, 138–140, 222
Panitch, Mark (journalist), 127
Paradise, Nevada, 11
Park City Railroad, 86
Parker-Keam line, 134
Parlow, Anita (author), 83
Parrish, Lorraine “Rain” (Navajo social worker), 221
Peabody, Francis (coal company founder), 76–77
Peabody Coal
Black Mesa coal and, 29, 53, 56, 58
founding and early years of, 76–78
Hanson Ltd and, 229–233
Hopi-Navajo dispute pamphlet, 134
John Boyden and, 92
Kennecott Copper and, 86, 125–126, 202
political presence of, 203
purchase by Bechtel, 202–203
Sentry Royalty Company leases, 125
Peabody Holding, 202
Peaches, Daniel (Navajo legislator), 40, 235
Pearl Street Generating Station, 66
Perea, Gary (committee member), 185
Perlstein, Rick (author), 19
Phoenix
growth pattern of, 48
per person water consumption, 179
Valley National Bank of Phoenix, 15, 90, 116
water supply for, 177–179
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, 121
Pittman, Key (governor), 12
Plains Indians, 96–97
Playboy resort, 189
Plaza (casino), 237, 239
Pollution
from coal burning, 73
Grand Canyon smog, 56–57
in London, 73
from Mohave Generating Station, 56–58
particulate, 166
Polygamy, 93, 94, 97–98, 106–107, 109–110
Powder River Basin, 85
Powers, Francis Gary (U-2 pilot), 197
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 118
Prohibition, 150, 151
Prostitution, 150, 153, 190
Pumping station for Colorado River, 40–41
Putnam, Frederick (museum director), 103
Pyramid Lake, 222
The Quest (Yergin), 69–70
The Quiet Crisis (Udall), 115, 118
Rachel, Nevada, 199
Railroad
construction, 147–148, 153–154
Las Vegas and, 137, 139–140, 142–143
Railroad Pass, 6
Rainfall, annual in Las Vegas, 4, 5
Range war, 126–128, 203–204
Rare Metal (mining company), 216
Rayburn, Sam (congressman), 117–118
Reagan, Ronald, 25, 182, 204
Rehnquist, William (Supreme Court justice), 26
Reid, Harry (senator), 13, 180–182, 184, 186, 188, 239, 240
Reisner, Marc (author), 165, 209
Reservations
Executive Order Reservation (1882), 66, 84, 87, 89, 126–127, 134, 204
legal definition of, 59
mineral reserves beneath, 192, 204, 206, 225
Sioux Indian, 64, 121
Ribicoff, Abraham (senator), 196
Riverside hotel-casino, 52
Rocky Ridge School, 54
Roessel, Ruth (author), 130
Rogers, William P. (as US Attorney General), 91
Roman, James (author), 151
Romney, Miles (prominent Mormon), 109, 186
Romney, Mitt (Mormon presidential candidate), 109
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 145, 155, 158
Roosevelt, Theodore, 165, 169
Rosenzweig, Harry (jeweler/Goldwater fundraiser), 19, 20, 22
Rugs, Navajo, 30, 32
Salt Lake City, Mormon arrival in, 108
Salt River Project, 57, 178
Salton Sea, 168
San Fernando Valley, California, 165, 169
San Francisco, homeless population of, 241
Sandia National Laboratories, 7
Sands (casino), 13
Saudi Arabia, 192–193
Scavenger mine, 197
Schlosser, Eric (author), 195
Scrip (company paper), 154, 157
Second Mesa, 34
Sedway, Moe (mobster), 10–11, 13
Segerblom, Gene (assemblywoman), 181
Sekaquaptewa, Abbott (Hopi tribal chairman), 35, 81, 83, 112–113, 118, 126–128
Sekaquaptewa, Emory, Jr. (Hopi), 112–113, 119, 234
Sekaquaptewa, Emory, Sr. (Hopi), 80–81, 112, 122–124
Sekaquaptewa, Helen (Hopi), 111–114, 118–125
childhood of, 120, 122–124
family of, 118–119
Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa (Sekaquaptewa and Udall), 113–114
Seminoles, 97
Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, 15–18, 45
Sentry Royalty Company, 78, 125
Shea, Charlie (contractor), 145
Sheep reduction, 32, 33, 36, 39, 79, 226
Sheepherding, incompatibility with strip mining, 41
Sherman, William Tecumseh (general), 132–133
Shia, Thomas (bank official), 116
Shoshone Indians, 86–87
Shultz, George (Bechtel president/cabinet officer), 202–204
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br /> Sibley, Henry Hopkins (general), 129
Sidney, Ivan (Hopi chairman), 206
Siegel, Ben “Bugsy” (gangster)
Flamingo and, 8, 9, 11, 15
murder of, 11, 15
Sierra Club, 176–177, 216
Sinatra, Frank (entertainer), 13, 181–182
Sioux Indians, 64, 120–121
Sitting Bull (Sioux chief), 120–121
Six Companies, 145–146, 149, 153–157, 191
Slender, Desbah (Navajo), 219
Smith, Joseph (Mormon leader), 95, 97–101, 105–107
Smith, Katherine (Navajo activist), 209
Smith, Margaret Chase (senator), 23
Smith, William (brother of Joseph Smith), 106
Smith, William French (as US attorney general), 182
Smog
in Grand Canyon, 56–57
in London, 73, 75
Snake Valley, Nevada, 185
Southern California Edison, 47, 57, 58
Southern California Institute for Natural Resources, 34
Southern Indian Development Institute, 22
Southern Nevada Water Authority, 7, 164, 183–185, 187, 239
Spraker, Anne (librarian), 57
Spring Valley, Nevada, 184–185
Springs, of Las Vegas area, 139–140
Springs Preserve Park, 141
Spy planes, 7, 197–199
Squires, Pop (editor), 170
St. George, Nevada, 186
Standard Oil of California, 33, 87, 191–192
Stanton, Edwin (secretary of war), 132
Stardust casino-resort, 153
Steam engine, 73–74
Steam shovel, 148
Steck, Michael (Indian superintendent 1860s), 132
Steel smelting, 76
Stegner, Wallace (author), 207, 242
Steiger, Sam (congressman), 37, 227
Stephen, A. M. (surveyor), 65
Stewart, Helen (rancher), 137–139, 141
Stone, I. F. (journalist), 194–195
Stone and Webster (contractor), 196
Stralla, Anthony. See Cornero, Tony
Stralla, Frank and Louis (casino owners), 151–153
Strategic Air Command, 195
Stratosphere (casino), 190
Strip mining, coal, 29, 40–41, 49, 51, 58, 119, 204, 229–231–232
Strontium 90, 201
Stupak, Nevada (Las Vegas resident), 190
Suicide, 241
Sulfates, 37, 41
Sulfur, in coal, 72, 73
Summerlin, Nevada, 14, 15, 48, 183
Sumner, Charles (senator), 131–132
Sun City, 15
Sustainability, 3, 4
Talasnimka (wife of Chief Toova), 111, 113
Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, 222
Tarantino, Frederick (president of Bechtel Nevada), 161
Taxes, in Nevada, 240–241
Tennessee Valley Authority, 202
Territory of Arizona (map), 63, 65
Third Mesa, 111, 124
Tiffany, Louis (designer), 62
Tithing, 107
To Lead and to Serve (Green), 121
Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range, 7
Tonopah Test Range, 7
Toova (Hopi Chief), 111, 113
Trading post
Dinnebito Trading Post, 30–33
functions of, 32–33
Treasure Island (casino), 163, 190
Treaties, 133, 220
Truman, Harry S., 144
Tuba City, Arizona, 108, 110, 111, 214–216
Tucson
per person water consumption, 179
water supply for, 177–179
Twain, Mark (author), 141
U-2 planes, 7, 197, 199
Udall, Levi (judge), 116–117
Udall, Louise (author), 114, 119–120
Udall, Morris (congressman), 114, 116–117, 228
Udall, Nicholas (mayor), 19, 117
Udall, Stewart (secretary of interior), 90–91, 95, 114–119, 177, 196, 206
UFOs, 197–199
Union Pacific Railroad, 169
United Nations, 210, 215, 234
United Order, 97, 107
Upper Basin, 170
Uranium, 192, 196, 216
US Fish and Wildlife Service, 187
Utah Construction, 143–145
Utah International, 51, 207
Utah Territory, 107, 109–110
Ute Indians, 78, 82–83, 87, 89–90
Valley National Bank of Phoenix, 15, 90, 116
Valley of Fire State Park, 168
Venetian, 163, 189
Venturi, Robert (architect/author), 243
Vietnam War, 200, 207
Vishnu Schist, 57
Volstead Act, 150
Voting, by Native Americans, 21, 22–23, 30–31
Walker, Lucy (wife of Joseph Smith), 99
Warren, Earl (Supreme Court justice), 10
Warren Construction, 146
Water
for coal-slurry pipeline, 34–35, 37, 53–55
Colorado River Compact, 143
contamination from coal mining, 29, 37, 41
desalinization, 46, 179
displays in Las Vegas, 163
electricity for pumping of, 70
pumped by steam engines, 73–74
units of measurement for, 143
Water level
groundwater and coal-slurry pipeline, 53–55
of Lake Mead, 5, 7, 167–168, 171–175, 187–188, 238–239
Water supply
for Black Mesa, 37
for Hopi villages, 36, 53–55, 79
for Las Vegas, 6–7, 139, 164, 183–188, 238–239
for Los Angeles, 164–166, 169, 171, 184
Water treatment plants, 183
Waterwheel, 73
Watkins, Arthur (Utah senator), 88–89, 222
Watt, James (steam engine inventor), 74
Wattis, Edmund “E. O.” (construction company owner), 143–146, 191
Wattis, William “W. H.” (construction company owner), 143–146, 154–155, 191
Weavers for Life and Land, 32, 233
Webb, Del (contractor/casino owner)
at Desert Inn opening, 12
Flamingo and, 15
J. Edgar Hoover and, 13
retirement communities, 15, 21, 26, 48
Western Supply and Transmission, 127, 203, 207
Wetherill, John (Indian trader), 22
White House, 62
White Pine County Land Bill, 186
Whitesinger, Pauline (Navajo activist), 209
Wiley, Peter (author), 207–208
Wilkerson, Billy (publisher), 10–11
Wilkinson, Ernest (lawyer), 78, 88–90, 111–112
Williams Technologies, 49, 202
Wilson, Edmund (author), 156
Wilson, Thomas (Las Vegas resident), 152
Winnebago tribe, 63
Wister, Owen (author), 24
Woods, Tiger (professional golfer), 190
Wounded Knee Massacre, 121
Wright, Howard (professor), 34–35
Wynn, Steve (casino mogul)
Desert Inn and, 14
Lake Como (Bellagio), 5, 163
in Laughlin, Nevada, 52
Massachusetts casino, 243
resorts, 14, 189–190
XS (nightclub), 190
Yergin, Daniel (author), 69–70
Yokeoma (Hopi chief), 124
Young, Brigham (Mormon leader), 66, 86, 100, 107–110, 140, 186
Yucca Mountain, 160–161, 201
Zah, Peterson (Navajo chairman), 206, 225, 228
Zappos (online retailer), 238
KIM INDRESANO
JUDITH NIES is the award-winning author of three nonfiction books: The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s, Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition, and Native American History: A Chronology, which won the Phi Alpha Theta prize in i
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