Navajo seeks congressional approval to issue mineral leases

By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau

WINDOW ROCK — All it took was Delegate Leonard Tsosie playing the “sovereignty” card to trump a pair of objections by Attorney General Harrison Tsosie and Minerals Department Director Akhtar Zaman, and win Navajo Nation Council support of a bill that would give Navajo the power to authorize mineral leases without federal approval.

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