Cleaning up the Skyline
The bucket operator sticks his head out of the window while working at the Skyline Mine Wednesday. The bucket hauls uranium contaminated soil back to the top of Olijato Mesa from the bottom. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau

MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah — In 1951, the Navajo Tribal Council sent a proposal to Washington that would permit Navajos to lease their lands to whites and also make it easier for them to obtain prospecting permits.

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