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INDEX
Abourezk, James (senator), 29
About a Mountain (D’Agata), 174
Adelson, Sheldon (casino owner), 190
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 216–218
Alcatraz, occupation of, 28, 220–222
Alcohol, in Las Vegas, 150–151
Alkali soil, 95–96, 140
Allotment Acts, 121
Alta California, 1–7, 96–97, 108
Amax Metals, 202
Ambler, Marjane (writer), 53, 192
American Gaming Association, 241
Anasazi, 58, 166–167, 211, 213, 231
Annals of the Former World (McPhee), 198
Anthracite, 76
Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), 192
Area 2, 7, 194
Area 51, 7, 194, 197–200
Area 52, 7
Arthur, Chester (US president), 61–67
Ashke, Violet (Navajo activist), 28–30, 36–37
Atawovi (Hopi village), 35
Atkinson, Hawley (Relocation Commission chairman), 204
Atomic blasts, viewing of, 6
Atomic Energy Commission, 193, 195–196, 216
Atomic Test Site, 160, 19
3, 195
Atomic Testing Museum, 142, 160, 195, 200
Baker, Dean (rancher), 185
Baker, Kenny (Las Vegas resident), 190
Bally’s, 52, 189
Batista, Fulgencio (Cuban president), 10
Bechtel, Steven, Jr. (company president), 200–201, 204, 206, 208
Bechtel, Steven, Sr. (company president), 155, 200
Bechtel, Warren (company president), 143, 144, 146, 153, 155–156, 191
Bechtel China, 42
Bechtel Corporation. See also specific projects
Central Arizona Project, 177–179, 187, 203
coal-slurry pipeline, 42, 48–50, 56
founding of, 147
generation station construction, 42, 48, 50–52
George Shultz and, 202–204
Hoover Dam project, 143, 209
labor issues, 192
military construction projects, 159–160, 192–194, 200
nuclear power division, 196–197, 200–201
political influence of, 203–204, 208, 240
power plant construction, 203, 207
Yucca Mountain Project, 160–161, 201
Bechtel-McCone, 191
Bechtel-Nevada, 195–196, 201
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Perlstein), 19
Belgian Congo, 62–63
Bellagio, 163
Benally, Leonard (Navajo activist), 233
BIA. See Bureau of Indian Affairs
Big Mountain, Arizona, 32, 38–40, 211
Big Water, Utah, 94–95
Bimson, Walter (bank president), 116
Bin Laden, Mohammed (contractor), 193
Binion, Benny (casino owner), 6
Bituminous coal, 76
Black Hills of South Dakota, 64
Black Mesa, Arizona, 27–42
coal, 27–29, 37, 40–42, 49, 51, 78, 84, 114–115, 126, 177, 224
coal-slurry pipeline, 34–35, 37, 42, 49–50, 53–56, 203, 207
maps of (1879), 63, 65
topography of, 32, 34, 79
Black Mesa Environmental Impact Statement, 53
Black Mesa Water Coalition, 54
Black Mesa Water Trust, 54
Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land, 32, 233
Blackgoat, Roberta (Navajo activist)
author’s visits with, 37–38, 211–216, 222–225
awards, 235
at boarding school, 123, 222–223
children of, 214–215
death of, 233–234
at Goldwater’s visit to Big Mountain, 40
at Hanson Ltd meeting (1996), 231–233
at Harvard, 235
hauling of drinking water, 54
hogan of, 213
influence of Alcatraz occupation on, 221
meeting with Goldwater, 28–30, 36–38
personal attributes of, 211, 219, 234
sheepherding camp, 33, 34, 211–214, 218, 224
weaving by, 37–38
welfare case and hearing, 217–219
Blackgoat, Vicky (Navajo), 31–34, 54, 211–215, 217, 223–224
Blackjack, 237–238, 239–240, 242
Blair, James (trading post owner), 31–32
Block 16, 152–153
Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth Century America (Fox), 13
Blue, Martha (lawyer), 35, 216–219
Blue Lake, 222
Boarding school, 22, 120–124, 222–223
Boats, gambling, 10
Boeing Corporation, 202
Bolles, Don (investigative reporter), 229
Bonanno, Joe (gangster), 15
Book of Mormon, 96, 100–102, 104–105, 112
Bosque Redondo, 64, 130–131, 133
Boulder Dam (Grey), 156
Boulder Dam Project Act, 171
Bowman Dam, 148
Boyden, John (lawyer), 78–92
ambition of, 84–85
Barry Goldwater and, 88–91
as coal-company attorney, 125–126
as cowboy lawyer, 59
early life of, 85–87
Hopi and, 42, 69, 79–84, 88–91, 119–120
Hopi Land Settlement Act, 126
Mormon faith, 84, 92
Navajo Tribal Council and, 78–79
oral contract with Hopi, 81
Ute Indians and, 78, 82–83, 89–90
Boyle, Danny (producer), 71
Brackenridge, Henry (attorney), 101, 102
Breaking the Iron Bonds: Indian Control of Energy Development (Ambler), 53, 192
Brigham Young University, 111–112
Bringing Down the House (movie), 240
British Petroleum (BP), 70
Brodie, Fawn (historian/author), 100
Brook, Edward (senator), 24
Brower, David (Sierra Club head), 176
Brown, Denise Scott (architect/author), 243
Brown and Root (Texas construction company), 200
Bullhead City, 46–47, 51, 56
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
accountability of, 220
attorney approval by, 83
dealings with Hopi, 79–80
lease approval, 226
licensing of Indian traders, 21
Navajo Tribal Council and, 33
Bureau of Land Management, 184, 186–187, 193
Bureau of Reclamation, 95, 240
Bushman, Virgil and Ruth (missionaries), 111–112
Cadillac Desert (Reisner), 165, 209
Caesars Palace (casino), 3
Cafe Trocadero, 10, 11
Cahlan, John (Las Vegas resident), 151–153
Cahokia, 102–103
Cal-Neva Lodge, 13
California Institute of Technology, 194
Canyon de Chelly, 130, 132–133
CAP. See Central Arizona Project
Carbon monoxide poisoning, 155
Carlton, James (general), 129–132
Carpet joints, 9
Carson, Kit (frontiersman), 28, 64, 129–132
Carter, Jimmy, 71
Casinos, of Laughlin, Nevada, 52
Catholic Church, 72
Central Arizona Project, 126, 177–179, 187, 203–204
Central Artery Project, 187
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 7, 193, 194, 197–198
CERT (Council of Energy Resource Tribes), 225–226
Chandler, Harry (publisher), 165
Chasinghorse, Joseph (Sioux activist), 233
Cheney, Dick, 200
Cherokee, 97, 221
Chicago Edison, 77
Chickasaw, 97
Chinatown (movie), 164–165
Choctaw, 97
Chillicothe, 101
Church of England, 72
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Mormons
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency
Circus Circus (casino), 190
Ciro’s, 10, 11
Cirque de Soleil, 163, 188
City Center, 189
Civilization and Assimilation policy, 121
Clark, Wilbur (casino owner), 12, 15–16
Clark, William (senator), 137, 139–142
Clean Air Act, 57
Clemmer, Richard (anthropologist), 120
Cleveland Mob, 10, 12
Climate change, 73, 175–176, 180, 209, 216, 232, 235
Coal
bituminous, 76
Black Mesa and, 27–29, 37, 40–42, 49, 51, 84, 114–115, 126, 177, 224
“clean coal,” 50, 58
in Coalville, Utah, 86
current use in United States, 69–70
electricity from, 47, 66–67, 70, 76–77, 202
for generating stations, 47–51
history of, 71–76
industry relationship with workers, 77
railroad delivery of, 48–49
reserves, 70, 76, 84, 202
for steam engine, 73–74
strip mining, 2
9, 40–41, 49, 51, 58, 119, 204, 229, 231–232
Coal: A Human History (Freese), 71
Coal leases, 114–115, 119, 125
Coal mining
in England, 71–73
Peabody Coal and, 76–78
strip mining, 29, 40–41, 49, 51, 58, 119, 204, 229, 231–232
Coal-slurry pipeline, 34–35, 37, 42, 47–50, 53–56, 203, 207, 231, 234
Coalville, Utah, 84–87
Cohen, Felix (solicitor), 21, 87–88, 90
Collier, John (Native American advocate), 39, 79, 80
Colorado Belle, 51
Colorado Compact, 170
Colorado River. See also Lake Mead
apportionment of waters, 169–171, 175
decrease flow of, 175, 176, 179–180, 240
delta, 46
flooding by, 168–169
Glen Canyon Dam, 93
sediment carried by, 79
water from, 46
Colorado River Compact, 143
Colton, Harold (museum director), 79–80
Comanche Indians, 131
Command and Control (Schlosser), 195
Commission on Indigenous People, 210, 234
Competency commissions, 221
The Condition of the Working Class in England (Engels), 75
Conkling, Roscoe (senator), 61–62
Connelly, Henry (territorial governor), 129
Coosa kingdom, 102–103
Cornero, Tony (bootlegger and casino operator), 147, 150–153, 191
Coronado Generating Station, 52, 203, 207
Cotton, 96–97
Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), 225–226
Counting cards, 239, 242
Cowboy lawyers, 59
Cowdray, Oliver (school teacher), 105
Cranston, Alan (senator), 206
Creech Air Force Base, 7
Creek Indians, 63, 97
Crime Commission. See Senate Special Commitee
Crowe, Frank (dam builder), 144, 146, 148, 154–155, 158
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Deloria), 222
D’Agata, John (author), 174
Dalitz, Moe (casino owner), 12, 14–17, 45, 191
Davis, Arthur Powell (head of Reclamation Bureau), 149, 170
Davis, Ken (Atomic Energy Commission director), 196, 204
Dawes, Henry (senator), 121
Deal, Percy (member Navajo Land Dispute Commission), 39–40
DeBuys, William (author), 180
DeConcini, Dennis (senator), 205–206, 214, 228
Deffeyes, Ken (geologist), 197–198
Deloria, Vine (activist/author), 37, 222
Denton, Sally (author), 8, 16
Department of Energy, US, 6
Desalinization, 46, 179