I am standing on top of First Mesa on the Hopi Indian Reservation ... threaded with power lines carrying coal-fired energy for the neon lights and leaping water fountains of Las Vegas.

It received a majority of its coal from Peabody Energy's Kayenta Coal Mine. Kayenta Mine, located on Nation land, and received some of its coal from a “joint use area” shared with Hopi.

is still reeling from that," said Hopi legal counsel Scott Canty ... "They just want any use of coal stopped. However, coal is the Navajo Nation's most plentiful resource, and our prosperity ...

The earliest miners in the area were the Hopi, who mined 100,000 tons of coal between 1,300 and 1,600 A.D. for firing pottery and heating ... of the San Carlos Indian Reservation.

Many artists still follow those customs, but others use ... pottery, and it’s well known for offering lower prices on many objects than you’ll find at Hopi and Navajo reservations. Indian ...

The coal from Black Mesa, a mountainous area straddling Navajo and Hopi land in the northeast corner ... Many also make use of the water depot at the mine, which allows them to fill cisterns ...

It appears the tribe will need to continue to use reserves in future budgets. But leaders said the tribe must try to replace its coal revenue ... to tax non-Indians conducting business ...

The massive coal plant and its nearby mine were the linchpin of the Navajo and Hopi economies for nearly ... the Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs.

Renewable energy projects on Navajo Nation that repurpose the use of the ... the Navajo and Hopi? Optimistically, a successful and just transition in the four-corners will pave the way for coal ...

I don't think they would be able to, you know, use a chainsaw. SEVIGNY: There isn't a single organized effort to transition away from coal on the Hopi Nation, which leaves nonprofits to fill in ...

Little points to a rock formation named for the reddish dirt that Navajos use to dye wool for ... including hundreds of mostly Native American workers who mined the coal on tribal land, loaded ...