Plans for GC development including IMAX theater

It's certainly going to be a fight, while the Navajo council supports the plan, a largish (vocal) part of the tribe doesn't.

The Hopi also don't. If you have followed the long history of the Hopi and Navajo "disagreeing" over their "ancestral" lands this will be just the latest phase.

While the Navajo creation story has them springing from this area, their language is so closely related to Northern Athabaska's tribes (northern Canada) they can converse. In fact only the Navajo and Apache (in the southern US) speak this language group.

I can understand the need for jobs. 150 years ago the US government agreed to "support" (read a live time of welfare) the Indians if they would move to the reservations. A quick visit to any reservation will show what a lifetime without jobs has left the Indians.

This in NOT on the National Park land. It is on their land (read reservation or State). They could build a Las Vegas style hotel. It is not like one person wanted to build the theater. It is a Tribe (read the voters of the State of NY) voting to build this building in their "state".

It is certainly their right to build this complex. And I am all for job creation. But that doesn't mean I have to like it. I saw what some of their development looks like at Monument Valley.

With some good planning and tasteful design it could be a win-win for everyone.