Talk:Utah Dineh Corporation Inc

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2010 comments[edit]

The tone of this article needs a bunch of PoV cleanup, especially in the last section: "For far too long the Utah Navajos have been poorly served by a paternalistic system that is often abused. According to the opinion of Senator Bennter, The San Juan County Navajos are capable of acting in the collective good for today’s and future generations of their people." The citation afterwards leads to http://navajotimes.com/news/2009/0209/021209trustfund.php and the paragraph in question is a clear summary of that article, but it's not clear it's a summary and the position isn't attributed in-text.

There are a few other cases throughout the article where the position of sources are summaried without it being clear that it's a summary of the source's position rather than the encyclopedia's position, too. I think most of them can be fixed by an in-text attribution making it clear that it's the position of authorities on the subject, rather than the position of the encyclopedia itself. --rahaeli (talk) 04:34, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article leaves out so much[edit]

Senate Bill 1690[edit]

I can not find any record that Senate bill 1680 introduced in the 2009-2010 111st session of Congress ever made it out of committee. ^[1]

Given what Senator Bennett testified in 2009 ^[2], in 1933 the Federal government authorized the Utah State Legislature to set up a trust to administer royalties from the Aneth Extension at the time of the land exchange in 1933. Utah did not renew its agreement to administrator trust and it expired in December 2009. One Mr. Skinner suggested the formation of the Utah Deneh Corp to administer the royalties that previously went to the State of Utah trustee. Senate Bill 1690 purpose was to confirm Mr. Skinner's proposal. Rcollman (talk) 13:28, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Utah HistoryToGo version of History[edit]

The question for me is who is controlling the royalties from the Aneth Extention. Did Utah Deneh Corp become the trustee for the royalties and if so how?

It is possible that the oil companies went to the Navajo Tribe and Utah (as different entities, or was Utah acting on behalf of Navajo) and negotiated leases and drilled their first well in Feb 1956. Did Utah establish a 3 member commission to return the royalty revenues to the Navajo. Did the amount of royalties become so large and distribution such a burden that the Utah Navajo Development Council was created in 1971 to take over this task. ^[3]

Navajo Nation Oil and Gas and Utah Debeh Corp relationship[edit]

What about Navajo Nation Oil & Gas Company which apparentlyhas a partnership with Resolute Energy that started purchasing Aneth field wells in 2004? ^[4]

I got to this page from the Navajo Nation page, section on oil. Lots of politics, not sure I want to edit anything here.Rcollman (talk) 13:28, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Aneth Chapter 17 Feb 2013 Item 7 unofficial discussion and Senate hearing 2013[edit]

I found the unofficial Aneth Chapter minutes to be very interesting. The point of discussion was whether to endorse Senate Bill 1327 introduced by Senator Hatch in 2013. It died in committee. Evidently it's intent was to

"Directs Utah, by March 31, 2012, to transfer to the Utah Dineh Corporation: (1) all funds, assets, and real property held in trust for the San Juan Navajo Indians pursuant to the Act of March 1, 1933; and (2) all outstanding contracts and obligations entered into by Utah acting as trustee on behalf of the San Juan Navajo Indians in accordance with such Act." ^[5] It was refered to the Committee on Indian Affairs. The hearing minutes include testomony from the VP of the Navajo Nation and seemed to echo the Aneth Chapter unofficial minutes. ^[6]. Rcollman (talk) 13:54, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/1690/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs Actions taken by S. 1690
^ https://www.indian.senate.gov/sites/default/files/upload/files/BENNETTstatement.pdf Assume this document is a valid transcript
^ http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/anethoilfield.html Aneth oil field history, sort of
^ http://nnogc.com/about-us.html
^ https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1327 Summary of S 1327
^ https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112shrg74443/pdf/CHRG-112shrg74443.pdf Minutes of Indian Affairs committee

[1] ttps://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/1690/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs Actions taken by S. 1690

[2] ttps://www.indian.senate.gov/sites/default/files/upload/files/BENNETTstatement.pdf Assume this document is a valid transcript

[3] ttp://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/anethoilfield.html Aneth oil field history, sort of

[4] ttp://nnogc.com/about-us.html

[5] ttps://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1327 Summary of S 1327

[6] ttps://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112shrg74443/pdf/CHRG-112shrg74443.pdf Minutes of Indian Affairs committee

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