Business

The National Indian Gaming Commission released its figures for 2018, which show that Indian gaming nationwide brought in a total of $33.7 billion, an increase of 4.1 percent over the previous year.

Nicole Kee McCarty was one of 15 certified operations specialists who ran the 2,250-megawatt Navajo Generating Station. Now, she is being retrained to be an information technology business analyst at Salt River Project in Phoenix.

There are Navajo doctors, lawyers, architects and engineers. Not plenty, certainly, not enough, perhaps, but they are there. One thing Shannah Smith has yet to meet is a Navajo real estate agent.

For the past several years, Navajo gaming officials have been talking about building a travel center at Twin Arrows Navajo Resort and Casino. That dream will happen.

When it comes to raising livestock, the Navajos have long been victims of their own success.