Opinion

In the Navajo Times letter titled, “President disrespected by Council,” by Mervyn Tilden (Feb. 7, 2019), he reports on how some of the Navajo Nation Council delegates voted against a state of the nation address from the new president due to lateness.

For all of us who live in the Four Corners area, job security and future economic development are top-of-mind.

For the president and speaker not to address this issue, it’s telling people that code of conduct is not important.

They arrived on land (Kin Hozhoni) where once it was a commerce center, an intersection between many other groups and Chaco Canyon. The commerce center once used coal as a fuel source. There are signs of very ancient dugouts along canyon walls. They are no longer.

As NTEC positions itself in the energy markets, outside corporations fear the worst.