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Navajo leaders divided on Grand Canyon development plan
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Aug 1, 2014
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Navajo leaders divided on Grand Canyon development plan
Developers are negotiating with the Navajo Nation to build a $150 million tourist destination on the eastern edge of the Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon, UNITED STATES: View of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 05 April 2007. The Canyon, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, is about 277 miles long (445.7kms), ranges in width from 0.25 to 15 miles (0.4-24kms), and attains a depth of more than a mile (more than 1.6kms). Nearly two billion years of the Earth's history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of sediment as the Colorado Plateaus have uplifted. AFP PHOTO/Gabriel BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)
Grand Canyon, UNITED STATES: View of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 05 April 2007. The Canyon, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, is about 277 miles long (445.7kms), ranges in width from 0.25 to 15 miles (0.4-24kms), and attains a depth of more than a mile (more than 1.6kms). Nearly two billion years of the Earth's history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of sediment as the Colorado Plateaus have uplifted. AFP PHOTO/Gabriel BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Developers are negotiating with the Navajo Nation to build a $150 million tourist destination on the eastern edge of the Grand Canyon.

Developers are negotiating with the Navajo Nation to build a $150 million tourist destination on the eastern edge of the Grand Canyon. But Navajo leaders are divided over whether to allow desperately needed economic development on a place many believe to be sacred.

Reporter Laurel Morales has the second in her series.