SAME AS IT EVER WAS

The Chuck-A-Rama anthropologist in me believes denigration of working-class culture masked by NIMBYistic environmentalism, appropriation of the Navajo Way by even marginally affluent Americans, and Navajo political opportunists rendered untouchable by invoking “sovereignty” and playing the race card lie at the core of the rift in San Juan County, Utah — a snapshot of the social, political and economic dynamic transforming the best of the West.