Aneth News

The move came after the chapter voted 57-30 to reject a resolution proposed by Mark Maryboy to appoint two members to the board of the newly formed Utah Dineh Corp., which Maryboy is pushing to replace the state of Utah as the next trustee of the $30 million fund.

Denton Ben of the Descendants of K'aayelii, an organization that maintains residents of the Aneth Extension should get a bigger piece of the trust fund pie, said he was transported to the Shiprock jail by Navajo Nation police after he tried to defend his cousin and uncle, who were escorted out of the meeting for being argumentative.

For 76 years, the Navajo tribe technically has been receiving oil and gas royalties - but the state of Utah has been in charge of the Navajo Trust Fund created by them.

Medicine man David Filfred, who lives on the Navajo Reservation near Aneth, Utah, believes that ancient Indian artifacts should be left alone not only out of respect for the dead but for one's health.

A team of geneticists at the University of Colorado in Boulder this year compared 600,000 genetic markers to prove that a pile of bones found in a small crevice near Comb Ridge in southeast Utah belonged to artist and romantic vagabond Everett Ruess.

Exploring the Southwest on foot and with burros in the early 1930s, 20-year-old vagabond artist Everett Ruess wrote, "I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness .

An asbestos cleanup at the old Aneth Gas Plant has southeastern Utah Navajos worried and angry at their tribal government.