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Sun Oct 2, 2016, 05:29 PM Oct 2016

Grand Canyon tram proposal sparks ire, awe from Navajo Nation to Germany

As a child, Renae Yellowhorse chased birds through the sagebrush on the Navajo reservation along the edge of the Grand Canyon.

She remembers her great-grandmother talking reverently about the canyon. Yellowhorse considers the confluence of two rivers that run through the Grand Canyon as sacred space, where a storied past needs to be preserved for the future.

Larry Hanks lives in Cedar Ridge, where he cooks with a wood-burning stove, doesn’t have running water, and uses a propane lamp for light. He sees a future where a proposed tourist development, Grand Canyon Escalade, could bring thousands of jobs to this remote, economically impoverished corner of the reservation.

Scottsdale-based Confluence Partners, LLC wants to build a restaurant, hotels and an RV park on the rim of the canyon, along with a tram that could carry 10,000 passengers per day.

Read more: http://tucson.com/business/tucson/grand-canyon-tram-proposal-sparks-ire-awe-from-navajo-nation/article_04a505cb-d195-5603-a70b-8248cd232723.html

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