Here is the article. And a link to the law review article here.
An excerpt:
There are many ironies in the history of relations between the United States and its indigenous peoples, but one in particular may be a telling illustration of the distribution of power.
Flip on a light switch in any of the great cities of the Southwest, such as Los Angeles, Las Vegas or Phoenix, and much of the time the energy that creates the light will be coming from one of four massive coal-burning electrical plants located on or a few miles from Navajo Nation land in Arizona and New Mexico.
The plants are critically important employers for members of the Navajo and Hopi tribes, about 40 percent of whom live below the poverty line.
The irony is that as many as 20,000 Navajo and Hopi families, surrounded on the south, east and west by power plants that deliver electricity to brightly lit cities hundreds of miles away, don’t have access to the electricity grid themselves.
Seven decades after the Tennessee Valley Authority brought electricity to the rural South, a significant population in the U.S. – estimated at 14 percent of Indian homes on U.S. reservations – has yet to experience a crucial advantage of 20th-century life.
Ryan Dreveskracht believes that solar power may be a way to change that.
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