ABSTRACT
In 1976, The Kaibab Paiute Tribe received a three-year comprehensive planning assistance grant from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Critical community concerns included a need for warm and sufficient housing, safe and adequate culinary and irrigation water and improved health care services. Roland Warren suggests that American communities may lack the capacity to effectively solve their problems through local level action. In 1776, the year of American independence, the native peoples of the Great Basin began to lose access to a control of the material, social and symbolic power resources that had been the base of their successful adaptation as hunters and gatherers. The “extended community” consisting of all members of the Kaibab Band and their households regardless of current place of residence plus all residents of the reservation regardless of their official enrollment status was defined as the beneficiary population for purposes of planning while the reservation was the physical location for developmental change.
