ABSTRACT
Public Law 93–531 mandated that approximately 10,000 Navajos would have to relocate from 900,000 acres of reservation land in northeastern Arizona. The Navajos occupied about 90 percent of the Federal Joint Use Area (FJUA), and in 1974 Congress decided that the lands should be split on a fifty-fifty basis, meaning that many Navajos would have to move. The first intervention’s goal was to increase the level of communication in the FJUA and disseminate accurate information. This intervention was highly successful because it provided an objective data source while developments in the FJUA were changing almost daily. The first intervention utilized a form of applied anthropology not commonly thought of in work among American Indians. The anthropologist, who by this time had begun clinical services at the Winslow service unit in response to FJUA and other patient needs, consulted with the program’s staff on difficult patient issues.
