By Katy Bolger (NYULivewire) - On the side of Gray Mountain in northeast Arizona, Lorraine Curley lives alone in a two-room concrete home. Her roof is tarpaper and tin, and her bathroom is a wooden outhouse 50 feet from her door. Living without electricity or water is a way of life for Curley; she has, after all, been restricted by the Bennett Freeze, a law enacted in 1966 that prevented 18,000 reservation residents from repairing their homes, or building new ones, until the freeze was lifted in May 2009.
Curley would like a new home, and she.s not picky: It doesn.t need to have electricity or running water . a floor and insulation would be nice.
.Maybe I.ll never see a home,. she said. And at 79 years old, Curley is running out of time.
Curley is Diné, or Navajo, and like more than 180,000 others in her tribe, she lives on the reservation known as Navajo Nation,...
Curley would like a new home, and she.s not picky: It doesn.t need to have electricity or running water . a floor and insulation would be nice.
.Maybe I.ll never see a home,. she said. And at 79 years old, Curley is running out of time.
Curley is Diné, or Navajo, and like more than 180,000 others in her tribe, she lives on the reservation known as Navajo Nation,...
- 11/4/2009
- Arizona Reporter
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