Russell Begaye: “What my people need first and foremost is compensation and need it now.”

But, over 90 percent of Utah Navajos support the monument.

Water is life.

The only special interests that concern me are those of uranium mining interests.

H.R. 5780 stands to reduce the Navajo Nation revenues. The bill would decrease the Navajo Nation's royalty revenues from its oil and gas leases located in the Aneth extension on the Navajo reservation from 62.5 percent to 37.5 percent.