Editing Dilkon, Arizona (section)

==Environmental movement==
In 1988, Waste-Tech Services, Inc. approached and was approved by the tribal government of Dilkon, Arizona to build a $40 million recycling plant. It was hoped this project could bring 200 jobs to Dilkon; an area with 75% unemployment at this point. Further research revealed to the community that the recycling plant would instead be a toxic waste dump where waste was trucked in from California, Nevada, and Colorado to be burned in Dilkon. Public outrage built when it was discovered that medical human waste, including amputated limbs, would also be burned at this location. The Navajo believe that the dead are to be respected and this process appeared to them extremely disrespectful.<ref>{{cite journal
  | last = Brook
  | first = Daniel
  | title = Environmental Genocide: Native Americans and Toxic Waste
  | journal = [[The American Journal of Economics and Sociology]]
  | date = Jan 1998
  | jstor = 3487423
  | pages= 105–113
  | volume=57
  | issue = 1
 | doi=10.1111/j.1536-7150.1998.tb03260.x}}</ref>
To combat the possibility of a Waste-Tech Services, Inc. facility, the citizens created the organization Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment (CARE). Co-founded by Lori Goodman and Abe Plummer, CARE was able to reduce the project’s credibility in Dilkon. On February 25, 1989, Waste-Tech Services, Inc. and its partner company High-Tech Recycling, Inc. put on a public hearing and brought in a panel of engineers to discuss the project, in hopes of gaining back public favor. The final citizen’s vote was ninety-nine opposed to the project, six for the project. On March 6, tribal leaders unanimously rescinded their approval of the project. CARE had successfully blocked the possibility of a toxic waste dump on their land.<ref name="About IEN">{{cite web
 |title       = The Indigenous Environmental Network
 |work        = About IEN
 |publisher   = IEN
 |url         = http://www.ienearth.org/about.html
 |access-date  = April 26, 2010
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100512033744/http://www.ienearth.org/about.html
 |archive-date = May 12, 2010
}}</ref>
Shortly after this success other Navajo grassroots environmental groups began to form to fight the overwhelming [[environmental racism]] stacked against them. Due to the lower lack of wealth and education on American Indian reservations, and their status as a minority, the U.S. government has allowed the encroachment of mining and energy companies for over 40 years to develop the Diné lands, creating environmental and health devastation and loss of aquifer water resources. CARE found that its success could benefit the other struggling organizations, so they banded together into a conglomerate environmental group representing all of the Navajo people, called [[Diné CARE]]. (Diné simply means "The People" and it is what the Navajo call themselves.)<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Navajo People-Dine
  | url = http://navajopeople.org
  | access-date = April 26, 2010
}}</ref>