Kathleen Sylvester, in Governing (April 1988), 1414 22nd St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20037.
The 200,000-member Navajo tribe in Arizona owns 16 million acres. Its Tribal Council manages a $209 million budget. Yet the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which oversees the nation's 507 recognized tribes of Indians and Alaska natives, rules on such matters as cutting trees and the leasing of property on the reservation. Navajo police cannot investigate rapes and 17 other "major crimesu-these are under...