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The Native Ahtsuccessfully won their respect—every now and then cheers and applause could be heard

Throughout the whole celebration, he was like the groo who had to accept all the drinks toasted to him and frequently made runs to the restrooht arrived

Li Du could finally take a break fro He felt bloated as his stomach was filled ine However, he had hardly eaten anything He was uncoer

He took a roasted leg of la it on top of the salt block When the saltiness was just right, he ate it up contentedly

Godzilla was still happily feasting upon the food and drinks Unlike Li Du, he did not rub the ainst the salt block, but he used a knife to scrape the salt block and applied it onto the roup of the Although the Hopi green wine did not have a high alcohol content, they had drunk a bit too much, so it was inevitable they would be drunk

The convoy slowly left the Hopi Reservation after they returned the feathers and loaded the goods onto their trucks

The treasure hunters gained nice valuable ite knives, they also secured a variety of handicrafts which were hugely popular and could therefore be sold for a neat price

The last destination before e on their journey home was Lake Powell

Lake Poas actually a reservoir straddling the border between Arizona and Utah Because of its unique history and environment, it was a famous tourist spot in the southwestern United States

The lake was not very old: it had been built around the same time as construction for Glen Canyon Dam started in 1956 The construction was not really couided the Colorado, San Juan and Escalante rivers into the lake

After they hit the road, they cruised along a highway not far from the San Juan River and saw Lake Powell

The well-known lake covered an area of 65,000 hectares, a depth of 170 th of 300 kiloot closer to the lake, Li Du could seethe road They even saw a roadblock setup by the to the way these people dressed, he could tell they were Navajos "What are they doing?" asked Li Du "Are they collecting a fee or what? The government just lets them do what they want?"

In actual fact, that was not the case The Navajos were not entirely an unreasonable and overbearing tribe They had set up the roadblock to force vehicles to decelerate so that they could pass so on and explained, "They are holding a protest to demand the resumption of land ownership around Lake Powell"

Their vehicle stopped and a Native Airl sift with humility

The leaflet was about the history of the repairs to Lake Powell It contained alion and how they had been oppressed by the Aed to the Navajo But when the governed a piece of land with the Navajo in the southern part of Utah

The Navajo objected to the exchange as the land around Lake Poas fertile whereas the piece of land in Utah was barren and could not be used to grow crops

At the tih-handed It was already benevolent of thehter all the Navajo, as there were instances of such massacres in their history

Noith the increase in the number of Native Aun to revisit history and wanted to reclairess had already started discussions on the issue Of course, they were debating on whether to dismantle the dams and open up Lake Powell

If Lake Poere abandoned, the government would have no need to occupy the land The Navajo could then reclaihts to the land

Maybe it was because they were quite hopeful of a favorable outcome, but the Navajos did not adopt radical measures in this overnh protests

Lake Powell entered their horizon

This lake had a nificent vieas surrounded by crireenery The colors were rich and radiant!