Wow, this is really an oddly interesting discussion. I have no guilt for any native individual or tribe. That is literally a concept that you, for some unknown reason, have assigned to me. Your story is interesting, but fails to deal with reality, as you seem unwilling to face the facts. Yes, the census indicates a growth in the Navajo Nation. There are also great difficulties in doing accurate counts on many reservations, with some tribes claiming that their careful, deliberate counts can produce figures that are 50% higher, and greater, as compared to government counts. So, how much is a tribe really thriving, failing, growing, or shrinking, based on a system that does a very poor job of accounting? Who knows, since the old saying of garbage in, garbage out applies to this particular set of census data. Ever built a house that lists two adults and two children as the legal occupants, but has eighteen people surviving the winter inside, I have, and it's on a Rez. How do you think that works out when the census taker shows up? Do we then ignore family incomes that are half the state average, on the Navajo rez? Next do we ignore unemployment stats that are double? Or the 55%+ percent of Navajo adults that do not participate in the labor force at all. I guess the poverty rates being double the national average, crime stats, alcoholism, drugs and gangs on that, or any other rez. really need to be ignored too?
Not sure why you chose to cling so strongly to a fantasy, but the Navajo people, and their rez. closely mirror the rest of Indian Country, and your in a pretty lonely crowd as you pontificate on how wonderful life is for the people. Are there tremendous opportunities for better days ahead? Absolutely. Is success likely, based on recent history of failed enterprises, and broken promises, that are the norm in Indian Country? Hell no. Nothing to to do with your desire to assign some sense of guilt to anybody, or your rose colored view of something that doesn't exist, it's just reality.