Review: A sad tale of shattered dreams
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 31, 2012
Havasu Palms is a sad tale of the shattered dreams of a hardworking American family that played by the rules, invested they owned, including their own blood, sweat and tears, dedicating their lives to something they believed in. In return were cheated out of their life's work by the unjust, even corrupt actions of Federal agencies and a Native American tribe who showed no mercy in their own quest for greed and power.Having lived in northern Arizona and seen what happened to the leaseholders at Hawley Lake when another tribal government and the Bureau of Indian Affairs did pretty much the same thing, and having observed what the Forest Service did to leaseholders in Madera Canyon south of Tucson, I now all too well how empty the promises of these entities can be. While one side works in good faith, the other makes back room deals and breaks all the rules. Even the rules that they themselves create!Well written and filled with many excellent photographs, Havasu Palms is an easy read, but not one that will leave you feeling good about what can happen to the good guys in America today. The author knows and tells the story well, because she lived it.