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Larry Gordy brings his kids to the ranch often to teach them about the land the Bennett Freeze made unlivable. But he doesnt know where to begin. ÒNow that the Freeze is lifted, were expected to come out here and build something out of all this…

Sarah Mann and her Grandchildren keep a keen eye on a visitor approaching their trailer. A study commissioned by the government found that fewer than one fourth of the homes on the reservation are habitable.

Each weekday, the Almeida children stumble through the black dawn to their grandmothers house, where they brush their teeth with contaminate water at the kitchen sink and scarf down a breakfast of instant ramen before heading to school. Julio Almeida…

The hard floor serves as sleeping quarters to Thomasina and 3 of her children. The family, who cannot afford to buy a bed, sleep together wearing their street clothes to try and stay warm in their unheated trailer. During the week, Thomasina sends…

Thomasina Nez, 35, gives Bobbi, 4, a bath in a small tin basin next to the wood stove in their dilapidated trailer on a Navajo Reservation in Cameron, Arizona, on a wintry day. Thomasina, who lives in the now former 'Bennett Freeze' area, has no…

In 1966 the commissioner on Indian Affairs, Robert Bennett, outlawed development on a 1.6-million-acre tract of tribal land in northeastern Arizona that was claimed by both the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe. Known as the ÒBennett Freeze,Ó the…

Members of the Afghan National Police stand at the top of a mountain overlooking Combat Outpost McClain in the Mohammed Agha district of Logar province, Afghanistan Sunday May 24, 2009. The greatest challenge and most important goal of the US effort…

A young boy watches as Spc. Don Ezra Plemmons of 3rd Platoon Delta Co. of the 2/87 Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade 10th Mountain Division based at COP Sayedabad buys pharmaceutical supplies as he participates in a patrol through the bazaar in the town…

A boy works digging out an open sewer in a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday June 14, 2009. Improving the material circumstances of Afghans is key to the success of the new strategy, derided as 'nation…

Merchants and customers do business at the Kut-E-Sangi circle in western Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday June 17, 2009. The population in the capital is largely insulated from the fighting in the countryside, but is still on edge from sporadic and…