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W e use a systematically integrated combination of ethnoscience ethnography and survey research to provide a description of what Navajos have been taking into account when deciding how to cope with accelerating energy extraction and other industrial development. Beginning with a decision model of the adaptation process, we validate that model with a resemtionwide survey. Perceptions of the most likely outcomes f r o m development are relatively uniform across different socioeconomic groups. Three factors appear to be important in accounting for vanation in attitudes toward development: degree of integration into the external economy, degree of marginality to the Navajo kinship system, and degree of marginality to the subsistence livestock economy.

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