50 Years Ago

Dogs – you either loved them or hated them and, in 1971, a lot of reservation residents were turning into dog haters.

Back in the 1960s, when Raymond Nakai was chairman of the tribal Council, the tribe entered into agreements with several companies to provide them loans to help them to set up shop on the reservation.

The number of times that the Navajo Tribal Council has taken notice of the passing of a Navajo medicine man over the past 50 years can be counted on one’s fingers.

One of the changes in newspaper coverage in the Navajo Times instituted by Chet MacRorie after he took over the editorship of the paper in 1971 was to include coverage of what was going on in the national Indian scene.