50 Years Ago

The U.S. Census Office has hired more than 30 workers, most of them Navajo, to help determine how many people are living on the Navajo Reservation on April 1, 1970.

Window Rock and Fort Defiance area residents learned that life as they knew it, at least for the next 60 days, was over.

The Navajo Reservation has become famous, sort of.

The Window Rock Motor Inn opened for business for the first time 50 years ago last week and immediately had an impact on life in the capital of the Navajo Tribe.

If you were above the age of 18 in the 1970s, it’s quite likely you were among the tens of thousands if Navajos who complained about gasoline prices.