50 Years Ago

The late 60s and early 70s were a tense time for some of the communities bordering the reservation as Navajo youth organizations began holding protests and complaining about how people in those communities treated Navajos who went there to shop.

Back in the summer of 1968, Navajo Times management was taking a long, hard look at the tribal newspaper in an effort to find out why people bought it.

U.S. District Court Judge Walter Craig in Phoenix has issued a temporary ruling allowing Ted Mitchell back on the Navajo Reservation so he can run DNA-People’s Legal Services from his Window Rock office.

Although the kidnapping of a 16-year-old Navajo girl did not occur on the Navajo Reservation, it had gained some attention on the reservation.