50 years ago: Tribe tries to get traders to pay up
Fifty years ago, the Navajo Tribe for two years had been going after trading post operators who had not been paying their lease payments. The program was apparently a big success.
Read MorePosted by Bill Donovan | Nov 29, 2018 | 50 Years Ago |
Fifty years ago, the Navajo Tribe for two years had been going after trading post operators who had not been paying their lease payments. The program was apparently a big success.
Read MorePosted by Bill Donovan | Nov 21, 2018 | 50 Years Ago |
In 1966 ago, when Raymond Nakai was running for re-election, he made Navajo voters a promise: Give me another four years and I will give you a nursing home on the Navajo Reservation.
Read MorePosted by Bill Donovan | Nov 15, 2018 | 50 Years Ago |
No one ever thought it would happen, but this week 50 years ago the Navajo Tribal Council actually decided to give the Navajo people a chance to weigh in on what was one of the most controversial subjects of the past 30 years on the Navajo Reservation – should the tribe have a constitution?
Read MorePosted by Bill Donovan | Nov 8, 2018 | 50 Years Ago |
By 1968, the Native American Church claimed to have a membership of more than 30,000 on the Navajo Reservation and more than 110,000 throughout Indian Country, so the front-page article in the Navajo Times in mid-November attracted a lot of attention.
Read MorePosted by Bill Donovan | Nov 1, 2018 | 50 Years Ago |
If you are over the age of 55, it’s very likely that you can remember where you were 50 years ago this weekend
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