50 Years Ago

Back in 1968, if you just said “boarding school” and asked the average Navajo to give a response, that response would probably be “Intermountain.”

After talking about it for more then 30 years, mostly in a negative way, the Navajo Tribal Council will finally have a discussion later this month on a constitution that has been drawn up by the tribe’s chairman, Raymond Nakai.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs reported that two boys who ran away from the Crownpoint Boarding School had died after they tried to walk to their homes some 50 miles away.