50 Years Ago

As the snowstorms of December 1967 became history, the planes started coming almost on an hourly basis to the Window Rock airstrip bringing everything from food to dolls for the Navajo people.

It was the last week in December of 1967 and residents of the Navajo Reservation were thoroughly disgusted with the weather.

How bad were the snowstorms that hit the Navajo Reservation in mid-December of 1967?

Old-timers on the Navajo Reservation, when asked about what they remember about 1967, will probably say the snowstorms. Snow began falling on the reservation about Dec. 10 and for the next few weeks that is all people could talk about as the snows lingered, trapping thousands of Navajo families in their homes because of road conditions.