50 Years Ago

As 1966 drew to a close, Navajo tribal officials got some good news from Joe Armijo, the liquor director for the state of New Mexico.

As Christmas season hit the Navajo Reservation 50 years ago, there was a lot of talk about making religious services on the reservation more accessible to the Navajo members.

The big story in December 1966 centered around attempts by Stewart Udall, the secretary of the Interior, to change completely the relationship between tribes and the federal government.

The Navajo Times began something in December 1966 that could have been a game changer.

By the end of November 1966, most Navajos were probably sick and tired of reading election news and they were probably especially glad that the race between Raymond Nakai and Sam Billison for the chairmanship of the tribe was once and all history.