50 Years Ago

The Navajo Nation, as well as area law enforcement officials, say they still don’t know quite what to do about what was reported in 1964 at a school in Las Vegas.

Peter MacDonald was back in the news this week when he decided that as the director of the Navajo Office of Economic Opportunity, he would support the U.S. senator who criticized the amount of money the federal government was spending on the poor, saying more should be given to Indian programs.

Fifty years ago, the subject of most conversation by tribal members was probably the ongoing race for Navajo Tribal Chairman between the current chairman Raymond Nakai and his opponent Sam Billison.

A half century ago, a reporter for the Associated Press spent more than two weeks on the Navajo Reservation talking to some of the 110,000 tribal members who lived on the reservation and came out of the experience extremely impressed with what he had seen.