50 Years Ago

Everyone – and the Navajo Times was serious about that – had a grand time at the Miss Navajo Chinle pageant held this week in Chinle.

The Navajo Times reported this week that efforts were being made to make the paper independent from the tribe to enable the paper to print the news without worrying about political consequences.

In early August 1965, a couple of events happened that of themselves was not unusual but would lead a couple of years later to concerns by some members of the tribe that border town law enforcement agencies were not taking the deaths of Navajos and residents of the reservation in their jurisdiction as seriously as they should.

So what was the big controversy this week on the Navajo Reservation? Believe it or not, it was belly dancers.