50 Years Ago

Adolophe Begay, a Navajo living at the time in Durango, Colo., stopped by the offices of the Navajo Times and talked to the paper’s managing editor, Chet MacRorie, for more than an hour about conditions on the Navajo Reservation.

You can’t say the tribe’s chairman was provincial in his thinking about the tribe’s future.

When you plan to leave a high-ranking position on the reservation for a more important job, make sure that you have the new job first.

Navajo Nation Chief Prosecutor Perry Allen has been writing a legal column for the Navajo Times for the past few months and it has become one of the most read section of the Times.