An anonymous letter arrived from a Navajo living in Southern California and Dick Hardwick, the Time’s editor decided to publish it although the paper had a policy of not printing unsigned letters.
Read MoreI can’t tell you how many times I wrote for the Navajo Times of a tribal leader saying they had a company willing to set up operations on the Navajo Reservation and was going to employ hundreds of Navajos.
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Navajo Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald made his first public speech since being elected to office 50 years ago this week, as the guest speaker at the annual banquet for the McKinley County Chamber of Commerce, and he decided to use it to tackle one of the main issues of the day — the distance that existed between the tribe and the towns that bordered the reservation.
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It turns out one of the problems the new chairman will have to look into is the tribe’s mineral leases with outside companies.
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It didn’t take Peter MacDonald long to start making changes to the Navajo government that would make him the most powerful leader the tribe has ever had. In January 1971, the power in the government rested within the Navajo Tribal Council, which made all decisions.
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