50 Years Ago: Orientation held for members of 1971 Navajo Tribal Council
All new delegates showed up as well as a few old-timers who apparently either wanted a chance to meet the “newbies” or get a refresher on how the Council works.
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50 Years Ago: Taking a look at how life changed in 25 years
The BIA has done a wonderful job of making positive changes to the lives of the Navajo people in the past 25 years, according to some Navajos. But about the same number of Navajos argue that the BIA has done nothing positive.
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Delayed sentence handed down for burglar
A Gallup woman was sentenced Thursday for her roll in a residential burglary on the Navajo Reservation back in 2016.
Read More50 Years Ago: New chairman relatively unknown to Time’s staff
Dick Hardwick, the editor of the Navajo Times, questioned employees of the paper during a staff meeting, asking them how much they knew of the background of the tribe’s new chairman and vice chairman.
Read More50 Years Ago: MacDonald easily wins election for tribal chairman
“Peter MacDonald, who dropped out of school at the age of 12 to become a Navajo medicine man, was elected the chairman of the Navajo Tribe on Tuesday,” the lead of the AP story on his election stated.
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Dewpoint: 30.9 F (-0.6 C)
Humidity: 37%
Wind: Northeast at 8.1 MPH (7 KT)
Pressure: 30.26
Highway 264,
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