50 Years Ago: Judge orders Diné off disputed land
As Raymond Nakai continued campaigning for re-election as tribal chairman and claiming he had been the most effective leader in the tribe’s history, a scandal erupted.
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Posted by Bill Donovan | May 7, 2020 | 50 Years Ago |
As Raymond Nakai continued campaigning for re-election as tribal chairman and claiming he had been the most effective leader in the tribe’s history, a scandal erupted.
Read MorePosted by Bill Donovan | Apr 30, 2020 | 50 Years Ago |
For 14 years, Jose Pablo Trujillo had been trying to convince the Navajo government that he was a member of the Navajo Tribe — with no luck.
Read MorePosted by Bill Donovan | Apr 23, 2020 | 50 Years Ago |
There’s a movement underway for the Navajo Tribe to take over all schools on the Navajo Reservation and the tribe’s current chairman, Raymond Nakai, is angry.
Read MorePosted by Bill Donovan | Apr 16, 2020 | 50 Years Ago |
The race to select a new chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council was underway and it was now evident that it would be a two-man race – incumbent Raymond Nakai versus Peter MacDonald, who had finally stepped down as director of the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity to spend full time campaigning.
Read MorePosted by Bill Donovan | Apr 9, 2020 | 50 Years Ago |
IHS officials said they were in discussions with the tribe and leading medicine men to see if such a program could be implemented on the Navajo Reservation much like the program that already existed to train doctors to serve in the U.S.
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