Author: Bill Donovan

Navajo Tribal Chairman Raymond Nakai would later admit that what he did 50 years ago this week was a long shot, but he really thought he had a chance to finally resolve, once and for all time, the long-standing land dispute between the Navajos and the Hopis.

For a brief period in 1970, John Billy of Steamboat became the face of the Navajo people to the American public.

The Navajo tribe received terrible news this week from an Arizona superior court judge who ruled in favor of the state on the question of whether Navajos living on the reservation had to pay state tax.

The Navajo Times, in its second issue of 1970, finally recognized the importance of the Navajo Taco.