Author: Krista Allen

Former Navajo Nation President Kelsey A. Begaye was remembered Friday at a memorial service that evoked the Vietnam veteran’s unbreakable will, the father and grandfather and the leader devoted to his people.

Lone Rock’s bathtub ring records how far the water level has fallen in Lake Powell.

Kelsey A. Begaye, the fifth president of the Navajo Nation, a U.S. Army veteran, a humble pastor, and a reformer who once lived on the streets of Los Angeles struggling with addiction, died at 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 13 in Kinłání. He was 70.

Begaye was born and raised in Kaibeto, Arizona. He was born to the late Wallace and Ada Begaye. He had two brothers and four sisters.

He served as the fifth president of the Navajo Nation from 1999 to 2003.