Letters

This year’s rerun of witty J. Ahasteen’s neatly expressive cartoons in the Dec. 28 issue of the Navajo Times was so hilariously entertaining as well as forceful reminders of reality.

[W]hy do our Navajo Nation leaders make hasty decisions to purchase 16,379 acres of land in Colorado (195 miles south of Denver, to be exact) for $23 million while our Navajo people wait their whole lives to get the basic necessities such as running water?

On Oct. 30, Police Officer Alphonso Haven came to the rescue of a Montana World War II veteran...

The Navajo Nation can spend LATF and PTF revenue on our veterans, housing, education and our elders, just to name a few. For a leader who ignores, or is dumbfounded when it comes to important issues on our Navajo Nation shows that perhaps he don’t respect and care for the Diné, is a doomed society. Wake up, speaker, and address these questions.

Stop, it is way past time to stop “reminding” us of how “the West was won.” It is time to say “the West was stolen!”