In last week’s Law and Order Committee meeting, Azee’ Bee Nahagha of Diné Nation leadership presented a resolution and pleaded that the Navajo Nation Council oppose the potential decriminalization of peyote (Azee’) by certain states in order to protect and preserve the Peyote Way of Life.
The thing that Navajo Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald feared would happen did the last week of May in 1972 – the Hopi Tribe arrested a Navajo rancher and charged him with trespass.
The Navajo County Sheriff’s Office reports that a traffic stop on May 17 on State Route 87 south of Winslow resulted in the arrest of Edward Jose Tovar-Gonzalez, 31), of Phoenix, for possession of narcotic drugs for sale and transportation of drugs.
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