WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – When a group of Navajo traditional healers met here June 1, things went badly right away. An elderly woman arrived, grim-faced, and the men knew what was coming. She was the latest person to be conned by a fake medicine man, a charlatan. “What she wanted,” says Daniel Deschinny, secretary of […]
Bill Donovan
Navajo tribe embarks on a long-term cleanup
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Since taking office in 1995, Navajo Nation President Albert Hale says, he got upset every time he flew in or out of the airport here. Beside the airstrip was an illegal trash dump that has been growing for at least 50 years. Hale vowed to clean up the dump, and did. […]