Word: begay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navajo Katherine Smith, 60, who spent a night in jail after firing over the heads of workers erecting a partition fence near her home at Big Mountain. "We're old folks. We live on our land. We don't know about white man's law." Nathan Begay, a Hopi working in the reservation's Bureau of Indian Affairs office, insists the U.S. Government started it all. "By doing nothing for so many years, the Government consented to the Navajos' living out there. They dug in." Most observers assume that only death or federal marshals will...