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About 70 professors, students and administrators gathered at the Carpenter Center Monday night to honor noted Navajo artist R.C. Gorman for his contributions to American art and Native American culture...
Many special favors go far beyond the usual borders of banking. Customers at Houston's Medical Center Bank with at least $100,000 in their accounts are welcome to borrow the company airplane, a six-passenger Navajo Chieftain. They are asked only to fill the gas tank. At a customer's request, the bank will dispatch its limousine or arrange for theater tickets. The bank, which is situated at the Texas Medical Center, decided in 1978 to devote itself entirely to doctors and other wealthy customers. Says Chairman Donald Neuenschwander: "You can't be all things...
Tsosie, part Navajo, part Mojave, comes from Colorado River Reservation, Arizona. He is one of the two non-urban residents of his group here. He left his hometown to attend a private school in Chicago, while he supported himself. A Columbia recruiter convinced him to apply to Eastern colleges. He had never heard of Harvard before. In his small town of Parker, "counselors discourage you from applying to college," he says, "and Anglos tell you you're stupid." He adds that the Klu Klux Klan counts 200 members in his town. Now, whites at home hate him even more, because...
...Interstate 25. The Indians sold the right of way for the highway for $1.4 million. When they are not negotiating rights of way for roads, railroads, power lines, phone lines and gas lines, they can be found in Santa Fe or Albuquerque selling their jewelry or their property or Navajo blankets they have traded for. They also farm and tend cattle and celebrate the Roman Catholic Mass. When they have satisfied the demands of their own ancients, they dance for the good of humanity. One day in late January, while dancing for world peace and prosperity, a plane crossed their...
...plague makes its infrequent appearances in the far West and Southwest because it flourishes among rodents of the high desert plains. The human risk is limited primarily to people trekking into the wilds who are bitten by fleas that have been infected by the rodents. The Navajo Indians of the region seem particularly susceptible, owing to their outdoor lifestyle, their sheepherding and their free-running dogs, all of which increase the risk of infection. They account for half of the cases in Arizona and New Mexico, where the disease has been concentrated this year. Nonetheless, the incidence is comparatively...