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...this summer, before I came back to school, the people in my town got together and held a prayer ceremony for me in the Native American Church--which is an attempt to combine Christianity with the Navajo culture. Although I am not a member of the church, the ceremony was a gesture which I accepted from the people because it was their way to support me in coming back to school here. All through the night people sat around the fire in a hogan singing, praying and chanting with the drums. Old people sat up all night long praying...
...Williams '77, a Sisseton Sioux by birth, was raised on Window Rock Reservation--a Navajo reservation approximately three times the size of Massachusetts, which encompasses 1/2 of northern Arizona, a good portion of northeastern New Mexico, and a smaller chunk of southern Utah. Williams, a resident tutor at Quincy House, is now in her first year at Harvard Law School, after majoring in economics as an undergraduate...
...statement issued to the press by representatives of the Navajo, Iroquois and Sioux nations, the Indians accused the federal government of practicing a "clear-cut policy of genocide," as defined by the Geneva Convention...
Williams, an Economics concentrator who is executive director of the Navajo Tax Commission, said the AIH sponsors cultural events, dinners, a lecture series and competes in an Ivy League Indian basketball league, in addition to organizing the annual conference...
PETER MacDONALD, chairman, Navajo Tribal Council: I grew up in the middle of the Navajo reservation. There were no taxes, welfare or store, newspaper or anything, not even radio. Talk about separate. Up until I was seven and left the reservation, the only people in this world were Navajos. Respect for certain things was drilled into me. Also not to question those things which the elders have put together. When I left the reservation I did well because the basic thing that motivated me was respect for what was already accomplished. Today young people are beginning to question all kinds...