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...Kodiak, for instance (not to be too confused with Kojak), is an Alaska state trooper (Clint Walker), outfitted for trapping his man properly: snowmobile, snowshoes and icy determination. ABC's Nakia (Robert Banyon Forster) is a hot-tempered Navajo deputy sheriff in New Mexico, evidently intended to be confused with both the cult-film heroics of Billy Jack and the mystical-religious cant of Kung...
...Navajo Reservation stretches across 16 million acres of sagebrush desert and red sandstone mesas in three Southwestern states-Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. The land was ceded to the Navajos in 1868, after the Indians had been battered into submission by Colonel Kit Carson. Today the reservation is in effect a separate nation-state, subject to neither state laws nor taxes. It is frontier country, where trading posts and prejudice flourish: the reservation's 140,000 inhabitants are still eyed by many whites as savages. But the Navajos are slowly gaining a degree of prosperity and political power...
...Farmington has more rednecks than anywhere else in the world," says Wilbert Tsosie, 27, a founder of the Coalition for Navajo Liberation. "They kill you with their eyes first, then pick a secluded spot to beat you up." For the past six weeks, Tsosie's coalition has sponsored Saturday parades in Farmington to protest the murders and press for more services for Indians. The demonstrations were peaceful until the most recent one, when the Indians collided with the annual sheriffs posse rodeo parade. The drill team was dressed in old cavalry costumes, like the ones worn by the Indians...
...results of a 14-week-long study at a Navajo boarding school show that the students taking large daily doses of Vitamin C were sick an average of 32 per cent fewer days than those students who were administered look-alike placebos...
...conducted one recent Ravinia concert in dark blue bell-bottoms and matching polo shirt) and is so relaxed that he can indulge in one of his favorite pastimes, eating, even during intermissions. Aside from his steady girl friend, a Manhattan oboist, he has no organized nonmusical interests except the Navajo rugs and dinosaur bones that he collects for his apartment overlooking Central Park. Says he: "I feel there is enough scheduling in a musician's life that I try not to regulate the other things...