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What has brought them crowding together is an illness that is baffling * scientists and panicking the 175,000 residents of the 17 million-acre Navajo nation. So far, 18 people have been struck with what is being called "unexplained adult respiratory-distress syndrome." Almost all the victims have lived on or near the reservation, which stretches across northwestern New Mexico and into Arizona and Utah. Of the 11 who have died, nine are Indians. The outbreak came to light last month, when a young Navajo man fell ill on his way to the funeral of his 24-year-old girlfriend...
...elderly, who have immature or weakened immune systems, this one primarily attacks the young and healthy. "The pattern is different than anything I've ever seen," says Dr. Frederick Koster, an infectious-disease specialist at University Hospital in Albuquerque. The latest fatality was a 13-year-old Navajo girl, who collapsed after dancing at a school graduation party at Red Rock State Park outside Gallup. "I will see that scene for the rest of my life," says Sammy Trujillo, a park manager. "Her mother was screaming, 'Somebody save my child!' and there was nothing I could...
...teenage Navajo mother in blue jeans would come in with a baby who was suffering from a cold and ask for some medication," recalls Dr. Joe Jacobs, summoning up a scene from his days at the Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico. "She'd be accompanied by the grandmother in traditional hoop skirt, who kept silent." After examining the child, Jacobs would offer his prescription for soothing inflamed nasal passages: boil some sage leaves in water and have the youngster inhale the aromatic fumes. "When she'd hear that, the young mother invariably would give the grandmother a sheepish...
Peter MacDonald's 14-year effort to build an independent Navajo Nation for America's largest Indian tribe was hobbled by repeated run-ins with the law. His latest setback: a 14 1/2-year sentence from a Phoenix federal judge for his role in a 1989 riot at the tribe's Window Rock, Arizona, headquarters, where two of his supporters were killed. MacDonald, 64, will serve the term concurrently with previous sentences: five years from a 1992 federal racketeering case and seven years from a 1990 case in which he was convicted by a tribal court of accepting kickbacks and bribes...
Vivian Twostar -- part Navajo, wholly feminist -- is an assistant professor of anthropology, desperately seeking tenure. As the story laboriously unfolds, Vivian gives birth to a daughter by her once and future lover Roger Williams, poet and English prof. She is a sensual, lapsed Catholic Earth Mother. Roger is Mr. Stuffy: a New England Episcopalian with neat-freak closets and a kitchen full of name-brand gizmos...