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...medicine men," the teacher tells the class, "who came up with the religious beliefs that are the backbone of our Navajo culture." Lloyd | House speaks in a gravelly voice, has a boxer's much broken nose and wears a traditional turquoise necklace around his neck. "The medicine man we are talking about today was called Naahwiitbiihi -- which means the 'man who always wins.' Sounds like Frank Sinatra, doesn't it?" he says, and chuckles...
...high school students, all Navajos, all shy and soft-spoken, all wearing high-topped sneakers and distressed blue jeans, don't seem to know or care who Ol' Blue Eyes is. On this spring day they are more interested in completing their model hogans, the round, age-old Navajo structures whose doorways must always face east, the direction of dawn, the region of all beginnings...
...train ride is a visceral excursion into history. You can hear, if you listen carefully, the hiss of escaping steam, the chime of crystal goblets and the rustle of starched table linens. You can see, if you open your mind's eye, a lone Navajo saluting the Super Chief as it pulls into Albuquerque; buffalo racing alongside the Empire Builder in Montana. On board there are movie stars and Senators, Vanderbilts and Astors dining on fresh- caught trout...
...Nevada nuclear-test site from the 1950s to the early '60s. Victims were convinced their illness came from clouds of radiation. Udall was outraged to learn that a 1981 U.S. Public Health Service survey had found cancer rates five times higher than normal among 15,000 white and Navajo uranium miners in the region but concealed the findings from the victims. He began filing claims against the Government on behalf of both the miners and the "downwinders...
...company, which he founded in 1971 with fellow Caltech aeronautical engineers Tombach and Peter Lissaman, derives most of its annual $17 million revenue from the monitoring and control of air pollution and hazardous wastes. One current contract, for example, involves determining the contribution of Arizona's giant coal-fired Navajo power plant to the haze that sometimes hampers visibility around the nearby Grand Canyon...