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Nasdijj, the one-name author of The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams, claimed to be the son of a Navajo mother and a white father. His memoir features a child named Tommy Nothing Fancy who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder. Quite the coincidence, don't you think...
...hospital specializing in mental health—set out to verify the claims of the Native American Church that the drug causes little, if any, long-term psychological damage. For the study, Instructor in Psychiatry John H. Halpern traveled to the Southwest to spend time with members of the Navajo tribe. During his stay, Halpern consumed peyote as part of the Church’s sacrament and conducted tests on hundreds of tribe members. The study compared the results of a basic psychological exam given to 60 Native American Church members who had used peyote over 100 times, 79 tribe...
DIED. R.C. GORMAN, 74, internationally renowned Navajo artist; of a blood infection and pneumonia; in Albuquerque, N.M. Derided by some as repetitive and uninspired, his paintings and sculptures, often of Native American women, were hugely popular in the 1970s and '80s, drawing such fans as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Andy Warhol and appearing in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which put one of his works on the cover of a catalog for a 1973 exhibition...
...four co-chairmen. Organizers stress, however, that "this is a people's event." A North Dakota radio station is sponsoring an essay contest that will reward winners with transportation down to the line. A chili cook-off is planned along the route in Texas. Members of the feuding Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes have got together to endorse the event. Along a ten-mile stretch in New Mexico, thousands of hot-air balloons will ascend simultaneously. The chain will snake through the Pittsburgh Pirates' Three Rivers Stadium, where Pete Rose's Cincinnati Reds will be playing, so that fans...
...chill by the time the women arrived at her place to nail down September's issue. From 1915 until it closed four years ago, Harriet's place was called Young's Hotel. Built by her father John Young, it is hand-hewn pine and stucco, rough planks, notched banisters, Navajo blankets and deer heads on the walls--a set for any movie that goes by the name of Stagecoach. It had 16 rooms to let upstairs above the dusty front desk, rooms you let yourself into. "Our guests just went in the rooms and paid the next day," Harriet said...