The mere act of flicking on a light switch is something that can’t be taken for granted on the Navajo reservation, where tens of thousands of homes still lack electricity. Nowhere else in America do so many live in darkness, a fact driven home by this eye-popping stat: More than 18,000 households on the reservation […]
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Turn Off the Dark
October 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags:Arizona·corruption·crime·Native Americans·Navajo·New Mexico·politics
Farewell, Sonny Jim
October 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Sad news out of New Mexico this morning: Sonny Jim, a true legend of the Indian rodeo scene, was gunned down during a property dispute. A man of Modoc descent who’d long lived in Navajo country, Sonny Jim was the nation’s top Indian cowboy during the early 1970s, renowned for his long, luxuriant hippie hair […]
Tags:Arizona·cowboys·crime·New Mexico·rodeo·Sonny Jim·sports