Death of 'favorite uncle' haunts family
Donald Tsosie, 41, vanished after leaving Ganado with his girlfriend on March 29, 1998. His beaten body was found weeks later on a Farmington ledge. His sisters learned the fate in Gallup, then identified him in Farmington. The tale recalls their mother's murder by a stepfather, and the family’s life raising Tsosie children on Navajo land with sheep and limited schooling.
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Ganado
Ariz
Donald Tsosie
Gallup
Tsosie
Laura Kee
Farmington
Chinle
Nora Dennison
Kee
Dennison
Navajo
Chicago
Donald
Togei
Utah
Phoenix
Camp Courage connects youth with Navajo tradition at PAL camp
Camp Courage at Camp Asaayi near Crystal attracts many children ages 10 to 13 sponsored by the Police Athletic League and NA' Nizhoozhi Center. Officers from the Navajo police help chaperone as kids learn archery, water activities, and a traditional blue corn meal mush ceremony under the guidance of volunteers.
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Jeff Jones
Camp Courage
Madalin Chavez
Asaayi
Crystal N.M
Crystal
Police Athletic League
PAL
Camp
Levon Benally
Tohatchi Pal
Benally
Chavez
Na’Nizhoozhi Center Inc
NCI
Latisha Notah
Grandma
Notah
Woman survives self inflicted throat wound after desert trek
A 31 year old San Diego woman, fearing pregnancy by a space alien, slit her throat from ear to ear on a mesa top Friday. She survived. Johnny Valdez and State Police Officer Billy Cunningham traced a blood trail over more than two miles for five hours before locating her dazed and bleeding on the flat land below. She was rushed to Cibola General Hospital in Grants for emergency surgery as her father hurried from Wisconsin. The woman said she was driving to Wisconsin to visit her parents, stopping at Plano Colorado, a hamlet near Milan, Grants and just south of Interstate See Blood trail ends, page 2.
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Grants
San Diego
Calif
Johnny Valdez
Oicer
Billy Cunningham
Mount Taylor
Cibola General Hospital
Wisconsin
Milan
Interstate
Gamerco man sentenced for second-degree murder
Travis James, 29, pleaded guilty to the Aug 1 1999 murder of Ernest Kasuse Jr in a plea deal. He struck Kasuse with a steel flashlight at the Via Motel and killed him, then hit a second victim, Julia Descheny, with the same weapon. Witnesses described a fight. prosecutors said the death was not self defense.
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Gallup
Gamerco
Travis James
Ernest Kasuse Jr
James
Via
Julia
Descheny
Kasuse
Larry Fowler
Court rules in favor of Laughter in Arizona primary bid
Navajo legislator Sylvia Laughter wins from the Arizona Supreme Court to appear on the Democratic primary ballot. The ruling overturns a Maricopa County Superior Court decision that she lacked enough valid signatures. The decision allows counted electors outside party registration as eligible signers, and comes as ballots are set to print for the Sept. 12 primary amid ongoing disputes from opponent Ken Hollock.
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Bill Donovan Diné
Gallup
Arizona Supreme Court
Sylvia Laughter
Arizona
House of Representatives
Maricopa County
Laughter
Lisa Hauser
Supreme Court
Superior Court
Mark Armstrong
Ken Hollock
Page
Hollock
Election panel to shoot for Aug 1 vote on Navajo ballot
WINDOW ROCK The Navajo Nation election dispute centers on an Aug 1 vote for chapter offices and a referendum to cut the council to 24. Eunice Begay, chair of the Board of Election Supervisors, said every effort will be made to hold Aug 1 voting while the council rejected a move to appoint sanctions and shift control to other bodies. The council approved an Aug 7 absentee-ballot deadline and left sanctions available only if the Aug 1 election is not held. The panel's action leaves the dispute unresolved as legal questions and timing loom.
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Jim Maniaciine
Bureau
Window Rock
Navajo Nation
Eunice Begay
Board of Election Supervisors
Inter-Governmental Relations Committee
Legislative Services
George Arthur
Andy Ayre
Kenneth Begay
Ralph Bennett
Leo Gishie
Nelson Gorman
Ernest Hubbell
Norman John
Ervin Keeswood
Wilford Lane
Tom LaPahe
Johnny Naize
Keeswood
Legislative Counsel
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Sylvia Carlson
Crownpoint
Aaron Jim
Jim
Tohatchi
Lake Asanyi
Daniel Thomas
Navajo Police
Jen
Camp Douthes
Deirdre Haskie
Raquel Dennison
Te Asaayi
Tom Purdom
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