Torreon Student Dies After School Bus Accident
An 11 year old Torreon Day School pupil was killed when a school bus backed away and ran over her in the Ojo Encino area. The driver and father, 43 year old Harry Sandoval, stopped and checked for life but she was dead at the scene. Classes were canceled at the Bureau of Indian Affairs school as investigators probed the incident.
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Rock
Torreon Day School
Ojo
Encino
Sherlynin
Sandoval
Harry Sandoval
Navajo Nation
Patrick
Platero
Crownpoint
Bureau’ of Indian
Farmington
Cleanup wraps near end at New Mexico school fire site
Cleanup at the Gallup McKinley County School District elementary fire scene in Navajo New Mexico nears completion. Snow slowed debris removal but reduced dust while crews cut steel and covered the 6000 square foot site. The February fire destroyed the library computer lab and a fifth grade room prompting 35 students to move to the Blue Barn for remodel.
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Navajo, N.M
Angelo DiPaolo
Gallup-McKinley County
DiPaolo
Ernie Foyler
Carl Rich
Pool
Flyers urge racism's end in Gallup
A mystery group has been placing flyers at Rio West Mall and other Gallup locations urging Native Americans to avoid businesses that mistreat them. A second, harsher flyer targets White people with claims of disdain and stereotypes. Hundreds of flyers have appeared around business areas urging Navajos and other Native Americans to resist mistreatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallup
Rio West
Begaye lauds new projects in Tuba City
Navajo President Kelsey Begaye visited Tuba City to support environmental lawsuit families, tour a new fitness center, inspect a historic building renovation for a regional library, and attend a four hour dinner for the Warriors and Lady Warriors. He met privately with affected children to hear how the hazard affected them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuba’ City
Ariz
Kelsey Begaye
Poet Violence not the Navajo way
Crownpoint interview with Esther Belin, a full blooded Navajo who grew up in California, discusses gang violence, identity, language, and her shift to writing poetry. She reflects on upbringing off the reservation, the lure of Hollywood, education, and finding her voice through urban Native American experience.
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Crownpoint
California
Esther Belin
Belin
Los Angeles
University of California, Berkeley
Hollywood
Esther Bélin
Dine” College
Global Peace Walk seeks prayers for world suffering
Japanese monk Yu sen Yamato leads the Global Peace Walk 2000 from San Francisco visiting Window Rock and Gallup to spotlight human suffering and land abuse. The group aims to reach Washington, D.C., then end at the United Nations in New York, amid mixed local reactions.
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Gallup
Yusen Yamato
San Francisco
Global Peace
Window Rock
Yamato
Walk
Crispin Clarke
John Pena
Clarke
Gautam Buddha
United Nations
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Torreon
Jeff Jones
Independent
Dennis Fuhs
Fuhs
Navajo
Begaye Lands
Tuba City
Begaye
Tuba City Medical Center
Linda Honahni
Page
By.s.j. Ludescher
Nicole Goodhue
Zarana Sanghani
Michael Fagans
Masaichi Saiki
Japan
Sky Baba
Humbolt
Calif
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