Abstract

Power Politics and the Navajo

The article focuses on the politics of North American Countries. Since the Navajos were returned from Fort Sumner to their present reservation in Arizona and New Mexico in 1867, they have often had reason to be bewildered by the antics of their guardians, the U.S. people, but probably nothing in their entire experience has seemed quite so confusing as their involvement, in the current complex of world politics. The first of the bizarre series of events was the publication of some disinterested and thoughtful articles in the Denver Post on the tragic plight of the Navajos. The Soviets intervened by giving prominence in their press to the new evidence of Yankee imperialism and oppression of a minority people provided by a leading American newspaper.