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Originally founded in 1959, The Navajo Times was a successor to Adahooniligii, the publication produced by the Navajo Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); unlike Adahooniligii, it would ra...
Originally founded in 1959, The Navajo Times was a successor to Adahooniligii, the publication produced by the Navajo Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); unlike Adahooniligii, it would rarely feature articles written in the Navajo language (DinAc bizaad). At first, the paper functioned as the mouthpiece of the Navajo Tribal Council, reporting related news and reprinting speeches made by the Chairman and Council members. Over time, however, staff would begin to assert their rights to freedom of press, arguing that negative stories were being silenced by the Council. In the 1980s, under editor Mark Trahant, the Times changed its name to the Navajo Times Today and shifted to a daily format, increasing its circulation from 4,000 to 8,000. Tensions over press freedom led to the paper being shut down in 1987, by Navajo Chairman Peter MacDonald. Four months later, when the Times resumed publishing, it was as a weekly.
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- Window Rock, Arizona : Navajo Tribe, 1959-2016
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- online resource : illustrations (black and white, and color)
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- on1102222547
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America was originally published in 2018, as American Indian Newspapers. The title was changed in 2024.
- First few issues published by the Education Committee, Navajo Tribe.
- Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2018. Digitized from copies held by the Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas, Little Rock and made available by AM.
- Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas, Little Rock