The Navajo times.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Navajo Tribe of Arizona, New Mexico & Utah, issuing body.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Indigenous Newspapers in North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navajo Indians--Newspapers.

Navajo Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Weekly, 1987-2016

Place of Publication:

Window Rock, Arizona : Navajo Tribe, 1959-2016.

Summary:

Originally founded in 1959, The Navajo Times was a successor to Adahooniłigii, the publication produced by the Navajo Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); unlike Adahooniłigii, 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.

Notes:

First few issues published by the Education Committee, Navajo Tribe.

Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018. Digitized from a copy held by the Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas, Little Rock and made available by Adam Matthew Digital.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 9, 2019).

OCLC:

1102222547

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.