Political Intrigue in Dinetah

"Dinetah" is the name the locals call the Navajo Nation, the largest reservation in the US:

The dine is what they call themselves (Navajo for "people"). While we drove through the Nation during our Decemberween trip, we stayed in Kayenta (check the map for more detail, like the location of Kayenta, Tuba City, and the tiny hamlet we shopped in while staying in Colorado, Cortez):

I bought a reservation newspaper while we stayed in Kayenta, and read through it with the vicarious view of a mostly informed tourist---informed in terms of knowing structurally what their sovereign government would resemble.

Right on the front page there are three main articles, one with the picture above the fold and story below, on the left; and two on the right, one above the fold and one title above the fold, and all three are connected in various ways.

The story on the left tells the tale of the President and the Vice President's beef, their non-working relationship, about how the VP has accused the President of sexual harassment or misconduct; about howe the President scoffs at those accusations, about how those accusations have arisen from his demands that his VP get work done for the people of the Nation. It tells how the Prez had taken the VP's security detail away, as well as her vehicle. It's pretty crazy.

The top story on the right hand side tells the story of how the Navajo Nation's Attorney General, after completing the investigation into the VP's sexual harassment claims---there were no actions that rose to the level of sexual harassment by the party of the President is the main conclusion---the AG was removed from office by a tight vote of the tribal council.

The article directly below it tells the story of the Nation's first-lady---the President's wife---being appointed the Attorney for Apache County in Arizona. She has acknowledged the peculiarities about the position, especially since the 70% of the county is on the reservation and thus, Navajo Nation land, too. I'm not sure if this matters, but she's not yet 30 years old.

Good for her.

I think this may make for an interesting dramatic movie...Navajo Nation fraying behind the shadow of larger political turmoil; the perseverance of a long forgotten and generally oppressed people amid worse machinations at the federal level...

Maybe just a clearly told story would be captivating enough. I think it makes sense that I may not be the best voice to tell the story...people looking like me have been telling these people's story for far too long.