Abortion protest



Antonio Guimaraes (far right) holds a stop sign Monday as Sig Martinez (far left) leads a group of more than a dozen Catholics in prayer at the downtown walkway on Coal Avenue. The lunch-time prayer was to mark the 28th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Roe v. Wade in 1973.



Ethan Hine (left) and Tannin Cash make snow angels Saturday on Mount Taylor while Bryer Dickens empties snow from his glove while playing in the snow.

Photos by Jeff Jones

 

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Navajo leaders urge forgiveness
MacDonald case spurs plea for healing

Jim Maniaci
Diné Bureau

WINDOW ROCK — Forgiving each other is a start in healing the deep wounds of Navajo society caused by the Peter MacDonald case.

This was the theme echoed by many who issued statements following the former tribal leader's release Saturday from a federal prison in Fort Worth, Tex.

Navajo leaders agreed it is now time for the healing to begin after MacDonald was freed Saturday after serving seven years of a 14-year federal sentence. His sentence was commuted by outgoing president Bill Clinton in one of his last acts before leaving office.

The Navajo central government issued a joint statement by President Kelsey A. Begaye, Vice President Dr. Taylor McKenzie and Council Speaker Edward T. Begay. Also offering comments were council delegates Daniel Peaches, Edison Wauneka and Samuel Billison, plus Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M.

Leaders' comments

Speaker Begay commented, "While there are consequences for one's action, if one is truly sorry, forgiveness sets in."

The speaker added, "The Navajo Nation Council took the first step in 1995 to pardon Mr. MacDonald and it is good to hear that former President Clinton evaluated the release of Mr. MacDonald in his last hours in office. The Navajo Nation went through tremendous turmoil in 1989 and the Navajo people learned a difficult, but important, lesson as a result regarding the importance of the rule of law. And that lesson is that there are consequences if one breaks the law. Elected Navajo Nation officials hold a sacred trust given to us by the Navajo people and if we violate that trust we will be held responsible."

While now-President Kelsey Begaye was Speaker in 1995, the council's resolution asked Clinton to pardon MacDonald for his federal crimes, and at the same time pardoned him of numerous tribal criminal convictions.

The current 19th Council authorized Begaye and McKenzie to spearhead the campaign for the fallen leaders release.

President Begaye said, "It is my plea to the Navajo people that we continue to move forward as a nation, and to respect one another."

Begaye added, "We took advantage of every opportunity to press the issue of releasing Mr. MacDonald with federal and state leaders. We are thankful for the many members of Congress, lobbyists and private citizens who supported the campaign on behalf of Mr. MacDonald."

The president, who is from the Kaibeto Chapter adjacent to MacDonald's home chapter of Toh Nanees Dizi (Tuba City), specifically mentioned Sen Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., Dale E. Kildee, D-Mich., Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., plus Johnston and Associates of Washington, D.C.

Begaye also said, "The Navajo Nation is pleased that former President Clinton looked at the humanitarian issue for the commutation of MacDonald's sentence."

Vice President McKenzie said, "It is great news and I am positive his family is grateful for the action of former President Clinton. There were many office visits in Washington, D.C., New Mexico and Arizona, numerous telephone calls, and many documents produced in our effort to have Mr. MacDonald released."

Delegate Edison Wauneka

Delegate Edison Wauneka was among 32 indicted because of the riot, and along with Board of Election Supervisors Vice Chairwoman LeNora Fulton, had their charges dropped.

The Crystal, Red Lake and Sawmill Chapters' council member said, "We should be forgiving. For the healing process to start there has to be forgiveness. It's the most important thing we need to think about. But the main thing is that he is back with his family."

He added that the only thing he is disappointed about is that three others Donald Benally, Ned McKenzie and Earl Lee remain behind bars.

Delegate Daniel Peaches

Delegate Daniel Peaches said, "He is free at last, but at what cost? There has been a tremendous cost to his health, his dignity and self respect."

The Kayenta and Chil Chin Bito Chapters representative said he tried to convince one of MacDonald's sisters in 1985 to convince her brother not to run, but failed. The delegate said she apparently didn't realize "what sacrifices it takes to be a leader your life, your family, they're not yours to enjoy."

MacDonald won a narrow victory "and there was a deep division among the people. There was no opportunity to address the issues, just to hold onto the office. His downfall was the saddest chapter in Navajo history. His conviction and incarceration were all too painful," Peaches said.

"Now that MacDonald is home, he is in a great position to offer forgiveness to those who were harmed and hurt," he said.

Peaches added, "If politics can ruin a person, this was a good example of it. Politics offers both great opportunities and great sacrifices, and in the case of MacDonald, a great personal ruin. MacDonald needs to find a medicineman and travel with him to all the four sacred mountains and offer prayers."

The delegate concluded, "It is not just MacDonald or his supporters, it is the whole Navajo Nation who needs healing, and only MacDonald can start this healing process. I hope he accepts and acts on this very simple, but very vital, advice."

One of the about a half-dozen Republicans on the council, Peaches also noted the support of the late former Arizona Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater for MacDonald's release.

Delegate Samuel Billison

Delegate Samuel Billison is president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association. The group passed two resolutions in 1998 and 200 asking Clinton to "do all in his power to help one of our member Navajo Code Talkers for sort of release, on in the alternative, to bring him closer to home."

Association representatives met twice with Clinton about the release, in the Punch Bowl, Hawaii, during the V-J (Victory over Japan) Day memorial, and again last year during his visit to Shiprock.

The Kinlichee Chapter's delegate said, "This is a joyous and a great day throughout Navajoland and beyond; President Clinton has commuted the prison sentence of one of the famous Navajo Code Talkers and a great Navajo leader, Mr. Peter MacDonald. The holy people have answered the wishes of the Navajo people."

MacDonald joined the U.S. Marine Corps near the end of World War II, and although trained as one of the approximately 420 Code Talkers, never saw combat action.

Sen. Pete Domenici

The Republican half of New Mexico's pair of senators, Domenici said he supported MacDonald's release, primarily for health and compassion reasons.

"Some time ago, I made requests to the White House for Chairman MacDonald's release based on his health problems and because he had already served so many years far away from his family.

"I'm pleased for his family and many Navajos, who have been waiting a long time for this. He will now be able to live his life close to his family and perhaps get a little health built back into him," Domenici said.

In 1993 MacDonald began serving a 14-year federal sentence for three convictions conspiracy in connection with the deadly July 20, 1989, riot by about 200 stick-wielding supporters in Window Rock who attempted to storm a finance building resulting in two civilians being shot to death and several police officers being injured, along with two kickback-bribes in the tribe's Big Boquillas Ranch purchase in northern Arizona in which he and two partners made a quick $6 million.

The four-time tribal chairman served more than seven years, being under medical treatment when the 42nd U.S. President included the former Navajo Code Talker among his three dozen commutations of sentences. In his early 70s, MacDonald suffers from diabetes, had a heart attack and underwent a quadruple bypass operation two years ago.

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Kayenta says health care top concern
Kennedy listens to needs

Larry Di Giovanni
Staff Writer

KAYENTA, Ariz. — When the young, red-haired Rhode Island congressman walked into each building here Thursday, the reaction was the same: pleasant surprise, a sales pitch and gratitude for his interest.

"A Kennedy, right in our pharmacy. This is wonderful," said chief pharmacist Ron Chapman of Kayenta Health Center, greeting U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy.

Kennedy, 33, is the son of Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy.

As he did on all his Kayenta stops first the Kayenta Senior Center, then the Head Start Office, Kayenta Community School and Kayenta Health Center Kennedy asked as many employees as possible what their greatest needs are. A prescription drug program for the elderly would be nice, Chapman said.

Dr. Chris Percy, who works with the Navajo Area Indian Health Service's Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Program, said putting disease prevention on a more equal footing with actual care would be a beneficial change.

On the reservation, per patient health care spending works out to $1,400 per year through IHS, Percy said. Off reservation, it works out to $4,000 per person, and Percy added that the gap needs to close.

Helen Bonnaha, a local health board member, said doctors instruct Navajos with Type 2 diabetes, a major health condition facing all ages of Navajos, to change their dietary habits. However, diabetics cannot refrigerate their food without electricity, she said.

Kennedy has chronic asthma and takes several medications daily for his condition. He visited the Havasupai and Walapai tribes before Thursday's trip, describing the Walapai health center pharmacy as "smaller than my cupboard."

"It is absolutely a crying shame ... imagine people who don't have access to these very basic medications," he said.

Starting his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, Kennedy was recently named to the House Appropriations Committee, which oversees some tribally connected funds including IHS. Thursday was his first visit to the Navajo Nation.

Though Kayenta is a Navajo boomtown, bringing in business revitalization and expansion through a unique township operation, the town suffers from underfunding familiar to most large Navajo communities.

It needs a new senior center. A trailer serves as a Head Start preschool office, located between the senior center and chapter house. Head Start classrooms are possible only due to the lending of rooms by the nearby primary school. Head Start has one of the longst waiting lists of any tribally operated program.

Touring the aging Kayenta Community School, a contract school that was until recently a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, chief administrator Loren Joseph informed Kennedy that many of its buildings are "sinking" into the ground. One of the buildings, a dormitory, is scheduled for replacement.

"My role today is to just walk around, to meet people," Kennedy said, while his two aides, chief of staff Tony Marcella and Matthew Braunstein, took notes.

Kennedy is the founder of the Native American Caucus. Following a moving presentation at the senior center, he pledged to stay in touch with the Diné people. He said he would like to revisit the Navajo Nation in the near future.

Later Thursday, Kennedy visited Monument Valley, Utah, where he met with a woman, Elsie Mae Begay, who grew up in a radioactive "uranium home." The continuation of adverse health impacts caused by uranium and suffered by Navajos is a major concern of Kennedy's.

Kennedy continues a family legacy of helping Native Americans. He visited the reservation at the invitation of Navajo EPA Director Derrith Watchman Moore and her top staff members, who accompanied him throughout the day.

"It's not beyond any of our reach to do the right thing," he said. "And unfortunately, not everybody, as we've learned throughout the history of our country, does the right thing."

Kennedy said he would have relished being an adult in the 1960s, when his uncles, President John F. Kennedy and his Attorney General brother Robert F. Kennedy were advancing important social causes along with Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez and others.

"I wasn't around then. But I'm around now."

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Acoma breaks ground for new homes

Tara Drolma
Staff Writer

GRANTS — A ceremony broke ground Monday for a 61-unit development of modern homes conceived, designed and built by the new Pueblo of Acoma Housing Authority.

Cyrus Toll, Grants management specialist for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), said the project "is one of the first projects this size in the country" implemented under the new Indian housing law, the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA).

Raymond Concho, executive director with the Pueblo of Acoma Housing Authority, said the 1937 Housing Act provided money for the cities. It was not until 1967 that an amendment to that act included Indian housing.

Concho said under the old law the tribe had to get a Bureau of Indian Affairs-approved standard lease to build housing and the BIA was responsible for the environmental studies. The new law gives the tribe the authority to create a tribal housing authority and bypass the BIA.

For centuries the tribes have passed land to the people by traditional land assignments. Concho said today the tribes are going back to the traditional way.

The Acoma Housing Authority did the environmental review for the subdivision. Concho said it was able to complete all of the necessary studies within one year. If they had waited for HUD to do the study it would have taken much longer. Now the housing authority has the in-house expertise to complete the environmental reviews for future projects.

Providing housing on the pueblo is a challenge, Concho said. For many of the families, the new homes mean they will be able to return to the pueblo after renting homes and apartments in nearby communities.

One woman said she could have purchased a home sooner, but she has been renting in Milan and Grants for 13 years while she waited for a chance to own a home on the reservation where she works.

The land the homes are built on is tribal land given to the people as a land allotment. However, the new homes will be financed and a portion of the monthly payment will be used to pay administrative costs for the program.

Concho said once the owners have paid $25,000 equity into the homes they would be given the title. He said the difficult part would be if there were foreclosures. The land allotments have been in families for generations and if there is a foreclosure the family will lose the allotment. However, the extended family members would be given the first opportunity to assume the loan from their relatives so that the allotment would remain in the family.

Gov. Cyrus Chino told the group gathered for the ceremony at the tribal auditorium that the housing development is the first project for the Pueblo of Acoma Housing Authority where it had complete oversight of the project. He called it a "significant milestone."

Chino said the three-, four- and five-bedroom homes break the "HUD cookie cutter." He commended the professionalism of the people involved in designing homes "applicable to our situation."

The homes in this project are targeted for low-income families and Chino said there is a need for new housing programs for families that have a good, stable income and employment record.

The challenge in the future would be to find funding for the next project of 61 homes. Chino outlined three possible sources of funding: low-income tax credits, bond financing, and the HUD funding formula should be challenged and changed.

Concho said the funding formula under NAHASDA allocates $1 million per year to Acoma. He said the current project would cost $6.8 million. Concho said the National American Indian Housing Council will meet in Washington in a couple of weeks and the governor will attend those meetings. One of Chino's agendas will be to lobby to change the formula.

The housing council has a national agenda to find financing for Native American housing projects. It wants to educate lenders that the time has come when they can do business with Indian families on trust lands. He said Acoma is talking with New Mexico banks, encouraging them to work with Indian families.

Part of the charge of the Acoma Housing Authority is to provide information and budget counseling to families so they can get credit at banks.

The homes will be built just off Route 32 south of the new Public Safety Facility and west of the current Skyline Homes subdivision.

There are three different floor plans for the three-, and four-bedroom homes. The five-bedroom homes come in two different floor plans. With all of the floor plans the purchasers have the choice of a pitched roof or a gently sloped "flat" roof. The smaller homes are around 1300 square feet and the five-bedroom homes boast 1,800 square feet. They are designed for the larger, extended families that may have a grandparent living with them.

The contractor is Evans South West, Inc., a Phoenix company that has 20 years' experience building Native American housing. The owner, Chris Evans, said he hopes to complete the homes by April 2002.

The Arctic Slope Consulting Group, an Alaska Native owned company with offices in Albuquerque, will be responsible for contract inspections during construction.

The project has been a team effort that spanned several tribal administrations and involved many people. Appreciation was given the Tribal Council and past Gov. Lloyd Tortalita for their efforts.

Timothy Chavez, chairman of the Board of Commissioners for the housing authority, thanked Derek Valdo Sr. for his work in 1996 to apply for the funds. He said the plans were for 21 homes at first, but Valdo worked to get additional funding to expand the project to 61 homes.

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Athletes of the week

Santiago Ramos and Michael Peretti
Staff Sports Writers

The Athletes for the week of Jan. 8-15 are Pine Hill Warrior Urian Maria and Ganado Lady Hornet Melissa Jones.

"It feels great," Maria said of being selected for the honor. "I owe it all to my teammates and my coach, without them none of this would be possible."

Maria, a senior at Pine Hill High School and a fourth-year varsity player, said he hopes he can build on this and have more
success. At the beginning of the year he said he did not start out very good, but has improved along with his team.

"I started out the year a little slow, but have started to play better and we have come together as a team."
Maria scored 11 points in the Warriors district opening win against Rehoboth 53-36 last week and then led the Warriors with 32
points in a 73-61 win over Ramah on Saturday.

Maria said his main goal for the season is to be successful, as well as defend the team's district championship. "We have done pretty good so far, but I am looking forward to the rest of the district games," he said.

Maria is looking foward to playing Gallup Catholic Thursday. The Panthers area also undefeated in District 6A.

"That should be a pretty good challenge," he said. "I guess they are picked to come out of the district as champions, so I am looking forward to playing against them."

Maria said he hopes to go to state again and do well, and then go on to play for a small college, possibly Western New Mexico.
To add to all of the success of his season, Maria was also picked as the homecoming king Saturday night at Pine Hill's homecoming game.

Greyhills boys edge Ganado

Santiago Ramos
Staff Sports Writer

GANADO, Ariz. — Greyhills sank 21-of-27 free throws including a pair on a technical in the fourth period to post its first conference win of the season in edging out Ganado 50-49 Monday night in a 3A Enchantment Conference matchup before a sparse crowd.

In the girls game, Ganado shook off a slow start to down Greyhills 61-45.

Greyhills will travel to Monument Valley tonight before hosting Tuba City Thursday and Ganado Saturday. Ganado entertains
Tuba City tonight and Window Rock Wednesday.

Boys Greyhills 50, Ganado 49

Free throw shooting fueled Greyhills' first conference win of the season.

The Knights sank 21-of-27 free throws including a pair on a technical while the Hornets, who lost two starters, Cody Mueller
and Lavon Salabye on fouls, sank 7-of-13.

The game was close throughout with a total of 14 lead changes and nine ties.

Greyhills held a 44-40 lead with just over five minutes left in the game when a technical was called on Ganado coach Dave Freeman who was protesting the tight calls being made by the officials.

Greyhills junior guard Uriah Yazzie sank both free throws that gave the Knights a six-point lead, 46-40.

The Hornets, now 1-4 in conference play with seven games left, trimmed the Knight lead down to two on scores by junior guard Lavon Salabye and senior forward Jay Taliman.

A free throw by Darwin Yazzie made it a three-point game before Salabye nailed a game-tying trey. Ganado grabbed the lead for the final time by two points on single free throws by Neilson Nez and Salabye. Greyhills made it a one-point game on a free throw by Yazzie with 27 seconds left.

The Knights came up with a crucial steal by Peterson George with 20 seconds left who was promptly fouled. George sank both free throws that pushed Greyhills back on top, 50-49.

Then Hornet Taliman traveled with the ball with 16 seconds left and Greyhills also turned the ball over with eight seconds left in the game on another traveling call.

With less than four seconds in the game, Lavon Salabye was fouled by Yazzie. However Salabye missed the 1-and-1 and the ball was rebounded by Greyhills' Yazzie as time ran out.

"We're capable of being in the top four in the conference," said Greyhills coach Mark Ruybal of his Knights who improve to 9-12 overall, 1-5 in conference play. "The kids are still young. I start three sophomores and two juniors and the first two players off the bench are a junior and a sophomore. I'm being real patient with them, teaching them the concepts of the game."

Ganado coach Dave Freeman, who was whistled for a technical in the final period that led to a pair of crucial free throws, was miffed by the officiating.

"I couldn't even coach," Freeman said. "He (the official) wouldn't let me get up (off the bench). I was afraid to even call a timeout. We should have won the game. It (the officiating) was bad on both sides. I teach my kids an aggressive style of defense so it hurt us. We didn't take advantage of our chances when we needed to. We were all frustrated. But we have to focus for all four quarters. The kids are trying hard."

Ruybal agreed about the tight calls.

"The referees were calling it tight," Ruybal said. "That forces coaches to teach fundamentals more. And I was proud of the way they called the game."

Ganado had the edge from the field, shooting 45 percent (18-of-40) while Greyhills shot just 33 percent (12-of-36). The Hornets also had the advantage from long range, hitting on 6-of-14 treys for 43 percent while the Knights made 3-of-12 for 25 percent.

From the charity stripe, Greyhills sank 21-of-27 free throws for 78 percent while Ganado was 7-of-13 for 54 percent.

Uriah Yazzie led Greyhills with 19 points and two treys while Craig Poorthunder chipped in 10 points.

Ganado's top scorers were Jay Taliman and Lavon Salabye each with 13 points.

Girls Ganado 61, Greyhills 45

Ganado, 3-2 in conference play, shook off a sluggish start against Greyhills, winless in conference play at 0-5.

Ganado struggled to maintain a 14-12 first period before getting untracked with a quick 11-0 run. Ganado sophomore forward Melissa Peterson had the hot hand from long range as she buried three consecutive three-pointers for a 25-12 cushion. Greyhills broke a four-minute scoring drought on Frances Joe's inside score.

The Lady Hornets nursed their lead to 17 points, 33-16 before taking a 13-point lead at intermission after Greyhills' sophomore forward Rayetta Farrell, who led the Lady Knights with 17 points, drilled a last-second trey off the glass.

Ganado pushed its lead to 20 points to end the third period, 45-25, as Greyhills was able to hit on just 1-of-11 shots from the field.

Ganado senior post Melissa Jones, who led all scorers with 23 points along with three treys, gunned in her second and third treys of the game at the start of the final period. Peterson, who finished with 14 points along with three treys, sank 4-of-5 free throws as Ganado grabbed its largest lead of the game at 30 points, 57-27, with just over five minutes left.

Greyhills' Marisa Chee scored four of the next five buckets for the Lady Knights as Greyhills closed the final margin to 16 points, 61-45.

"I told them to move the ball," said Ganado coach Gwynn Grant whose team must play a tough two-week schedule of eight conference games. "Once they started going they started attacking."

Ganado was coming off a stunning 15-point win over Monument Valley on the road Friday night, its first ever win over the Lady Mustangs.

"We just came out hard and strong," Grant said. "We hit our shots early and we took it to them. We played tough defense."

Ganado had three players in double figures with Melissa Jones with a game-high 23 points with three treys with Melissa Peterson with 14 points and three treys and Jolene Benally with 10.

Greyhill's leading scorers were Rayetta Farrell with 17 points and two treys and Marisa Chee with 14 points.

Ganado outrebounded Greyhills 31-19 with Jones with seven rebounds and Peterson with six.

Ganado hit on 21-of-50 shots from the field for 42 percent shooting while Greyhills made 17-of-41 for 41 percent. From long range, the Lady Hornets shot 29 percent, 7-of-24, while the Lady Knights were 4-of-8 for 50 percent.

Weekend games

TUBA CITY, Ariz. - The Window Rock Lady Scouts split a pair of 3A Enchantment Conference games over the weekend on the road.

Window Rock downed Greyhills 63-41 Saturday after losing to Tuba City 68-48 Friday night.

Against Greyhills, Window Rock trailed 12-5 after the opening period before rallying in the second period to tie the game at the half, 22-all. Window Rock, 9-7 overall, 2-3 in conference, outscored Greyhills 22-4 in the third period that keyed the win.

Window Rock was led by Roberta Haskie with 17 points as 10 of the 12 players broke into the scoring column.

Greyhills' top scorers were Rayetta Farrell with 11 and Marisa Chee with 10.

Against Tuba City, the game was tied at 10-all after the first period before the Lady Warriors grabbed a 36-30 halftime lead.
Tuba City increased its lead to 53-40 before winning by 20 points, 68-48.

Tuba City had four players in double figures with Jayme Lomakema with 20 points, Sharlimar Navaho 15, Amy North 14 and
Nicole Tsingine 11.

Window Rock's Haskie again led the way with 12 points.

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U.S. proposes to allow Hopis to gather eagles

New York Times News Service

Among a flood of last-minute actions by the Clinton administration late last week was a proposal to allow the Hopis to gather hatchling golden eagles from nests at a national monument in Arizona for an ancient sacrificial ritual.

A draft rule allowing the practice, which is opposed by many animal protection and environmental groups, had been on hold for months while lawyers at the Department of the Interior weighed laws protecting Indian religious freedoms and those protecting parks and birds of prey.

The final draft was submitted Thursday and was to be published in the Federal Register this week, leading to 60 days of public comment...

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Lundstrom lands choice assignment

Tanya Brazil
Staff writer

GALLUP — One of Gallup's newest legislators has already scored a major victory in her first week on the job.

State Rep. Patty Lundstrom, D-McKinley County, said she was excited to learn that she had been appointed to the House Appropriations and Finance Committee, an assignment she had hoped to get.

"I think this is good for Gallup because this is the major money committee," she said. "This is the committee that hears all requests for money and all state budgets run through this committee. We've already started hearing budget requests..."

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Deaths

Ray Hardy

GANADO, Ariz. — Services for Ray Hardy, 43, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, at Glory Temple Ministries, Ganado. Pastor Sam Begay will officiate. Burial will follow at Ganado Community Cemetery.

Visitation will be held one hour before services.

Hardy died Jan. 18 in Tse Bonito. He was born Oct. 12, 1957, in Ganado into the Towering House Clan for the Edge Water People Clan.

Hardy attended Ganado High School. He was employed as a heavy equipment operator, grade checker and foreman for various construction companies. His hobbies included baseball and basketball.

Survivors include his wife, Grace Bia of Tse Bonito; son, Allen Harragarra; brothers, Frank Hardy Sr., Howard Hardy Jr., Silvantis Hardy Sr., Arthur Hardy Sr. and Dennis Lincoln; sisters, Lorretta Martin and Danita Benally; stepfather Daniel
Lincoln, and one grandchild.

Hardy was preceded in death by his parents, Howard Hardy Sr. and Margaret Lincoln; sister, Alberta Wilson; and
grandmother, Annabelle Hardy.

Pallbearers will be Bryan Hardy, Allen Harragarra, Ernie Bennett, Ernest Begay, Myron Smith, Anthony Sarrell and Lyndell
Martin.

The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Frank and Beverly Hardy's residence following services.

Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Clara Smith

TOHATCHI — Services for Clara Smith, 46, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, at Full Gospel Church, Sheep
Springs. Pastor Gladstone W. Simmons will officiate. Burial will follow at Sheep Springs Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 3-5 p.m. today, Jan. 23, at Cope Memorial Chapel.

Smith died Jan. 16 in Tohatchi. She was born Dec. 1, 1954, in Shiprock into the Towering House Clan for the Water's Edge Clan.

Smith attended Naschitti Boarding School, Chuska Boarding School, Wingate High School and Rockland Institute, Phoenix.
She was employed by American Bar, Ted's Pawn Shop, Downtown California Superama, Shalimar Lounge and Cedar Hills Grocery & Liquor. She was a member of the Gallup All Nations Seventh Day Adventist Church, Gallup. Her hobbies included sewing and reading books.

Survivors include her son, Dana Martin; daughters, Alexis Martin and LaCora Martin, all of Naschitti; and sisters, Marie S.
Pino of Alamo, Ella Smith-Lee of Sheep Springs and Joanne Hoskins of Augusta, Ga.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Anderson and Rose C. Watchman.

Pallbearers will be Wilton Watchman, Rolland Hinkins, Gilfred Martin, Ira Pino Sr., Marcus Pino and Anderson Pino.

Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Larry Nez

Red Valley, Ariz. — Services for Larry Nez, 47, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, at the Christ the King Catholic Church, Shiprock. Father John Paul Sauter will officiate. Burial will follow at Shiprock Cemetery.

Visitation will be held 2-7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, at Chapel of Memories Funeral Home. A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Chapel of Memories.

Nez died Jan. 21 in Shiprock. He was born Feb. 6, 1953, near Mitten Rock, Ariz., into the Bitterwater Clan for the Tabahe Clan.

Nez was a rancher. He was employed with BHP and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Survivors inlclude his wife, Gloria Nez of Shiprock; sons, Leon Nez and Shawn Nez, both of Shiprock; daughters, Georgianna Nez-Duncan and Shawna Lynn Nez, both of Shiprock; mother, Mary Jean Beyale of Shiprock; brother, Nelson Nez of Shiprock; sisters, Stella Mae Henderson of Salt Lake City, Utah, Lena Nez of Shiprock and Grace Yazzie of Kirtland; and three grandchildren.

Nez was preceded in death by his father, Keeda H. Nez and a grandson.