Hopis arrest 5 Navajos for trespassing
Jim Maniaci
Diné Bureau
WINDOW ROCK — Hopi Rangers arrested five Navajos this week,
charging them with trespassing on Hopi-Partitioned Land.
Cause of the incident was the Benally family's insistence on holding
a Lakota (Sioux) Sun Dance ceremony without prior Hopi approval.
Claire Heywood, the Hopi tribal spokeswoman, said those arrested
were Louise Benally, described as a part-time resident of Hopi
Range Unit 262; Ruth Benally, full-time resident of Hopi Range
Unit 262; Elvira Horseherder, a Navajo-Partitioned Land resident,
and Ruth Benally's daughter; Joella Ashkie, full-time resident
with her mother of Hopi Range Unit 262; and Pauline Whitesinger,
a full-time resident of Hopi Range Unit 259.
Louise Benally, Ashkie and Whitesinger did not sign 75-year leases,
known as accommodation agreements, with the Kykotsmovi government.
The Hopis call them "non-signers," while Navajos call
them "resisters."
Ruth Benally signed the lease and Horseherder is a relocatee.
Navajo President Kelsey A. Begaye's legal adviser, Karen Bernally,
said Friday afternoon about the Big Mountain incident, "To
our knowledge, the five individuals who had been detained have
been released on their own recognizance."
She added that Begaye and Hopi Tribal Chairman Wayne Taylor talked
about the incident briefly in Flagstaff on Friday during their
regular monthly meeting.
"We must note that under the specifications of the accommodation
agreements, there is a judicial process that now has to be followed.
We have to allow that process to take its course," Bernally
said.
She said Begaye and his staff are reviewing the situation "and
we will report further as comprehensive information becomes available."
Bernally's statement admitted, "The accommodation agreements
require Navajo families to secure approval by the Hopi Tribe to
conduct certain ceremonial practices. From our understanding the
Sun Dance ceremonial performances (the incident in question) have
been taking place in the Big Mountain region for quite some time
for more than 10 years now and were not always part of the ceremonial
practices requiring Hopi approval. However, in more recent years,
the Hopi Tribe has required approval for the Sun Dance ceremony
to occur."
Hopi spokeswoman Heywood's statement said the last approval was
three years ago, and it was given with an explicit condition that
the 1998 ceremony would be the final one on Hopi land.
"Once again groups of Navajo resisters living illegally on
Hopi-Partitioned Land (HPL) and their friends are flouting the
laws of the Hopi Tribe this time under the guise of participating
in a religious ceremony," Heywood said. She said Ruth Benally
signed in acknowledgment of Taylor's July 7, 1998, letter.
More than 100 people set up camp about seven miles north of the
Rocky Ridge Boarding School, announcing they will stay until the
ceremony is completed.
But Hopi Rangers set up roadblocks, and most people are turning
back voluntarily, according to Acting Navajo Law Enforcement Chief
Captain Francis Bradley.
Bradley said pamphlets are being distributed warning people they
are subject to arrest if they go to the camp and take part in
the ceremony. Bradley said Navajo police continue to monitor the
situation and would go onto Hopi land only if invited in a mutual
aid emergency situation.
Heywood said, "It is clear that Hopi law requires such a
permit and the Benallys, as well as others seeking to use the
HPL, have been repeatedly reminded of this fact."
Taylor's Chief of Staff Eugene Kaye reinforced that by saying,
"We issued the 1998 permit as a goodwill gesture and clearly
stated that it was to be the last Sun Dance held on the Hopi Reservation."
Hopi Land Team Chairman Cedric Kuwaninvaya responded to allegations
that the Hopi Tribe is violating the Sun Dance participants' religious
freedom by saying, "The Hopi Tribe's objections to this Sun
Dance have nothing to do with the religious aspects of the ceremony.
We are opposed to this ceremony taking place on Hopi land against
our wishes. Just like any other government or landowner, the Hopi
Tribe has the right to regulate the use of its land by requiring
permits and by objecting to any use which violates Hopi laws."
Kuwaninvaya said the alleged trespass violates Hopi sovereignty.
He also said the medicine man for 2001 Sun Dance, Joseph Chasing
Horse, is a Sioux and should know that the Lakota ceremony requires
the land owner's permission.
Hopi Chief Ranger Mervin Yoyetewa alleges that John Benally, a
member of the host family, verbally threatened to shoot Hopi officers,
or anyone else, who would try to stop the dance.
"It is remarkable that a participant in a ceremony, the supposed
purpose of which is to promote peace and solidarity, would issue
such threats of violence," Yoyetewa said.
Part of the route to the ceremony on the east side of Big Mountain
in known as the Turquoise Trail and it is near the Hard Rock Chapter,
one of the most isolated on the Navajo Reservation.
People who want to attend an undisputed Sun Dance can go to another
one being hosted by the Leland Begay family in the Sagebrush Springs
area 4.5 miles south of Pinon.
A family member said the purification ceremonies will be held
July 15-18, with a tree ceremony on the 18th, and the actual sun
dances the 19th-22nd.
No cameras or recorders of any kind are allowed, as the Sacred
Mountain Sun Dance is a highly traditional observance.
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Bullet-riddled doors taken to thrift
shop
Andrea Egger
Staff Writer
GALLUP — Besides finding a bullet in a toilet, a local thrift
store owner has three doors containing bullet holes from the Robert
Kiro trailer.
Don Chavez, owner of F & R Market, was not very talkative Friday
about the doors, except to say that they have bullet holes on them.
Investigator Gary Wagner with the New Mexico Public Defender's Office's
Capital Crimes Division said Chavez told him Thursday that he had
two more doors, but they had to be destroyed because they were so
bullet-ridden that they could not be fixed up and resold. Chavez would
not confirm this.
Kiro, 34, is being held without bond at the McKinley County Adult
Detention Center after a May 30 shoot-out with police during which
Gallup Police Cpl. Larry Brian Mitchell was killed by a bullet that
entered his body in the left shoulder area underneath the bulletproof
vest and exited underneath his right arm.
The shooting occurred after a nine-hour stand-off with Kiro, which
was precipitated by an argument Kiro had with his girlfriend, Julie
Montoya, during which Kiro reportedly waved a gun at Montoya and their
daughter, Tasha.
The defense believes it's possible a Gallup police officer's bullet
killed Mitchell. The defense ballistics expert, Nelson Welch of Rio
Rancho, found 17 bullets, mostly 9 mm bullets and at least one .45-caliber
bullet, missed by the state police in its investigation in the trailer.
Wagner said an evidence document from the police shows police collected
a .45-caliber handgun from the trailer shortly after the shooting.
Police used 9 mm guns in the shooting.
Wagner said he couldn't believe police and the District Attorney's
Office allowed the doors from the Kiro home to be destroyed or given
to a thrift store.
"I can't believe the police didn't tag them as evidence,"
Wagner said.
State Police Sgt. Darrel Kindig of the Criminal Investigations Division
in Albuquerque could not be reached for comment Friday.
Capt. Glenn Thomas of Gallup said trajectory tests were performed
on every bullet hole found in the home when the Criminal Investigations
team was in Gallup. Photographs also were taken.
"At some point, you have to draw the line at what you take as
evidence," Thomas said.
Chavez also found a bullet in one of the toilets taken from the Kiro
home. He was cleaning one of the toilets and upended the toilet to
empty the water.
The bullet fell out of the toilet.
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Battle over police reports heads to
court
Paper ready to sue city
Bill Donovan
Staff Writer
GALLUP — The battle between the Gallup Independent and the city
of Gallup over police reports relating to the Robert Kiro incident
is apparently on its way to the courts.
City Manager David Ruiz said Friday that after talking with attorneys
for the New Mexico State Police and the McKinley County District Attorney's
office, he decided he could not release the Kiro incident report.
The day before, at his weekly press conference, Ruiz said he had no
problems himself in releasing the report and at that time, the expectation
was that the report would be released sometime Thursday or Friday.
But City Attorney Lynn Isaacson, who received a copy of the 152-page
report from state police late Thursday morning, said he could not
recommend its release, again after talking with State Police and the
District Attorney's Office.
The incident report deals with the events surrounding the standoff
at Kiro's trailer May 30 and the shooting death of Gallup Police Cpl.
Larry Brian Mitchell. The report is the one that was generated by
police right after the incident.
Gallup Independent Publisher Bob Zollinger said he couldn't understand
why the police are refusing to turn over the document since state
law, in his opinion, clearly states that the report is a public document
and has to be released.
A number of reasons have been given in recent days for not turning
over the document.
State police officials, who are conducting an investigation of the
case, contend releasing the report would jeopardize that investigation.
Others claim all witnesses to the incident have not been interviewed
as yet, and therefore, police do not want to cloud their perception
of what happened by having reports in the paper from other witnesses.
In a letter to Ruiz on Friday, District Attorney Karl Gillson said
he was "urging" city officials not to release the report.
"I am gravely concerned that the release of these reports will
seriously compromise the ongoing investigation and prosecution (of
the Kiro case) and (will) also jeopardize Mr. Kiro's right to a fair
and impartial jury trial in McKinley County," he said in his
letter. The bottom line, however, is that Isaacson as well as the
state police and the District Attorney's Office do not believe that
the incident report sought by the Independent is a public document
and therefore doesn't need to be released.
One reason why this is in dispute is that a lawsuit over releasing
incident reports has never made its way to a state court, so there
is no court ruling to guide either side.
The Independent got into a heated dispute with Gillson's predecessor,
Mary Helen Baber, over the same issue when her office advised against
the release of the incident report in the case of Johnny Caballero
who this week pleaded guilty to three counts of vehicular homicide.
Caballero was charged in the death of three members of a Navajo, N.M.,
family after his vehicle struck theirs in the aftermath of a police
chase on Route 66.
After weeks of discussion and threats of a lawsuit, the incident report
was finally released.
"The thing I don't understand," Zollinger said, "is
that we can get incident reports on everything but in cases where
police officers are involved. Either an incident report is a public
report or it is not."
Zollinger said he's certain that the document is a public record and
is willing to take the matter to state court since if the paper wins,
the city will not only have to pay its own legal fees, but the legal
fees for the Independent and the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government
(FOG). FOG joins in these kinds of disputes to see that public agencies
comply with the state Inspection of Public Records Act.
Zollinger estimated that the paper's legal fees alone would be in
the area of $15,000 to $20,000.
"If our costs are in that range, FOG's attorneys will be about
the same as will Isaacson's," he said. "The city could eventually
be looking at paying between $45,000 and $60,000 on this."
Ruiz said Friday that he realized the city could be liable but pointed
out that the state police and the District Attorney's Office were
telling him that releasing the documents could hurt Kiro's prosecution.
"I'm right in the middle of this," he said.
On Friday morning, Ruiz decided that one way to resolve the impasse
was for him to review the report himself, and a copy of the report
was sent to his office. It was at that time he learned, for the first
time, that it was 152 pages.
He told Zollinger late in the morning that he would read the report
and make a determination himself about whether the report would hurt
the prosecution. That afternoon, however, he said that he wasn't an
attorney and couldn't make that determination and had to rely on what
the state police and District Attorney's Office was telling him.
Zollinger said that Ruiz was getting bad advice.
"Isaccson doesn't have anything to lose on this," Zollinger
said. "By telling the city not to release the report, his firm
will generate $15,000 or more in fees. When they lose, it will be
the city and not his law firm that will be paying."
As for the state police, Zollinger said he has been informed that
their attorneys don't want anything released ever. And since the paper
is suing the city and not the state police, the state has no liability
in this as well.
Ruiz has argued that if the Independent sues anyone, it should be
the state police, since all of the records were turned over to them
for their investigation. Or the newspaper should go after the District
Attorney's Office and leave the city out of it.
But Zollinger said that since the city police generated the reports,
the suit will be filed against the city and it will be city taxpayers
who will foot the bill if the Independent wins.
Zollinger said he has already been in touch with his attorney and
the matter should be in state court by early next week.
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Diamondbacks make it into final field
of three
N.M. AABC Roberto Clemente State Tournament
Carrie Loretto
Sports Editor
GALLUP — And then there was one.
Only one Gallup team remained in the N.M. AABC Roberto Clemente State
Tournament after the Dodgers and Rockies were eliminated at the end
of Friday's third and fourth rounds at Veteran's Memorial Complex.
The Gallup Diamondbacks made it through to Saturday's final field
with a 6-4 win over the Espanola Diamondbacks. The Rockies, who went
into the third round still in the winner's bracket lost to Las Cruces,
then had to turn around and face Grants in the loser's bracket last
night.
The Grants Pirates eliminated both the Dodgers (19-8) and Rockies
(14-3) to stay alive in the double-elimination tournament.
Today's tournament games were moved up to 10 a.m. after afternoon
rains between sessions yesterday prompted tournament officials to
take that into consideration for today's fourth and fifth rounds which
were originally scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
Las Cruces, the tournament's only unbeaten team, will face the Gallup
Diamondbacks. A Gallup win would leave three teams with one loss.
Since all three would have played each other, a bye would then be
drawn for with the winner advancing into the championship game and
the other two having to square off for the right to keep playing.
A win by Las Cruces would pit the
Cardinals against Grants at noon.
With only three teams from outside Gallup entered in the eight-team
tournament after Farmington was classified as its own region thereby
getting its own tournament the bracket was loaded with five Gallup
teams.
Percentages weren't enough to keep Gallup out of the loser's bracket
as Las Cruces and Grants hitters continued to blast off the pitching
machine. In the first round, the machine was set to deliver pitches
at 34 miles per hour, the speed the Gallup league teams were used
to hitting. However, tournament officials changed the speed to AABC
regulation 42 miles per hour for the
second round and the Gallup teams felt the impact.
However, extra batting practice prior to their elimination game helped
the Diamondbacks put together a more consistent offensive performance
and they survived a late-game rally by Espanola.
Meanwhile, Grants continued to pound the ball seemingly at will. The
Pirates pounded out 22 hits highlighted by Eddie Gonzalez' second
homerun blast in the tournament in their 3 1/2 inning victory over
the Dodgers.
Gallup 6, Espanola 4
The Diamondbacks (18-2) scored first in the bottom of the first inning
Jesse Sanchez singled into rightfield with one out then beat shortstop
Ross Duran's underhanded toss to second base on P.J. Gutierrez' hit.
Sanchez then scored on the next play when Gutierrez overran second
base on Christopher Trujillo's hit that had been booted towards the
first base line by the pitcher. Espanola attempted to throw Gutierrez
out at second allowing Sanchez to score.
With two outs, Tey Sanchez loaded the bases after the shortstop bobbled
the ball long enough for all runners to advance safely, but the runners
were left stranded when the next batter struck out.
Gallup began to pull away in the second inning, opening up a 5-0 advantage.
Paul Ray Meese led off with a triple that got past centerfielder Nicholas
Castanon. He then scored on the next hit by Matthew Hannah to the
pitcher when the catcher dropped the throw on the fielder's choice
play. Both Hannah and Sanchez scored on back-to-back RBI doubles by
Sanchez and Trujillo.
Chris Grano continued the two-out rally, scoring when the throw to
first base was too high on an infield hit by Chris Grano.
Meese again scored in the third inning. He doubled and ran home on
Hanna's single that bounced into center field as Gallup went ahead
6-0.
Espanola finally scored in the fifth inning when Brandon Bigcrow ripped
the ball into leftfield, then scored when the pitcher was overthrown.
Espanola then got three runs on a hit into centerfield by Ross Duran
that knocked in Justin Duran and Joaquin Shoeppner.
Duran was rounding third on the play when the ball reached the pitcher
drawing mild protest that the baserunner wasn't halfway to home which
would have sent him back to third base. However, the umpire didn't
share that judgement and the run counted bringing Espanola within
two runs 6-4.
Grants Pirates 19, Gallup Dodgers 8
The Dodgers (10-6) took a short-lived 1-0 lead in the first inning.
Zach Shank singled to trigger a two-out rally which resulted in the
game's first run. John Tafoya followed Shank with a bouncer up the
middle to put runners at first and third. Jessie Garcia also sent
another bouncer up the middle, knocking in Shank for a 1-0 lead.
A shaky defensive start erased the advantage in the bottom of the
first.
Benny Murrietta and Brittney Melonas popped up in the infield, but
pitcher Derick Romero couldn't hang on to the first one and Melonas'
was a high pop up midway between home and the pitching circle and
dropped in front of a diving Romero.
The Pirates then erupted for three straight extra-base hits capped
by a two-run inside-the-park homerun to rightfield by Gonzales who
scored when the pitcher failed to control the ball. Landon Chavez
also got a four-bagger on his hit into rightfield when the pitcher
was unable to control the ball.
The Pirates took advantage of the deadball rule throughout the game,
stretching their hits into extra-bases as often as they could until
the ball was thrown into and controlled by the pitcher which ends
the play.
The Pirates went through their nine-batter lineup again in the second
inning to open up a 13-1 cushion. Armando Mondragon and Ryan Ramirez
each tagged RBI triples in the eight-hit inning. Ninth batter Nash
Jaramillo capped the inning by scoring on his hit when the cutoff
throw was missed by the shortstop.
The Dodgers took their lead from the Pirates to add some more runs
in the third inning.
Lead-off hitter Mateo Tafoya hit a pop up which dropped in shallow
rightfield and kept running, prompting a pair of errant throws which
allowed him to score. Shank lined a one-out single past an outstretched
shortstop then scored later on Garcia's hit into leftfield. Shank
ran past third and scored as third basman Jaime Gallegos was trying
to get to the base before the throw came in from leftfielder Brad
Dameron.
Garcia, who made it all the way to third, scored on Keenan Nevayaktewa's
single into left field to make it a 13-4 Grants lead.
Grants put together its third consecutive nine-batter inning, scoring
six more runs on six hits in the bottom half of the second.
Melonas and Dameron each scored on their own hits courtesy of a pair
of missed cutoff throws. Gonzalez' homerun that cleared the rightfield
fence, 160-feet from home plate, by at least ten feet highlighted
the inning.
Needing six runs to prevent the game from being ended on the ten-run
mercy rule, the Dodgers were only able to come up four as they were
eliminated.
Shank and Garcia each hit 3-for-3 to account for half of the Dodgers'
12 hits.
Gonzalez, who came into the tournament with two homeruns on his home
ballfield (190 feet), was one of five hitters who went 3-for-3 from
the plate. Benny Murrietta, Dameron, Chavez and Armando Mondragon
were the others. Melonas was 2-for-3.
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Fort Defiance couple escapes pack of
dogs
Jim Maniaci
Diné Bureau
FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. — A young Fort Defiance couple is lucky
to be alive after a pack of dogs attacked them. Navajo police said
the vicious assault was without provocation.
Philmore Chee, 19, of Window Rock was walking his 17-year-old Pinedale
girlfriend home around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday on Water Tank Road when
a pack of dogs repeatedly bit them and tore their clothes off, according
to the Window Rock Law Enforcement District report.
The pack tried to drag the girl into a nearby water-filled ditch,
the report said, but Chee and the girl battled back against the canines,
and the girl began her escape to a nearby home to call police. Her
unidentified mother heard her daughter's screams and joined the battle
against the dogs.
According to the reports, the dogs then gave up and returned to their
home at the John and Darlene Pino residence before police and emergency
medical units arrived, the officer's report said...
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Grants eliminates Gallup Rockies
James Staley
Staff Writer
GALLUP — Three teams are left to vie for the championship of
the Roberto Clemente Machine Pitch state tournament after Friday night's
set of rain-soaked fourth round games at Veteran's Memorial Complex.
The Grants Pirates (20-2) and Las Cruces Cardinals (27-1) earned their
way to a spot on Saturday's championship bracket with wins in the
late games. The Gallup Diamondbacks won earlier in the day and will
join Grants and Las Cruces.
Saturday at 10 a.m. Gallup will battle Las Cruces, the only team still
undefeated in tournament play, for a berth into the title game versus
Grants. The Diamondbacks and Pirates climbed their way out of the
loser's bracket and will each be eliminated with the next loss. The
Cardinals must lose twice to be eliminated...
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Phoenix rider feeling lucky after first round
8th Annual Wild Thing Championship
Santiago Ramos
Staff Sports Writer
CHURCH ROCK — Never mind it was Friday the 13th. Competing
in his first Wild Thing competition, Phoenix, Arizona bull rider
Bo Vocu was feeling pretty luck during the 8th Annual Wild Thing
Championship Bull Riding.
The 26-year-old Vocu said he was lucky that he made it to Red Rock
State Park for the first night of the popular two-performance bull
riding competition which he is leading with an 85 score. Vocu said
he just barely avoided a serious accident when the truck he was
driving up from Phoenix to Gallup for the bull riding competition
had a blowout on one of the Firestone tires near Camp Verde, Ariz.
After replacing the flat, Vocu got back on the road before pulling
into Red Rock State Park just in time for Friday's performance.
Secondly, Vocu, who won the bull riding long go during last month's
Gallup Lions Club Rodeo at Red Rock State Park, continued his strong
showing at Red Rock State Park. Vocu pushed his bull Copenhagen
Abracadabra to an 85 score to grab the first day lead for the $5,000
cash first prize payoff...
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Pina key in stopping South
AAA North-South All-Star Football
Michael Peretti
Staff Sports Writer
LOVINGTON — Big plays made late in the game by area players
helped the North keep their lead and hold on to a 24-7 victory over
the South in the AAA North-South All-Star football game Friday at
Lovington High School.
Representing area schools were 12 players. The North players included:
Chris Green, Adam Pina, Michael Lambson and Phillip Elkins all of
Thoreau; Leland Ramone of Wingate; Brandon Bull, Ambrose Lee and
Fabian Talley of Shiprock; and Kyle Leslie and Jonathan Perry of
Tohatchi. Area players representing the South were Wade Pynes and
Travis Allen of Grants.
Pina caused two fumbles and recovered one all in the fourth quarter
to stop three South drives. Pina also pressured the South quarterbacks
and had two sacks and one tackle for a loss...
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Sheriff's office fears freeze
Andrea Egger
Staff Writer
GALLUP — The McKinley County government is considering a hiring
freeze at the Sheriff's Department in the county's effort to help
balance its budget.
In the preliminary budget the county sent to the state Department
of Finance and Administration, the county's list of expected expenditures
for the fiscal year is $679,000 greater than the county's revenue,
said Finance Director Judie Krauklis. Krauklis is also serving as
the acting county manager while County Manager Irvin Harrison is
attending the National Association of Counties annual conference
in Philadelphia.
Krauklis said the county is not in the hole with the $679,000, the
county still has its $1.7 million in reserves.
Sheriff's Capt. Donna Goodrich said deputies have been panicking
over the hiring freeze and the fact that the county is considering
cutting back hours for deputies and making the department less than
a 24-hour department...
Navajo TANF program gets wide support
Larry Di Giovanni
Staff Writer
WINDOW ROCK — The Navajo Nation TANF program has received the
support of tribal council delegates, a main reason the program will
be ready to serve about 9,000 families starting Oct. 1, its directors
say.
"This is a new program and I know there's a lot of expectations
out there," program Director Alex Yazza said.
TANF, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, is a nine-part
program that's part of the Welfare Reform Act passed by Congress
in 1996. Among its nine components are temporary cash assistance
for income-eligible persons and their families, supplemental security
income, child care, child nutrition and food stamps/commodities
distribution...
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Deaths
Little John Patton Sr.
MARIANO LAKE — Graveside services for Little John Patton Sr.,
84, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, July 16, on private family land,
Mariano Lake. Family members will officiate.
Patton died July 11 in Phoenix. He was born Jan. 4, 1917, in Mariano
Lake into the Start of the Red Streak People Clan for the Salt People
Clan.
Patton was employed with the railroad, coal mines, BIA as a bus driver,
the gravel pits and was a rancher. He was a roadman for the Native
American Church. His hobby was attending Thoreau Hawks basketball
and baseball games and their wrestling matches.
Survivors include his sons, Ervin Payton of Burrego Pass, Ivan Payton
of Haystack, Little John Payton Jr. and Ovin Payton of Mariano Lake,
Melvin Payton of Crownpoint, Norman Payton of Ganado, and Peter Payton
of Farmington; daughters, Evangeline Kee of Mariano Lake, Geraldine
Payton of Crownpoint, Nora Payton of Gallup and Sarah Yazzie of Thoreau;
brother, Chee John of Mariano Lake; sister, Betty Davis of Mariano
Lake; 37 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.
Patton was preceded in death by his wife, Bessie Patton; parents,
John and Dih'hibah' Payton; sons, Alfred Payton and Sherman Payton;
daughter, Ethel Payton; and sisters, Helen Jim and Lucille Pajarito.
Pallbearers will be Delbert Davis, Freddie Kee, Douglas Payton, Ivan
Payton, Kevin Payton, and Victor Yazzie.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements.
Marie Lincoln Yazzie
STEAMBOAT, Ariz. — Graveside services for Marie Yazzie, 68, will
be held at 10 a.m. Monday, July 16, at a family plot, Steamboat.
Yazzie died July 11 in Steamboat. She was born Nov. 29, 1932, in Ganado
into the Black Streak Wood People Clan for the Tangle People Clan.
Yazzie's hobbies included sewing, crocheting, and antique shopping
and collecting.
Survivors include her sons, Stanley K. Smith, Preston Johnson, Ricky
N. Johnson and Raymond K. Yazzie; daughters, Lorraine Brown, Marilyn
Barber and Freda Yazzie; sister, Margaret Barker; 10 grandchildren;
11 great-grandchildren and 10
great-great-grandchildren.
Yazzie was preceded in death by her parents, Tom and Mary Lincoln;
brothers, James Lincoln and David Lincoln; and sisters, Lillian Chee
Nez, Agnes Holtsoi and Ella Avery.
The family will receive family and friends at the family residence,
Steamboat.
Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements.
Vernon Mason
SUNDANCE — Services for Vernon Mason, 28, will be announced at
a later date.
Mason died July 13 in Sundance. He was born Dec. 14, 1972, in Gallup
into the Coyote Pass People Clan for the Tangle People Clan.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
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