Place

Navajo Nation

The largest U.S. Indian reservation, in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, with a tribal government at Window Rock.

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Peter MacDonald Oct 1990 bribery, conspiracy and ethics violations; sentenced to nearly six years and fined $11,000 Scholarship & press 1 2

The Window Rock riot, 20 July 1989 its Tribal Council suspended the chairman in 1989 after corruption accusations in Senate hearings Scholarship & press 2

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MacDonald sentenced, fined for bribery, ethics violations, Deseret News, 23 Oct 1990. Scholarship & press
Suspended Navajo Chairman Peter MacDonald was sentenced in tribal court Monday to nearly six years in the tribal jail and fined $11,000 for bribery, conspiracy and ethics violations.
Ex-Navajo Leader Guilty of Conspiracy, Burglary, Los Angeles Times (archive copy), 14 Nov 1992. Scholarship & press
MacDonald, who served as chairman in 1971-83 and 1987-89, already is serving a six-year sentence for convictions in tribal court on bribery, conspiracy and ethics violations.
The clash culminated an unsuccessful five-month struggle by MacDonald to reverse a 1989 decision by the Tribal Council to suspend him after he was accused during U.S. Senate hearings of corruption.
Arizona v. Navajo Nation, No. 21-1484, Supreme Court of the United States, 22 Jun 2023. Primary record
The Navajos filed suit seeking to compel the United States to take affirmative steps to secure needed water for the Tribe—including by assessing the Tribe’s water needs, developing a plan to secure the needed water, and potentially building pipelines, pumps, wells, or other water infrastructure.

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