Raymond Nakai Collection, 1963-1988?

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Raymond Nakai Collection, 1963-1988?

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The Raymond Nakai Collection contains material documenting his activities as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963 - xxxx. The collection consists of speeches, correspondance, photographs, scrapbooks, news clippings, and reports.

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Nakai, Raymond

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Raymond Nakai, a Navajo Indian, was born in 1918 in Lukachukai, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Nakai was a Navy veteran, serving from 1942-1945. Nakai worked as a radio announcer for KCLS in Flagstaff, Arizona until 1953-1962. Nakai worked at the Navajo Ordnance Depot for seventeen years prior to being elected tribal chairman in 1963. Raymond Nakai is noted as being the first modern Navajo political leader serving as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963-1971. As ...