Echohawk: I’ll visit Navajo again
Assistant Secretary of the Interior says 'what we need to do is travel to Indian Country'

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau

WINDOW ROCK — Assistant Secretary of the Interior Larry Echohawk grew up in the Navajo Nation border town of Farmington from the time he was a year old. He learned first-hand about the issues on Navajoland, and now he hopes to make a difference.

Echohawk recently visited Window Rock with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar of Colorado and Solicitor Hilary Tompkins, a Navajo originally from Ramah.

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