Annual event in Churchrock celebrates freedom
Old meets new as a shirt and jeans wearing Nazabah Beyale, center, reacts after being bumped as Tysha Nez, in a traditional yellow dress, reaches for the ball in a game of outdoor volleyball during the 2011 Treaty Day celebration in Churchrock Navajo Chapter on Wednesday. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Adron Gardner

By Vida Volkert
Staff writer

CHURCHROCK — As Edith Livingston patted a ball of dough and made it into a flat circle, her daughter screamed, “Let’s go, Edith. Let’s go, mom.” The 62-year-old woman then smiled, and carefully eased the flattened dough into the hot oil that was boiling in a skillet over a fire on the ground.

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