A Navajo soldier remembers the fight to stop communism

By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau

WINDOW ROCK — During last week’s hearing on indigenous rights before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Chairman Daniel Akaka treated the audience to “‘Geronimo did not die in Pakistan,” a film by Ryan Red Corn and Dallas Goldtooth. The film refers to the use of Geronimo’s name in the U.S. operation to kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

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