Fort Defiance, Arizona

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• Police blotter: Home-invasion suspect still loose
  

  Police said Monday that the search began Dec. 12 when three officers went to Bennett's residence in Inscription House, Ariz., to arrest him on the warrant.

• Parents frustrated at Head Start closures
  

  So far, such regulations have caused an employment drought in the tribe's program.

• Saving Money
  

  DNA People's Legal Services managing attorney Zackeree Kelin looks over paperwork with Rosie Becenti at the Fort Defiance DNA office in Window Rock on Wednesday.

• Arizona Myeloma Network Golf Tournament
  

  Arizona Myeloma Network, AzMN, is holding their 4th Annual Arizona Myeloma Charity Golf Tournament, on Friday, November 7th at the Orange Tree Golf Resort in Scottsdale with a shotgun scramble at 12:00. A box ...

• Navajos take over Apache County government
  

  A slate of Din candidates, all Democrats running unopposed, will be sworn into county offices come January.

• Case of the bubonic plague found in the Navajo Nation
  

  October 23rd, 2008 by Eric Owen In the mid-14th century, a flea-born disease known as the Black Death ravaged Central Asia and Europe.

• Police blotter: SSun glare blamed for Tsayatoh fatality
  

  14 in a hit and run that occurred in front of the Tsayatoh Fire Station. Police said Albert Spencer was headed for Gallup about 9:17 a.m. when he hit Westley Tom, 32, of Tsayatoh, who was walking along the ...

• Arizona cancer conference targets Navajos
  

  John Wayne the movie star may have done his best work using Monument Valley on the Navajo Reservation as a backdrop.

• Cancer awareness conference to focus on Native American needs
  

  The Arizona Myeloma Network is planning its first cancer awareness conference Oct.

• Fort Defiance Cancer Awareness and Advocacy Conference
  

  Name : Bill Austin Email: bill@azhttp.com Site: http://www.azhttp.com/ About: Bill Austin is a Systems Engineering professional working in the Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations industry in the greater ...

• Police blotter: Baby dies in vehicle crash
  

  The accident occurred Saturday at about 10:28 p.m. on State Route 264 just north of MacDonald's Restaurant.

• Police blotter: 2 arrested in Tuba City gun shop burglary
  

  Editor's note: These summaries are taken from the official reports filed by police officers with the Window Rock headquarters.

• Man sentenced for dealing meth on Rez
  

  A Navajo Nation man was sentenced to four years in federal prison this week for intent to distribute meth.

• Group learns of Navajo culture
  

  During a mission trip to Arizona this summer, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Associate Rector Wallace Marsh and about 20 of his high school church patrons got to see a very different nation.

• Group learns of Navajo culture
  

  During a mission trip to Arizona this summer, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Associate Rector Wallace Marsh and about 20 of his high school church patrons got to see a very different nation.

• New Mexico Horse Tests Positive for West Nile Virus
  

  A horse from McKinley County, N.M., has tested positive for West Nile virus, the first positive test for the virus in a horse this year.

• New Mexico Horse Tests Positive for West Nile Virus
  

  A horse from McKinley County, N.M., has tested positive for West Nile virus, the first positive test for the virus in a horse this year.

• Gas price fears
  

  As acting director of Navajo Nation Fleet Management, he needs to know how much the price of gasoline is going up because that will give him an idea of how much the tribe will be paying in the near future for ...

City Description

Fort Defiance (Navajo: Tséhootsooí) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The population was 4,061 at the 2000 census. Fort Defiance was established in 1851 to create a military presence in Diné bikéyah (Navajo territory). It was built on valuable grazing land that the federal government then prohibited the Navajo from using. As a result, the appropriately named fort experienced intense fighting, culminating in an unsuccessful 1860 attack by the Navajo. The next year, at the onset of the Civil War, the army abandoned Fort Defiance. Continued Navajo raids in the area led Brigadier General James H. Carleton to send Kit Carson to impose order. Carleton's "solution" was brutal: thousands of starving Navajo were forced to the Long Walk and interned near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, much of their livestock was destroyed. The Navajo Treaty of 1868 allowed those interned to return to a portion of their land, and Fort Defiance was reestablished as an Indian agency that year. Fort Defiance is located at 35°44′31″N 109°4′0″W / 35.74194, -109.06667 (35.742032, -109.066739), on the Defiance Plateau about 4 miles north of Window Rock, Arizona. According to

City Contained By:

• Arizona
• Apache County

Timezones:

• Mountain Time Zone

Size:

• 15.798927473 km squared

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