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Show Join The Aqualantes Last week at Window Rock, Arizona, a poor but proud people demonstrated that they are true citizens of the United States. These people, the Navajo Indians staged a war dance and held a scries of meetings with their "pale-face" neighbors from Colorado, Colo-rado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico Mex-ico and Arizona. . The event was held in connection connec-tion with meetings of the Upper Colorado River Grass Roots, Inc., a citizens committee supporting the Colorado River Storage project. pro-ject. The Navajos contributed $10,-000 $10,-000 toward a .public information program about the project. This is a great deal of money to a poor people, but the Navajos are members of the Grass Roots organization or-ganization and they wanted to help as best they could. The reason this is noteworthy is that by acting as citizens In a democratic manner the Indians not only gave a tremendous push I to a worthy project, but they al- iso showed the way for the rest of the citizens of our area. The Colorado River Storage project needs support. Misinform ed people are seeking to halt the project. Yet it's a project that benefits not only our western states but the entire nation. You can help not by performing a war dance such as the Navajos did. But you can help by con. tributing $1-00 or more to the information in-formation campaign sponsored by , the Grass Roots citizens group. You can become an Aqualante , (water vigilante), learn about the project and tell others about lit. ! The Navajos have done their jpart. Now it's up to us. Won't you become an Aqualante, too? |