PETER MACDONALD, CHAIRMAN OF THE NAVAJO TRIBAL COUNCIL, AT A NEWS CONFERENCE AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB.Peter MacDonald (born 1928) is a Native American politician and the only four term Chairman of the Navajo Tribe. He was born in Arizona, U.S.A., served the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II as a Navajo Code Talker, and was first elected Navajo tribal chairman in 1970.In 1989 he was removed from office by a deeply divided Navajo Council, pending the results of federal criminal investigations instigated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. MacDonald was sent to federal prison in 1990 for violations of US law, not Navajo Nation laws. Within several years he was convicted of more U.S. federal crimes, including fraud, extortion, riot, bribery, and corruption.(WIKIPEDIA)
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