50 Years Ago | Indian Center manager faces mayor’s effort to oust him

Posted by on May 26, 2022 · Leave a Comment 

Sometimes there are stories that fester for a long time behind the scenes. They don’t make the newspapers until they reach a boiling point.

Back in 1972, one such case involved Herb Blatchford, manager of the Gallup Indian Center, and Emmett “Frankie” Garcia, who had been elected a month ago to be the city’s mayor.

During his campaign, Garcia had made some veiled threats that, if elected, he would make changes at the Indian Center.

I mentioned this in one of my stories about the fact but when I asked Garcia what his problem was with the management of the center, he declined to go into detail, saying only that Blatchford needed to be removed as the center’s manager.

I had been covering the Navajo Tribe for about a year by this time and I had interviewed Blatchford a number of times, mainly to get a feel about the anger Navajo activists were exhibiting about discrimination by Gallup businesses. Read more

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