Tribal leaders endorse Obama
By Deswood Tome, NN-WO, Special to the Observer

Thursday, September 25, 2008

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. on Sept. 18 endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president at a meeting of tribal leaders from across the country.

"I am honored today to stand before you, as the elected leader of the Navajo people, to introduce the next president of the United States - Barack Obama," said President Shirley before a room full of some 100 leaders at the Indian Pueblo Culture Center in Albuquerque.

"For eight years, we have lived with federal policies that erode our culture and language and, therefore, attack our very identity as Native people," President Shirley said.

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