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Scope and Contents Summary of notes: Mr. Rollie talks about how the Indian trading post traders helped the Navajos with many needs in their lives, including burying their dead. He also recalls his days working as a community organizer for the Democratic party in the 1930s against the Republican machine in Gallup. He also comments about later decades and issues in New Mexico politics, the mining companys controlling the miners’ votes and the move to have a voter literacy test, which Hispanics opposed in New...