Navajo Nation buys 300-acre town in New Mexico

Tuesday, April 10, 2007  

As of 10am this morning, the Navajo Nation gained a new property -- the 300-acre town of Counselor, New Mexico.

The tribe bought the entire town for a reported $1.25 million. It includes a trading post, church, school, dormitory, playground and gym.

Counselor was founded in the 1930s by Jim and Ann Counselor, who opened the trading post. For decades, Navajo sheep herders would exchange livestock for clothes and food. The Counselors eventually sold the business, which is being taken over by another company.

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