After the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, the so-called end of the Indian Wars, cultural clashes between whites and American Indians still took place. Take a 1913 incident in New Mexico. The Navajos call it the Uprising at Beautiful Mountain. Whites call it the Navajo War of 1913. The event would almost be comical if not for its disregard for human rights. At the time, William Shelton was superintendent of the San Juan Agency, the Navajo reservation outpost in northwest New Mexico. The man the In


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