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The tension between border town police and Navajos is real. And these people are trying to change that.

Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission says conflicts stretch back to the 1840s.

(Courtesy of Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries) Police officers with helmets and batons on a road near the Navajo protest march in Farmington, New Mexico, 1974. Tension between police and Native people have gone on for decades.