ADAHOONILIGII, Window Rock, Arizona, Feb. 1, 1944  This is the volume 1, number 7 issue.
This was a Navajo-language monthly newspaper published in the Southwestern United States from 1943 to 1957. After the "Cherokee Phoenix", operating from 1828 to 1834, it was the second regularly circulating newspaper in the United States that was written in a Native American language. It was the first newspaper to be published in Navajo and the only one to have been written entirely in Navajo (although a few items in the masthead are in English).
This issue brings to mind the 2002 movie "Windtalkers" which focused on Navajo-speaking Native Americans who were used to send secret messages in both World War I and II. Although Navajo speakers are more commonly known, there were 14 other Native American languages used during wartime as well.
This is a very rare issue and the only issue we have located in our 50+ years.
Complete as a broadside newspaper, printed on one side only, and of folio size. Very nice condition.