The Associated Press
When reports surfaced that the National Security Agency had been monitoring the cellphones of world leaders, Arizona blogger Andrew Curley wrote that the Navajo Nation’s president was furious his phone wasn’t among those tapped.
The truth is, Navajo President Ben Shelly does not want anyone listening to his phone calls.
But he and other American Indian leaders constantly do battle with the federal government for recognition that tribes govern themselves. Curley used his blog, a riff off the popular satirical newspaper The Onion, to highlight their cause in a tongue-in-cheek way.
