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The life and death of Nathan Werito.
Last Watch
The closest Navajo Police station to Nathan Werito’s home appeared unstaffed when City Weekly visited in July. Zach Abend In the northwestern part of the Navajo Nation, blue sky stretches over the horizon and dwarfs the area’s modest buildings. Yet to those who knew him, Nathan Werito seemed even larger than the high desert landscape he inhabited.
His cousin, Lakotah Begaye, remembers Werito climbing onto the side of her home to repair her air conditioner.
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