"Those are structural issues that are baked into the psyche of Farmington," said Melanie K. Yazzie (Diné), assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota.
"Border towns are places that really help us to see how settler order operates," she said.
In 1974, one such 'game' unraveled into triple homicide, when three white Farmington teens tortured three Diné men in a canyon outside a wealthy neighborhood.
They took Benjamin Benally, John Harvey and David Ignacio into Chokecherry Canyon, up a four-wheel trail behind churches and expensive houses overlooking the city.
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