Zah later worked as an adviser to the president of ASU. He served in the post 15 years and left in 2010. Inspiring Arizona’s youth, especially Navajos, to attend college was his passion.

Peterson Zah, who guided one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. through a politically tumultuous time, has died. Ex-Navajo President Zah guided by love for people, family ...

Peterson Zah was born to Henry and Mae Zah on Dec. 2, 1937, in Low Mountain, a Navajo Nation town in northeast Arizona. After graduating from Phoenix Indian High School in 1958, he earned an ...

Peterson Zah, a monumental Navajo Nation leader who guided the tribe through a politically tumultuous era and worked tirelessly to correct wrongdoings against Native Americans, has died.

Former Navajo chairman and president, Peterson Zah, center, receives a lifetime achievement award on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, at the Navajo Nation casino east of Flagstaff, Ariz.

Peterson Zah died late Tuesday in Fort Defiance, Arizona, surrounded by his family and after a lengthy illness. He was 85.

FILE - Navajo President Peterson Zah is pictured following a news conference after speaking with state health officials in Window Rock, Ariz., June 2, 1993, about the epidemic affecting mainly ...

Zah was the first president elected on the Navajo Nation — the largest tribal reservation in the U.S. — in 1990 after the government was restructured into three branches to prevent power from ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Peterson Zah, a monumental Navajo Nation leader who guided the tribe through a politically tumultuous era and worked tirelessly to correct wrongdoings against Native ...

Under Zah’s leadership, the tribe established a now multi-billion-dollar Permanent Fund in 1985 after winning a court battle with Kerr McGee that found the tribe had authority to tax companies ...

Under Zah’s leadership, the tribe established a now multi-billion-dollar Permanent Fund in 1985 after winning a court battle with Kerr McGee that found the tribe had authority to tax companies ...