sentences:  In 1983 he became chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council at Window Rock, the governing body for the Navajo reservation headquartered there.He served in that position until 1987, when he became engaged in fundraising for the Navajo Education and Scholarship Foundation.In 1989 and 1990 he directed a regional office for Save the Children, and in 1990 was elected president of the new Navajo Nation, the first person to be elected to that position.