Peterson Zah, president of the Navajo Nation during tumultuous times in the 1980s has died. He’s being remembered for helping secure long-term benefits for the nation from energy development. Copyright © 2023 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.
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Bill Pitman, Revered Studio Guitarist, Is Dead at 102
When he was 13, his parents split up. His mother joined a firm that made theater costumes. His father gave him guitar lessons, and young Bill played 50-cent gigs with musicians who would later become famous, like the trumpeter Shorty Rogers and the drummer Shelly Manne. But his schoolwork at