From Alamo, it's 220 miles to Window Rock, Ariz., the Navajo Nation's capital. There's only one good road in and out of Alamo: Narrow, roller-coaster State Highway 169, which winds 30 miles through the red-dirt, pi–on-dotted outback of east-central New Mexico. It is detached and isolated from the better-known, main Navajo Nation, which sprawls across the Four Corners area. T'iistsoh sikaadi, the Navajo name for Alamo, is home to about 2,000 tribal members. "Even some of our own people in the Navajo Nation don't know where we are here," adds George Apachito, Alamo's stocky, serious and low-key chapter president. "Or 'lamogordo,' " the city in southern New Mexico. Many New Mexicans are unsure where Alamo is, says Alamo Chapter Community Services Coordinator Michael Secatero. ALAMO CHAPTER, Navajo Nation, N.M.- Click on the "FAQs" link at the Web site for the Alamo Navajo Indian Reservation and you'll find only one question: "Where is Alamo?"
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