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"Chindi" is how the Navajo describe the evil spirits they believe inhabit the bones and possessions of the dead — spirits that can poison a person or place if they are disturbed, spirits that some believe have poisoned this town.

Archeologists like Hurst say it's up to them to try and change "hearts and minds." But there many who believe the arrests have only hardened the very hearts and minds that need to change.

Lyman, a burly, ruddy-faced man of 62, penned "Paradise Has Been Raided Again" on June 10, the day of the raids. He reads it aloud, voice cracking with emotion.

The next day, the doctor killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning. Another defendant, from Santa Fe, N.M., shot himself a week later.

The suicides horrified this town of about 4,000 with many bitterly blaming the government.

Here, in one of the country's richest archaeological regions — where the ruins of ancient pueblos are tucked into towering sandstone cliffs and "pot-hunting" has been a way of life for more than a century, how should the past be protected and preserved? And who, if anyone, owns that past?

Seventeen of those arrested were from Blanding, including some of the town's most prominent citizens: Harold Lyman, 78, grandson of the pioneering Mormon family that founded the town. David Lacy, 55, high school math teacher and brother of the county sheriff.

With bullet proof vests and guns,

But the recriminations and grief masked more complicated questions — questions that have dogged the town for decades.

Even Navajo patients who revered Redd spoke sorrowfully of how the chindi had ruined his life. After the raids, authorities removed two moving vans full of artifacts from the Redd home. And though many voiced unhappiness about the arrests, there was little doubt the Redds — who had been charged with grave digging in the past — knew they were breaking the law. Redd's wife, Jeanne, was sentenced to three years probation and a $2,000 fine after pleading guilty to seven counts of trafficking in stolen artifacts and theft of artifacts on government and tribal lands.

It is a felony to take any artifact from public land. There are also laws requiring the repatriation of human remains and sacred ceremonial artifacts to tribes.

In his senior center office, case worker Austin Lyman voices vehement opinions about the raids in his own unique way:

But laws can't change attitudes or traditions or make much of a dent in a thriving black market where prehistoric Indian artifacts can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. And in the vast cliffs and mesas of these parts, where a handful of rangers from the National Parks Service and the Bureau of Land Management oversee millions of acres, prosecution is practically impossible.

"Like Jackals from hell they came,

And 60-year-old Jim Redd, along with his wife and adult daughter.

They came to arrest old men."

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