Chee Dodge

Henry Chee Dodge (c. 1860–1947), also known in Navajo by his nicknames ("Mister Interpreter") and ("Red Boy"), was the last official Head Chief of the Navajo Tribe from 1884 until 1910, the first Tribal Chairman of the Navajo Business Council from 1922 until 1928, and chairman of the then Navajo Tribal Council from 1942 until 1946. He was the father of Thomas Dodge, who served as Tribal Council chairman from 1932 until 1936, There was speculation that he was born three years earlier and was the son of the US Indian Agent Henry L. Dodge at the Navajo Agency. The senior Dodge was known in Navajo as . – a position and title that had no basis in traditional Navajo concepts of governance. He was presented to the people as "".

Appointed as the first chairman of the Navajo Business Council in 1922, Dodge managed to secure over one million dollars in royalties for the Navajo Nation related to mineral rights on their lands. He gave in to demands to give oil-drilling rights to Anglo-companies. Most Navajo were unaware of the council's functions. Critics said that it was simply to rubber-stamp the decisions of the local Indian commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

In the subsequent election of 1946, Dodge was chosen as vice-chairman. He died in January 1947 at the age of 86 with Father Berard Haile conducting the funeral mass for Dodge.

Legacy Chee Dodge Elementary School in Yatahey, New Mexico, and Chee Dodge Boulevard near Gallup are named in Dodge's honor.