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Table100 t1_j5wi1um wrote

Reply to comment by name_first_name_last in First Navajo woman becomes Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council by AudibleNod

according to other people in this thread and google, ‘first woman’ is a very important figure in navajo mythology, so they were probably trying to avoid being confusing/offensive

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half3clipse t1_j5wniei wrote

It's also just headlinese, attempting to compress important information into a compact headline.

And it's perfectly fine and understandable. Headline conventions do present some syntactic ambiguity at some point, but this is entirely understandable if the reader applies even a fraction of common sense, let alone one that reads the article under the headline.

On an ambiguity scale of 1 to crash blossoms, this is a 3 at most.

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