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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A 13-year-old Navajo boy stabbed and orphaned in a November attack in Las Vegas is going to be raised by a university professor-turned-school principal in Salt Lake City.
That's after representatives of the Navajo Nation withdrew objections today (Monday) and a Clark County Family Court judge granted custody of Shiloh Edsitty to Vivian Powell.
Tribal officials say they're satisfied Powell will raise the boy with the knowledge of his heritage and culture.
Powell says she'll leave her position at Saint Bonaventure University in upstate New York and her family will move to Salt Lake City.
There, she'll be an elementary school principal and Edsitty can be closer to Navajo relatives in Arizona.
Powell was a close friend of Edsitty's mother -- Teresa Tilden -- and has known Edsitty since he was an infant.
Tilden was 31 when she was killed November eighth. Edsitty survived by running from an apartment with a butcher knife sticking out of his chest.
The mother's boyfriend -- 29-year-old James Menor Valdez -- was arrested and is awaiting trial in the attack.
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